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Producer John Frost announced today that a Perth season of Driving Miss Daisy has been added to the current Australian tour, playing at His Majesty's Theatre from June 8 for only 12 performances.

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The Diabolo act from the critically acclaimed OVO will be performed to lunchtime shoppers at Melbourne Central.

WICKED, the international Broadway musical blockbuster, returns to the Australasian region later this year as part of its 10th Anniversary Year, playing Auckland for the first time at The Civic Theatre from September 2013, and returning to its original Australian home at the Regent Theatre, Melbourn

Captivating Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko is taking her highly anticipated new album I Awake on the road with her in a big way in February 2013 when she performs at Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall at 8pm tonight, 14 February as part of a national tour.

Due to unprecedented demand, Sir David Attenborough is revisiting Australia to again appear live on stage in his not-to-be-missed tour of Sir David Attenborough - A Life on Earth.

Six dancers are in the running to take home Australian ballet's highest honour, with the 2013 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award (TBDA) nominations announced today in Melbourne.

Direct from Berlin and the headline act of The Famous Spiegeltent from tonight, 12 February - Sunday 3 March 2013, The Trip is a daring, tongue-in-cheek circus show featuring seductive circus performances, including a contortion act inside a disco ball and a slippery acrobatics routine in a fish bow

Adam Hills is back from the UK and will be hitting the road with a national tour of Happyism - his highly anticipated first solo show in three years.

In a very special celebration of the Chinese New Year, The People's Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of Culture and the Shanghai Municipal Government join the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, China's premier international performing arts festival, and the China National Opera House to pre

Producers John Frost and Phil Bathols today announced that Julie Andrews, one of the most beloved stage and screen performers of all time, will visit Australia in May this year for the first time ever, to appear on stage in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne.

The myth that Australians can only be found at the beach in January was again blown out of the water with audiences flocking in huge numbers to "slip, slop…sit in the theatre" said Arts Centre Melbourne Chief Executive Judith Isherwood today.

Adam Hills is back from the UK and will be hitting the road with a national tour of Happyism - his highly anticipated first solo show in three years.

The Butterfly Club announced on 11 January that it had achieved its $130,000 target to relocate from South Melbourne to the city centre.

The Australian Ballet kicks off its 2013 Melbourne season with the return of Telstra Ballet in the Bowl.

Phillip Adams and guest choreographer Brooke Stamp's distinctive double bill And All Things Return To Nature Tomorrow has its world premiere in March 2013 at the Lawler at MTC's Southbank Theatre.

Direct from Ireland and one of the headline acts of The Famous Spiegeltent from tonight, Friday 7 February - Monday 10 February 2013, Ponydance Anybody Waitin? is an over-the-top dance-meets-comedy show that is simultaneously hilarious and anarchic, featuring a four-member Irish troupe who with thei

They're Playing Our Song, a production by Christine Harris and HIT Productions, Australia's Premier Theatre Touring Company will play Saturday 23 March, 8pm at Athenaeum Theatre.

As part of the 2013 Adelaide Fringe children's program Holden Street Theatre Co.

Nerds rule in School Dance, the new comedy by Australia's Windmill Theatre.

The best way to enjoy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is take someone under 10 with you to see it.

Sydney songwriter Brendan Maclean, soon to star on the silver screen in the upcoming film The Great Gatsby; opera star and Spicks and Specs regular Antoinette O'Halloran; a new dance show from So You Think You Can Dance's Jason Coleman and his Ministry of Dance Production House; Melbourne theatre fa

The 93 year-old dame, The Famous Spiegeltent, will open her doors with an Opening Night Gala on Wednesday 6 February on Arts Centre Melbourne's Forecourt.

StageArt Xposed presents SUGARTOWN, a new musical by Katie Weston, Dean Gourely and Katy Roose, in two special workshop performances.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is an interesting show to define.