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Due to extraordinary demand, new tickets will be released today for the Sydney season of the award-winning musical theatre blockbuster WICKED.

With design by Filipe Reynolds, the Circus Oz big top sets a scene that is equal parts boardwalk vaudeville, smoke-tinged jazz club, and old-school, sawdust in the ring traveling tent.

After a grand entrance to the music world with the runaway success of their debut album last year, the astonishingly operatic, Samoan trio from Auckland, Sol3 Mio, are about to embark on their first ever Australian tour, with tickets going on sale 10am Wednesday 25 June.

Bitch fights and fisticuffs, love triangles, wedding crashing ex-fiances, transient amnesiac husbands and wives who rise from the dead, it could only be a musical version of "The Bold and The Beautiful"!

Chunky Move presents the world premiere of It Cannot Be Stopped, a new work bringing together three of Australia's rising talents, Atlanta Eke, Benjamin Hancock and Paea Leach.

Hayes Theatre Co presents That 90s Show, starring Tom Sharah as part of the Hayes Theatre Co Cabaret season 2014 at on July 6 and July 13 2014.

One of TV's favourite couples will be reunited on stage when William McInnes and Sigrid Thornton pair up for the first time since SeaChange alongside Nathaniel Dean and Zahra Newman for Melbourne Theatre Company's forthcoming production of The Effect, which starts rehearsals next month.

Celebrating five fabulous years, the gender-bending music theatre blockbuster Twisted Broadway returns to Melbourne for one-night-only at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse on Monday 4 August, 2014! Having enjoyed sell-out concerts in previous years, Twisted Broadway is Australia's fastest-growing ch

Food, the delicious play by theatrical marvel Steve Rodgers, comes to Glen Street Theatre next month following sell-out seasons in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Global Creatures confirmed today that Baz Luhrmann's much-loved hit show STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL will open in Melbourne at Her Majesty's Theatre in January 2015.

Arts Centre Melbourne will become the first arts venue in Victoria to host a "relaxed performance" specifically designed for children with Down Syndrome, autism spectrum disorder or sensory and communication disorders.

From the opening moments of this latest revival of Rogers and Hammerstein's iconic musical The King And I, we are transported to the heart of Asia, its intricacies, its nuances, its customs.

Get ready for a hilarious journey into the world of the happy folks who dwell in this sleepy, seaside town.

A uniquely intimate performance experience, come share a meal with David.

In June and July, a colourful line-up of international and local jazz, cabaret and Broadway stars perform musical standards, sparkling cabaret numbers, soulful jazz songs and touching torch songs from the Golden Age of American song as part of Melbourne Recital Centre's 2014 American Songbook Festiv

Sir David Attenborough will appear live on stage in Sydney and Melbourne in November in a brand new show titled Sir David Attenborough -- The Third Dimension.

It was announced today that both leading Australian theatre producer John Frost and Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini have been awarded an AM (Member in the General Division) in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

The much-loved tale of a dingo who catches a wombat and decides to make wombat stew has been cleverly developed into a 'true-blue-dinky-di-big-Aussie-musical' complete with blobs of mud, very fine feathers, creepy crawlies, flies, gumnuts and a big bubbling billycan.

In June and July, a colourful line-up of international and local jazz, cabaret and Broadway stars perform musical standards, sparkling cabaret numbers, soulful jazz songs and touching torch songs from the Golden Age of American song as part of Melbourne Recital Centre's 2014 American Songbook Festiv

Following a five month sold-out season off-Broadway, New York-based Canadian - born rapper Baba Brinkman is preparing to shake up Melbourne with The Rap Guide to Evolution at Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio on Friday 6 June and Saturday 7 June 2014.

Melbourne audiences, visitors and tourists are invited into the astounding world of magician Luke Hocking when he launches his new show Impossible Occurrences on Friday 4th July.

Alex Dimitriades, Steve Bisley and Greg Stone go head to head in the bear-pit of corporate capitalism when David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece rages back on stage at Melbourne Theatre Company 30 years after it was written and first performed by MTC.

The dynamics of the school yard are explored through urban dance and sport to create a visual extravaganza with a powerful social message in The Yard.

This year has been an action-packed one, tour wise.