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Billy Joel is one of the biggest concert draws in the world.

Melbourne Theatre Company today released its 2021 annual report, detailing a year of challenges, change and resilience at Victoria's state theatre company.

Hayes Theatre Co has announced the full cast of the upcoming Australian professional premiere of Jekyll and Hyde at the Hayes Theatre from 29 June.

Dark Arts Festival WinterWild will return to Apollo Bay on August 12-14 + August 26-28 bringing live music, theatre, gourmet food, outdoor performance, installations, beachside bonfires, comedy, swims and cemetery tours to the dark heart of the Otway Coast.

Melbourne's artiste provocateurs Finucane & Smith return to the heart of Melbourne with FUTURE.

After opening at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre on Friday 29 April, and performing a critically acclaimed seven week season, Girl From the North Country will close its season this Saturday 11 June.

Melbourne Theatre Company today announced Jennifer Medway has been appointed in a new role as Head of New Work, bringing over a decade of professional experience in the development of new Australian work as a dramaturg.

My Self in That Moment is a new work by Chamber Made featuring an ensemble of 49 tablets and a live solo vocalist.

RISING, a festival three years in the making, has opened today.

Malthouse Theatre today unveiled three more works in its Season 2022 line up including the world premieres of Anna K starring Caroline Craig ((Underbelly, Blue Heelers) a sinister comedy by Ra Chapman who is making her mainstage debut with K-BOX plus the premiere of Monsters, a co-production with S

Darlinghurst Theatre Company has announced the cast of the smash-hit musical Once, which makes its long-awaited return to the Eternity Playhouse from 24 June following its season in Perth with Black Swan State Theatre Company.

Producers Rodney Rigby and Junkyard Dog Productions today announced that worldwide smash hit, Tony and Olivier award-winning musical COME FROM AWAY will play at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre from 27 August, with a season at Theatre Royal Sydney from 5 November.

CrewCare have announced that applications for the Weasle Eicke Scholarship in partnership with RMIT University are now open! The training is designed to deliver attendees a mix of theory-based learning and on the job paid work placement.

Following three years of planning and community consultation, The Aboriginal Memorial has been relocated to the heart of the National Gallery, helping make the most important work in the national collection central to all visitors' art experience.

A perfect musical for the family this winter, with Cinderella’s costume transformations being truly magical! 4 STARS.

Melbourne Theatre Company's new boutique musical Come Rain or Come Shine, an adaptation of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's comic short story of the same name, will have its world premiere on Friday 24 June at Southbank Theatre.

Get dressed to kill as Concertworks presents the Australian concert tour of The Music of James Bond with Australia's original James Bond 007, George Lazenby in September 2022.

One hour, five actors, thirty incredible secrets told through a series of powerful, moving and sometimes hilarious verbatim monologues.

The new reimagined production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened last Thursday at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre.

Her memorable music is still played all over the world! The Australian Whitney Houston show will be at The Palms at Crown Melbourne “Celebrating Whitney” with a spectacular show.

The multi-award-winning cabaret legends, YUMMY, will explode back into Melbourne for a short visit this June with its wild, salacious and highcamp variety show, ICONIC, before heading to London for a four-week season and then returning to kick off an Australian tour.

Melbourne, prepare to be thrilled and put on edge at Darkfield! Incorporating four different immersive theatre experiences you will be taken on a spine-chilling journey in complete darkness, using multi-sensory audio.

Imaginations will run wild at the inaugural EMERGE festival, which will take over the Mount Waverley Community Centre gardens for five nights this winter.

The first performance in Australia of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella will take place tonight, Friday 20 May, at Melbourne's Regent Theatre.

Beckett's will present the third in their dinner-theatre vignette series - a selection of readings by William Zappa from his acclaimed adaptation of Homer's 'The Iliad'.