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Cybec Electric returns to Southbank Theatre from 3-5 March, presenting five fresh and fierce works-in-progress from some of Australia's most promising new playwrights.

Created during the Melbourne lockdowns, the making of Flux Job was disrupted and extended, with short bursts of activity interspersed with long periods of postponement.

Sydney Theatre Company's sensational smash-hit THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is set to make its debut in Melbourne, playing from 5 June at the Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne as part of RISING.

Welcome To The Sixties, Melbourne! The nicest kids in town will be here from August 2022 when the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray opens at the Regent Theatre.

The Ring Cycle includes four epic operas totalling 17 hours of performance time, and is known to be the greatest challenge for any opera company, as the most impressive and opulent event in the history of the artform.

The brand-new production, The I's in Relationship, is coming to the stage from 16-19 Feburary, telling a compelling story of the acceptance of differences, falling in love and how opposites attract.

Starring Kat Stewart (Heisenberg) and William McKenna (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), MTC'S Admissions is a scorching satire that holds a mirror up to privilege and power through the lens of the education system and makes its Australian debut from 5 March – 9 April.

The new Australian production has made a triumphant return to the Studio at Sydney Opera House where it's currently playing until 2 April.

Rehearsals have begun and the countdown is on to the much anticipated Australian premiere of this hilarious musical at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney on 16 February, followed by a limited season at the  Lyric Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane from 22 May.

Lyndon Terracini for Opera Australia and John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia today announced the two talented actors who will feature as Cinderella’s stepsisters in one of the most beautiful musicals of all time.

Pack a picnic and get ready, Melbourne Shakespeare Company's brand new musical production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is set to be the theatrical highlight of the Summer.

Block Party will showcase a range of roaring local dance crews across street and social dance styles, including Breakin’, Vogue, House, Hip Hop, Dance Hall, Popping and Locking.

After a sell-out season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2021, The Australian Shakespeare Company is bringing back Melbourne’s favourite comical characters in PETER QUINCE PRESENTS: The Athenian Players in “A MIDSUMMER MECHANICAL’S DREAM.

In the wake of last week’s acclaimed Tasmanian gigs, Midnight Oil today unveiled the full line up for each show of their imminent mainland tour.

 The show's producer James Seabright has announced that its creators Daniel Clarkson and Jeff Turner, will be coming to Australia to perform in the rescheduled shows, alongside seasoned performers and fellow Brits Scott Hoatson and Joseph Maudsley.

Double-dosed with AstraZeneca (because he’s not a coward) and boosted twice with Pfizer (because he’s not brand loyal), the testicular cancer surviving Michael Shafar is back licking everything again! He's also returning to the stage to solve all of the world’s problems with a new show!

The Forest Collective returns to present a very special program featuring two recitals of rarely heard works in ‘Shifting’ at the Abbotsford Convent from February 24 – 26, 2022.

A star-studded line up of some of Australia's most loved performers including Anton Berezin, Rhonda Burchmore, Fiona Choi, Peter Coleman-Wright, Amy Lehpamer, Ainsley Melham, Anna O'Byrne and Josh Piterman will celebrate the life of virtuoso Stephen Sondheim in the Australian tour of the Tony Award-

Bat Out Of Hell Musical is set to begin performances in Australia in January/February 2023, Producer Paul Dainty, together with Global Producer Michael Cohl and the company of Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell the Rock Musical, mourn the passing of their friend and producer, Meat Loaf and pay tr

Mystery At Mo's is set in an Australian Diner, where waitresses Daisy, Cindy and Tina work.

Black Comedy star/writer, icon, television and cabaret sensation and self-styled 'Faboriginal', Steven Oliver, will debut his cheeky festival hit Steven Oliver: Bigger & Blacker at the Malthouse Theatre from 31 March to 10 April 2022.

From the creative team behind the award-winning MATADOR and the critically acclaimed MANSION, comes a fusion of circus, burlesque, dance & contemporary storytelling: ORACLE - and it is one for the gods! After a premiere season in Melbourne it comes to the Princess Theatre for a strictly limited se

Into the Woods was vocally sublime and featured a refreshingly diverse range of performers

Five time Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home will make its much anticipated debut in Melbourne in a special Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company co-production, in association with Midsumma Festival, opening on Thursday 10 February at Arts Centre Melbourne.

The producers of HAMILTON are delighted to confirm that the originating Australian cast will perform in Melbourne when the Tony, Grammy, Olivier, and Pulitzer Prize winning musical premieres at Her Majesty's Theatre from 15 March 2022.