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Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Peddling begins a three-week tour on Tuesday 10 May, visiting five regional Victorian performing arts centres and Launceston College in Tasmania following its critically acclaimed season at Southbank Theatre.

New tickets have been released for the Australian premiere of The Book of Mormon at Melbourne's Princess Theatre.

Superstar physicist Professor Brian Cox will make sense of the cosmos when he returns to Australia with a brand new live stage show.

Returning to the Alex Theatre in true form, Joshua Harmon's comedy Bad Jews hits the mark yet again! His exuberant, whirlwind depiction of a grieving family will make you re-evaluate the turn of phrase, 'blood is thicker than water'.

The rich old world sound of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir is given a new youthful dimension with the Brandenburg Young Voices Choir for MOZART REQUIEM: 100 VOICES concert.

Ahead of the Australian Tour of Rock musical WE WILL ROCK YOU, by Queen and Ben Elton (Book), BroadwayWorld - Sydney was given a taste of the show, currently in previews at Sydney Lyric Theatre ahead of Opening Night next Thursday 5th May.

Producers of the Australian tour of the worldwide smash hit musical WE WILL ROCK YOU previously announced the dates and venues for the 2016 Australian national tour.

When you combine powerhouse vocalist SarahLouise Younger with flamboyant entertainer Brendy Ford, the result is a dream team of musical theatre pleasure.

The world's leading ABBA show, Bjorn Again, is returning to its home town, Melbourne, on June 18 AT The Palms at Crown, with a spectacular new show, Arrival Tour 2016.

TEMPEST IN A TEACUP is a living cabinet of curiosities for the modern era, a collection of crazy & unusual mysteries, magic, hypnosis and psychotic circus.

For the first time since its inception, Chunky Move invited Australian dance makers to submit proposals for the ninth edition of Next Move, an initiative unique in scale in Australia that commissions new work, supporting and nurturing the next generation of leading dance makers.

I See Me & Meryl Streep charts the extraordinary life and talents of the most celebrated actress of modern times.

It was announced today that leading Australian musical theatre performer Ben Lewis will return from London to join Australia's very own Witches of Wicked and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of Witches in July.

This April, Dancehouse, Carriageworks and the Keir Foundation present the premieres of eight works by outstanding commissioned artists for the 2016 Keir Choreographic Award (KCA), Australia's first major choreographic award.

After a round of sell-out shows at MICF, Impro Melbourne is proud to bring you the 2016 season of Maestro Impro ! Join us on Sunday evenings at Dr Sugar in Prahran as Impro's heroes join brand new players on stage and show off their talents in a battle for audience approval.

Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement will present the Australian premiere of Mira Fuchs 2 - 12 June 2016.

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Celebrating the music, the magic and all the history - the world's most loved Michael Jackson tribute show, HIStory, is returning to Australia this year with a revamped production and new star, Dantanio.

Girls dressed as boys, using techniques for picking up women to pick up men, all while wearing pink beehives ­ Got it? If not, perhaps you'd better consult Melbourne's hottest cabaret trio The Desperettes for their Butterfly Club season of A LADY'S GUIDE TO THE ART OF BEING A WINGMAN.

TEMPEST IN A TEACUP is a living cabinet of curiosities for the modern era, a collection of crazy & unusual mysteries, magic, hypnosis and psychotic circus.

Five years after the runaway success of SONGS FOR NOBODIES, Joanna Murray-Smith, Bernadette Robinson and Simon Phillips team up once again with PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE a brilliant one woman musical theatre piece returning to Melbourne on Thursday January 21, 2016 for a limited season at the Playhouse, A

World famous fortune teller and psychic, Madam Elbac, is presenting her secret to the happy life at the Butterfly Club this May.

One of the greatest crime novels of our times is given new life thanks to a razor-sharp stage adaptation by award-winning writer Tom Holloway.

One of the most popular works staged by the Company, Swan Lake was created in 2012 to mark The Australian Ballet's 50th anniversary by Resident Choreographer Stephen Baynes'.

Australia's love affair with Irish superstar act Celtic Thunder continues as their current Legacy DVD retains the #1 ARIA chart position today ahead of Andre Rieu and Katy Perry for the sixth week.