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Tickets are now on pre-sale for the Melbourne season of the multi-Tony Award winning rock musical by Jonathan Larson, RENT with GP tickets available from Thursday 28 September.

School's In! TikTok sensation Rainbow History Class and best-selling authors are hitting comedy festivals starting this week.

MATADOR SABOR DE AMOR invites you to fall in love at Melbourne Fringe 2023 with a fast-paced fusion of dance, circus, and burlesque.

Acclaimed Melbourne Skateboarding Artist Brett Ashby paints Australian TV personality Peter Hitchener OAM in a mesmerizing live art event.

Following on from the successful 2023 AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, the Festival is expanding and is on the search for an Executive Producer to work alongside Artistic Director Tyran Parke to deliver the 2024 festival and beyond.

In this debut Fringe show, acclaimed poets Charaf Tartoussi, Farah Beaini, Thabani Tshuma and Parminder Kaur merge spoken word, theatre and mourning ritual to explore grief from the migrant perspective.

The Improvised Australian Soap Opera is the Soap Opera that is is inspired by you, made up in real time before your very eyes, and it's coming to Melbourne Fringe! Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!

The multi-Tony Award winning rock musical by Jonathan Larson, RENT, will embark on a tour of Australia in 2024.

In a celebration of campness, Christmas and comedy, best pals Joel Creasey and Rhys Nicholson – and their chosen family – will reunite to host a suite of yuletide shows across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Wollongong from 30 November – 9 December.

Marina Prior, Michael Cormick and Jemma Rix join The New Year's Eve (& The Night Before) Gala Concerts on 30 and 31 December 2023.

Dolly Diamond takes the stage in 'Ruthless the Musical!' in Melbourne next year.

'Flit' by Ruby Rees, the playwright who won the national St Martin's Playwriting Award in 2010 for her debut play 'Serpents', comes to Melbourne Fringe.

Debra Byrne, Peter Phelps, Genevieve Morris, Loredo Malcolm and Bev Killick will join the Melbourne cast of the hit Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles, opening at Arts Centre Melbourne from 9 November.

Australian comedy legends Tony Nikolakopoulos and George Kapiniaris team up once again to bring you the world premiere of The Life of Byron.

New Australian musical, VILLAINY premieres in Melbourne in November.

This Melbourne Fringe Festival join critically acclaimed Variety Artist Anna Lumb and Drag Icon DANDROGYNY as they navigate the tiny space in the front seat of a beat-up Beamer, when a casual lift home shifts dangerously into fifth gear.

Producers of the upcoming all-new  production of GREASE have announced the final performers joining the gang at Rydell High.

The Silver Gull Play Award competition this year attracted a large variety of entries, with an extremely high standard of scripts submitted.

Winner of five coveted festival awards in 2022, with sell-out international and national tours, audiences totalling 35 000+ people and having amassed over 100 stars from multiple rave reviews, the juggernaut that is GODZ returns to the Festival Park.

The Producers of the Australian Premiere of the critically acclaimed West End hit, The Grinning Man, have revealed the creative team that will bring this dark and stunning musical to life at the Alex Theatre St Kilda from April 25, 2024.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and a roll call of some of the most exciting voices in the country will perform a George Michael tribute concert, George Michael: Freedom!, to celebrate and honour one of the greatest pop icons of a generation at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl this summer on Saturd

Disney Princess – The Concert, presented by Disney Concerts and TEG DAINTY, has announced the cast for its Australian tour dates.

The electrifying musical sensation, TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL, has been setting Theatre Royal Sydney ablaze with its explosive performances, receiving standing ovations and rave reviews from audiences and critics alike.

Le Freak hot on the heels of two sell-out seasons is set to make its return at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Australian audiences have loved Bethenny Frankel for many years from her television appearances and her no-nonsense attitude to her business acumen.