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Today Melbourne Theatre Company welcomes 25 students from around Victoria for its annual Youth Scholarship Course.

A well-advised investment in real talent to professionally execute a boutique production is what made Watch This' Company an enjoyable experience.

Ahead of the Australian premiere of The Boy at the Edge of Everything next week, Melbourne Theatre Company is bringing a taste of outer space to Westfield shopping centres with a special family friendly activity in time for the spring school holidays.

With two-time Green Room Award nominee Nick Simpson-Deeks as Robert and Sally Bourne as Joanne.

Adelaide born, Melbourne obsessed, cabaret songstress Anya Anastasia is set to take over the beautiful Melba Spiegeltent for the world premiere season of the darkly humourous, seductive and dangerously witty TORTE E MORT: Songs of Cake and Death.

The supernatural power of love will take Australia by storm when the Broadway and West End hit Ghost The Musical, adapted from the Academy Award-winning film, premieres in Australia in Adelaide on 8 January 2016 before touring nationally.

Amongst a royal palace, magical fairy tale gardens and an opulent Louis XIV's masked ball, the world's most extravagant ballet is awakened to new life by The Australian Ballet's Artistic Director David McAllister, when The Sleeping Beauty has its world premiere tonight 15 September 2015.

The world's most successful dance show explodes onto the Australian stage this September with a spectacular new staging of Michael Flatley's masterpiece - Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games.

The supernatural power of love will take Australia by storm when the Broadway and West End hit GHOST THE MUSICAL, adapted from the Academy Award-winning film, premieres in Australia in Adelaide on 8 January 2016 before touring nationally.

The six finalists for the 2015 Rob Guest Endowment, an award recognising an exceptional, emerging musical theatre performer, have been announced.

Pearl Buck, the Nobel Prize winning author, once wrote that 'if you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

A brand new production of one of the greatest musicals in history, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF starring Australian superstar Anthony Warlow, will open at Melbourne's Princess Theatre on December 29th playing for 6 weeks only.

Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY will soon be presented by Watch This at Fortyfivedownstairs.

Sly Rat Theatre Co-Artistic Director Alan Chambers features alongside Canadian trained, Queensland based actor Marika Marosszeky in the Australian premiere of Andy Harmsen's provocative tale of sex, porn, politics and lust.

Boxed In', in partnership with Scratch Warehouse, VUTC and sponsored by Halffull Studios is a part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2015

A favourite fairytale of children the world over will trot into Melbourne direct from London's West End this summer for the live stage musical The Three Little Pigs, at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse from Saturday 2 January - Sunday 17 January 2016.

A riveting new show from subversive creator/performer Nicola Gunn, Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster is the story of a man, a woman and a duck - it is about the excruciating realms of human behaviour and an attempt to navigate the complexities of trying to become a better person.

Fifteen years ago Lipson's acclaimed solo show, A Large Attendance in the Antechamber, won two Green Room Awards before touring for the next seven years extensively throughout Australia and to festivals in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

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

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Brett Sheehy AO today revealed MTC's 2016 Season - a year of remarkable theatre, entertainment and activity at Victoria's home of live storytelling.

Featuring brand-new, world class illusionists handpicked from across the globe, The Illusionists 1903 promises to transport the audience back to the golden age of magic, a time when conjurers were the true rock stars of the day.

Award-winning performer and writer, Ruth Wilkin is back at Melbourne Fringe with a delicious satire of songbook shows, tribute cabarets and celebrity life.

With not a tutu or tiara in sight, the best dance of the 20th century and the freshest of the 21st combine in The Australian Ballet's 20:21, emerging in Melbourne next month.

Melita Rowston unearths a national fascination and a multitude of stories that may or may not be true as she investigates her personal family connection to the legendary Australian bushranger in 6 DEGREES OF NED KELLY