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

Fresh from the sell out success of his last, critically acclaimed, smash hit show, The Fabulous Frances Faye in Australia, cabaret wild child Nick Christo drags his brand new MOTHER-OF-A- SHOW kicking and screaming into town this season with rare cuts of juicy jazz standards, stuffed fat with sticks

To celebrate the re-opening of Melbourne's most-loved concert hall, Arts Centre Melbourne is presenting a program of community-orientated participatory events throughout July - September.

Christmas is re-packaged with scandalous cabaret sparkle by internationally accomplished performers and vocalists Chloe King and Rhoda Lopez.

As the world's most acclaimed Barbra Streisand impersonator, Steven Brinberg is so SIMPLY BARBRA that the star once sent him in her place when she couldn't attend a party.

Already confirmed to return to Australia this September for the Deni Ute Muster, Chugg Entertainment today confirmed that the certified pop sensation, Kelly Clarkson, will also be playing a run of national arena shows on her return to our shores this year.

Pay no attention to the weather, come in out of the cold to fortyfivedownstairs' array of good things - the firestarters of The Burlesque Hour: The Glory Box are sure to get your heart racing or find shelter in the 2012 Victorian Architecture Awards.

Already celebrated as a discoverer and interpreter of other artists' songs, 12-time Grammy Award winner Emmylou Harris has, in the last decade, gained admiration as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive singing.

The 10th Sydney Intentional Piano Competition of Australia (SIPCA) commences next week and music enthusiasts can follow the action as all stages of the competition will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM from Wednesday 4 to Saturday 21 July.

QPAC's Associate Director - Strategy Rebecca Lamoin, is one of ten international arts professionals who have been invited to participate in the 2012-14 DeVos Institute's Summer International Fellowship at the Kennedy Center.

Since their formation in 1995, Tallahassee natives Scott Stapp (vocals), Mark Tremonti (guitar), Brian Marshall (bass) and Scott Phillips (drums), better known as Creed, have gone on to be one of the most successful bands in rock history; selling close to thirty-five million albums and millions of c

If cabaret holds up a mirror, it is the fun house kind.

Adelaide Festival Centre will welcome back the Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids, in the July school holidays, from 12 - 14 July in the Space Theatre.

Following its Sydney premiere on July 2, TWISTED BROADWAY is set to return to its hometown on July 23.

Luckiest Productions presents a sensational double-bill as two internationally acclaimed cabaret performers take up residence at the Chapel this winter weekend.

Sam Strong will be joining the Melbourne Theatre Company as Associate Artistic Director of the on the 1 January, 2013.

30,000 new tickets will be released for sale from 9.

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

Expressions Dance Company's (EDC's) Helpmann and Australian Dance Award winning production, where the heart is returns to the Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) for a strictly limited season from the 10 to 18 August 2012.

On June 22 and 23, Broadway favorite Sherie Rene Scott will boldly step off the Broadway stage and into your heart for a rare, intimate appearance at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Sir Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of the world-renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, will add the post of chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to his considerable credits, beginning in January 2013.

The multi-award winning team of shake & stir theatre co are back at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from 16 August to 1 September in the Cremorne Theatre with an adaption of George Orwell's classic novel 1984.

MY NAME IS ELIZABETH is a book that celebrates 200 famous, infamous and unheralded Elizabeths in the world of beauty and fashion; love and passion; art, music and adventure; food and wine; politics and power; sport and movies, as well as its most recognisable face in this year of the Diamond Jubilee

Sir Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of the world-renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, will add to his considerable credits the post of chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra beginning in January 2013, it was announced on Monday in Australia.

BROADWAY UNPLUGGED is described as 'a brand new open-mic night for musical theatre artists, fans and devotees.