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Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has announced the formation of a Brisbane choir that will play a key role in The Hamburg Season.

Five-time Tony Award® and three-time Academy Award® nominee Angela Lansbury and two-time Tony Award® winner and Academy Award® winner James Earl Jones are coming together in Brisbane in Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play Driving Miss Daisy.

SHORT+SWEET Theatre Festival 2012, running from today, 1 - 19 August is back and bigger than ever.

From Thursday 11 - Saturday 27 October, the Melbourne Festival will take up residence at Arts Centre Melbourne, which becomes a hub of activity with over 10 events being staged across its venues.

Chunky Move presents the World Premiere of An Act of Now at the Melbourne Festival this October, the highly anticipated debut work under new Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk.

Close to 50,000 Victorians flocked to Arts Centre Melbourne over the weekend to explore and enjoy the reopening of Hamer Hall after a two-year $135.

The giant installation of pink gladioli, Bouquet, which has captured the imaginations of Victorians during the Hamer Hall Opening Celebrations at Arts Centre Melbourne, makes way today for a new art installation, an enchanted garden to be known as Kaeru.

The producers of Michael Jackson HIStory II, the musical biography of Michael Jackson, have announced a second Adelaide performance to be held in Her Majesty's Theatre on Friday 7 September at 8.

Close to 50,000 Victorians flocked to Arts Centre Melbourne over the weekend to explore and enjoy the reopening of Hamer Hall after a two-year $135.

The next installment of BROADWAY UNPLUGGED will play The Vanguard in Sydney and will feature Daniel Belle, Toby Francis and Marika Aubrey accompanied by Miss.

Get ready to swing next month when Brisbane's own Queensland Pops Orchestra presents the next concert in its 2012 program, Music To Swing By on 18 August in Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC's) Concert Hall.

This month to December, Arts Centre Melbourne presents a series of events, workshops and performances especially designed to engage the youngest members of our community.

Musical theatre superstar Caroline O'Connor will join k.

Back in the 1980's I harboured a small ice dancing obsession.

The second season of Morning Melodies on the main stage of His Majesty's Theatre begins today, 25 July and features music theatre star Lucy Maunder, who recently appeared as Lara in Dr Zhivago opposite Anthony Warlow.

fortyfivedownstairs announces upcoming events: The McNeil Project has critics and audiences raving, Un:sighted is an all abstract affair, and come August we're all ears with a musical smorgasboard set to delight - classical compositions, satirical revue and sing along doo wop tunes.

The winner of the 10th Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia 2012 was announced on Saturday 21 July at Sydney Opera House and awarded to Avan Yu (25) from Canada who played Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody accompanied by the Sydney Symphony.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) proudly presents two special concerts within the annual Kawai Piano Series that will be literally 'music to the ears' of piano music lovers in QPAC's Concert Hall this August.

You don't have to travel to the Barossa Valley to rub shoulders with a leading local winemaker and sample their award winning wines.

After sell-out seasons across an 18 month Australia wide tour, a triumphant tour of New Zealand and a Helpmann Award for Best Contemporary Australian Concert, The Man in Black is returning to Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide for a limited six performance season from 11 - 15 September.

Live Performance Australia (LPA) today announced that a List of Nominations in each of the 41 categories for the Helpmann Awards® will be announced in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, concurrently, on Monday 6 August at 6pm at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Arts Centre, Melbourne and Queensland Perfor

Live Performance Australia (LPA) today announced that a List of Nominations in each of the 41 categories for the Helpmann Awards® will be announced in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, concurrently, on Monday 6 August at 6pm at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Arts Centre, Melbourne and Queensland Perfor

After a successful first half of the year in Arts Centre Melbourne's State Theatre, the Morning Melodies concert series returns to its home in the newly refurbished Hamer Hall.

After a successful first half of the year in Arts Centre Melbourne's State Theatre, the Morning Melodies concert series returns to its home in the newly refurbished Hamer Hall.

To celebrate the Brisbane season of the smash hit musical, JERSEY BOYS - The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) invites audiences to get the full 'Jersey' experience at the newly themed Jersey Trattoria, share a bowl of Frankie Valli's famous meat