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As part of NAIDOC Week 2014, the NGV will celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures with its first NGV Culture Camp for teens and a live(ly) performance by the SKIN Choir.

This morning, The Collective announced that it will be the first Australian theatre company to put on a production of Jason Robert Brown's PARADE.

One of Australia's most versatile stage and screen actors, John McTernan, will step into the bear-pit of Melbourne Theatre Company's Glengarry Glen Ross after one of the lead actors, Steve Bisley, had to withdraw due to illness in the play's opening week.

Last nights opening of the reimagined Les Miserables was a defining moment in Australian music theatre.

VOICEBOX, the Festival of Voices' cabaret/alternative late-night festival-within-a-festival, presents a scintillating line-up of national and international musicians over ten days in July.

Literary lunches return to Glen Street Theatre on 25 July with an inspiring story of a teenager's record-breaking flight around the world.

One of Australia's greatest international trailblazers, Maureen Wheeler AO has accepted an invitation to join the Board of the Melbourne Theatre Company announced Chairman Terry Moran AC today.

Darebin City Council's Northcote Town Hall solidifies itself as a thriving hub of independent theatre with the announcement of Speakeasy's Winter/Spring season.

In the neglected storehouse of Australian history, this is one of the definitive stories: at a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the men and women of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve went head-to-head with the Aboriginal Protection Board.

Renowned theatrical producer Cameron Mackintosh just unveiled a Melbourne Arts Walk plaque he generously purchased to honour publicist Suzie Howie for her contribution to the Melbourne theatre scene.

In a rare immersive performance, with the audience seated on stage of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, new media artist Robin Fox and Speak Percussion will perform experimental music work Transducer where the microphone and loudspeaker take centre stage in a Melbourne premiere on at 7.

Award-winning New York harpist and musical theatre actor, RITA COSTANZI, brings her acclaimed show A Score To Settle to Australia in July, appearing at the World Harp Congress in Sydney and The Butterfly Club, Melbourne for a strictly limited season.

Bangarra Dance Theatre will take to the Playhouse stage at Arts Centre Melbourne from 28 August 2014 with the Melbourne Premiere of its new work Patyegarang.

Life Like Company is proud to announce a new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's widely acclaimed, Tony Award winning musical PASSION, playing four nights only at The Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne from 5-8 November, 2014.

First world problems are taking centre stage at Melbourne's The Butterfly Club on 28-29 June in #FirstWorldWhiteGirls, an hilarious new cabaret by Brisbane performers Judy Hainsworth and Kaitlin Oliver Parker.

Melbourne Theatre Company today announced that a dazzling result at the box office in 2013 has helped the company deliver a sound financial result that, accompanied by a series of other achievements, has added a sparkle to the company's Diamond Jubilee celebration.

Melbourne Theatre Company's 2014 Season is now in full flight, leaving no time formid-winter blues, said Artistic Director Brett Sheehy AO today.

Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne has had to postpone the premiere of Les Miserables.

One of Broadway's best musicals, the award winning Guys and Dolls opens on July 19 at the State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne for 10 shows only.

Swing, bop and shake your way to Glen Street Theatre this August for Jazz in the Glen, a full-day festival of jazz in all its diverse and wonderful forms.

American actor/director Frank Ferrante known for his stage performances as legendary comedian Groucho Marx in New York, London and over 400 cities worldwide debuts his 'An Evening With Groucho' in Australia beginning today, June 27th.

Melbourne Theatre Company today announced that a dazzling result at the box office in 2013 has helped the company deliver a sound financial result that, accompanied by a series of other achievements, has added a sparkle to the company's Diamond Jubilee celebration.

As part of NAIDOC Week 2014, the NGV will celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures with its first NGV Culture Camp for teens and a live(ly) performance by the SKIN Choir.

Now close to selling out at the Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre's new show Patyegarang is on its way to Melbourne for a limited season of ten performances.

Now close to selling out at the Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre's new show Patyegarang is on its way to Melbourne for a limited season of ten performances.