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Legendary children's singer-songwriter Peter Combe returns to Melbourne these September School Holidays with a brand new Melbourne-premiere show Wash Your Kids in Orange Juice.

Set in the unknown reaches of outer space, Separation Street is a walking theatrical adventure with a twist: kids are separated from their accompanying adults and taken on their own electrifying journey into a tangible, interactive and walk-through world.

If Shakespeare were alive today, commercial genius that he was, he'd be writing blockbuster musicals - which is exactly what we have him do.

From acclaimed playwright Jane Bodie come two acutely observed one-act plays that delve into the heart of modern relationships.

Acclaimed actress Alison Bell finds herself at the centre of a love triangle in Betrayal, Harold Pinter's most arresting relationship drama.

Lyric Opera's production celebrates Marshall-Hall's important role in making Melbourne's arts scene what it is today and marks 100 years since the composer's passing.

Disney's landmark musical THE LION KING must leave Melbourne at the end of October and all remaining tickets for the season are now onsale.

Award-winning Australian band, The Whitlams are touring throughout September 2015, playing shows in cities across Australia in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne.

The full Australian cast of the splash-hit West End stage production SINGIN' IN THE RAIN has today been announced.

After knock-out seasons at the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Anthony Jeannot is closing the curtains on his critically acclaimed solo show with one final performance at The Butterfly Club.

Composer Erik Griswold and the Australia Art Orchestra team up with all-star musicians and performers of Sichuan, China to create a colourful collage of winds, piano and percussion in Water Pushes Sand at Arts Centre Melbourne on 9 and 10 October.

Australian pop-noir icons My Friend the Chocolate Cake bring their Back-to-Back, Track-for-Track national tour to Melbourne Recital Centre this October for a live best-of in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

Winner of six Tony Awards and 2015 Olivier Award winner for Best Musical Revival, City of Angels is set to thrill and delight Melbourne audiences when it plays at the Playhouse Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, for four shows only from November 5 to November 8.

In March and May, local comedian Michael Shafar (Footy Couch, 3 Little Gigs, 3 Course Comedy, Round Squares) put together two comedy bills that went absolutely ballistic, selling out both shows well before the comics took to the stage.

Geraldine Turner is a true icon of Australian show business.

They Saw a Thylacine / conjures the ghost of one of Australia's lost beauties, the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), in a feisty slice of campfire storytelling.

Following a sell-out season in 2015, the triumphant stage adaption of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest will be returning to Arts Centre Melbourne from 29 January 2016.

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This spring, Melbourne Opera will stage a new production of Gaetano Donizetti's gripping historical drama, Mary Stuart (Maria Stuarda); starring international opera stars Elena Xanthoudakis and Rosamund Illing as the two rival feuding queens.

Before The Spice Girls, before The Supremes…there was The Andrews Sisters.

2015-The much-celebrated musical theatre blockbuster Twisted Broadway returns to Melbourne for one-night-only at Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre on Monday 17 August, 2015.

The Opera Conference is delighted to announce that production is underway in Melbourne on The Divorce.

Artist Matthew Sleeth directs an experimental multimedia performance featuring drones, their pilots and opera singers, combined with a new sound score, laser light design and moving image.

There's no day like today for Highway Run Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co to announce the hugely anticipated cast line up of upcoming 1990's cult musical RENT playing from October 8 at the Hayes Theatre Co.

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the much loved and legendary footy show The Coodabeen Champions, ABC Radio's favourite sons will bring their live show to Arts Centre Melbourne for one day in September to amuse and delight footy fans alike.