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An immersive dance performance where performers and audiences alike are invited to 'play pretend', world-premiere Pose Band will let loose imaginations at Northcote Town Hall from Tuesday 29 September - Saturday 3 October, 2015 during the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Much-loved actor Nadine Garner stars in The Weir, Conor McPherson's beautifully crafted, award-winning play that brings together the great Irish tradition of bar room tales and theatre's power as an arena for storytelling.

Acclaimed Australian circus ensemble Circa will perform its wondrous first work for children, Carnival of the Animals, at Arts Centre Melbourne during the September School Holidays.

A hopeless Joe finds himself backstage at the Miss World pageant.

Modern-day masculinity is interrogated in new performance art work by Matthew Adey, Homme, at Northcote Town Hall from Tuesday 29 September - Saturday 3 October, 2015 as part of the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

 After winning the Julie Michael Cabaret Competition at WAAPA, Double D, The Dolly Parton Cabaret will have it's Melbourne debut in the Melbourne Fringe Festival at The Butterfly Club.

Award winning comedian and silly person Simon Godfrey purges the demons of his childhood in an epic one man show with more tomato sauce than is recommended by the Heart Foundation.

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 T O R T E E MORT: Songs of Cake and Death.

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 Production Company produced one of its finest shows in recent memory with George and Ira Gershwin's Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Fergie's "Be Italian" number from hit movie musical Nine gets the gender-bending treatment as the opening for the 2015 Twisted Broadway charity concert.

The legendary rock group Queen today announced that the worldwide smash hit musical WE WILL ROCK YOU will return to Australia for a national tour in 2016.

Famously criticised by Ella Fitzgerald as 'the greatest singer in the world without a voice', German chanteuse and film star Hildegard Knef will find her voice anew in a one-woman-show by April Albert from Wednesday 16 - Saturday 26 September, 2015 at Northcote Town Hall as part of the 2015 Melbourn

Social September encourages everyone to press pause in September - disconnect from our digital lives, and reconnect with each other and ourselves.

Once upon a time in a land far, far, well not that far, but far enough to make it interesting.

Placing Campbell Newman under the microscope in an absurdly epic tale of gladiators, hot tubs and bikies, MKA: Bounty plays Northcote Town Hall from Wednesday 16 - Saturday 26 September, 2015 as part of Darebin Arts' Melbourne Fringe Festival Season.

For one special night on Saturday 22 August, Arts Centre Melbourne will host is first ever sleepover for children aged 8-11 and their families.

Riverside Theatres' annual Spot On Children's Festival returns from 29 September to 4 October with a stellar program of interactive comedy, exciting theatre shows, acclaimed films, and plenty of free activities to inspire and entertain the whole family this spring school holidays.

'Tinserella- Putting the G'Day in Cabaret' is a one-woman comedy cabaret that pays no'tention to any storyline but purely craves to crack you up.

This September OCPAC will bring to life the hit 80s movie Footloose in Kew for 8 shows only

The municipality on the fringes of Melbourne's inner-north, the City of Darebin is poised to provide Melburnians with an authentic 'fringe' experience during the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival from Wednesday 16 - Saturday 3 October, 2015.

MTC Chair Terry Moran AC announced today that Jane Hansen, director of the Little Group and MTC Board member, has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the MTC Foundation.

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 on 15 September 2015.

 Random Musical is a 'one of a kind' performance especially for kids and families from the award-winning creators of Spontaneous Broadway.

After its first year in the new purpose-built space in Collingwood, Circus Oz has built a genuine 'circus hub' where an incredibly diverse range of circus artists gather to train, collaborate and push the boundaries of the art form.