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Are you after a night of intrigue, beauty, betrayal, and debauchery? Given current world events I am sure the answer is yes! JTM productions presentation of Sex, Lies & Betrayal – Memoirs of a Hollywood Star is therefore the show for you.

Following the resounding acclaim received for Das Rheingold in February 2021, Melbourne Opera continues its triumphant staging of The Ring Cycle, with the cycle's second opera, Die Walküre, premiering on 9 February 2022.

Due to scheduling changes as a result of COVID-19, The Wedding Singer musical has set new dates for seasons opening across Sydney and Melbourne from January 2022.

Some Happy Day follows Tina, a homeless woman in desperate search of a better life, who meets Frances, a social worker with troubles of her own.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announced that Carlo Antonioli is the 2022 Cybec Assistant Conductor fellow.

The outdoor setting at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is a highlight of Shakespeare Under the Stars.

Join Jude and Scotty for what could loosely be called a play – think Waiting for Godot meets Flying High – that is not only full of shameless gags but sees them confronting their greatest fear.

From the creative team behind the award-winning MATADOR and the critically acclaimed MANSION, comes their latest fusion of circus, burlesque, dance & contemporary storytelling: ORACLE.

On January 20, The Motley Bauhaus (Melbourne’s premier independent art space dedicated to promoting skills based art practices) is launching a brand new 350 person capacity and uniquely independent arts venue right on the edge of the city.

After a highly successful debut in Brisbane and sold-out shows in Adelaide, award-winning theatre company JTM Productions is thrilled to bring their critically acclaimed production of Sex, Lies & Betrayal - Memoirs of a Hollywood Star to Melbourne in a Victorian premiere.

After premiering with a highly successful season at the 2021 Melbourne Cabaret Festival, John Thorn and Terence O'Connell's Mrs Prime Minister returns to the Melbourne stage for a season at MEMO Music Hall from 28-30 January.

Opera Australia today announced it had secured the world's most in demand tenor, Jonas  Kaufmann to perform his first ever fully staged opera in Australia when the Company presents Wagner's Lohengrin in Melbourne in May.

Acclaimed theatre director Craig Ilott has been announced as the director of the theatrical show Peter Pan - The 360° Adventure, which is premiering in Melbourne from June 2022.

From the creative team behind the award-winning MATADOR and the critically acclaimed MANSION, comes their latest fusion of circus, burlesque, dance & contemporary storytelling: ORACLE.

Roma McLaughlin and Kathy Fahey's exhibition Coastline, featuring papercuts, collages and paintings depicting the Victorian Southern Ocean, has been extended online until February 2022.

ACOCo’s 2022 season sees the award winning independent company roar back to live performance with seven shows all directed by women, including five Australian premieres,    and new presentation partnerships with The Wheeler Centre, the Melbourne Recital Centre, and, wait for it, the MCG (Yarra P

Am Australian tour of the Tony Award-nominated Sondheim on Sondheim, an intimate portrait of the famed musical theatre genius Stephen Sondheim, has been announced.

Producers GWB Entertainment and Damien Hewitt today announced that the hit musical Girl from the North Country, by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will open at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 29 April for a limited season.

Opening at the Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Theatre in March 2022, this entirely original stage adaptation of the iconic and provocative short story Yentl, is the first since the 1975 Broadway play, and the first new adaptation since the pop culture phenomenon that was Barbra Streisand’s 198

Thirty-five years after James Cameron’s Aliens first appeared in cinemas, pop culture aficionados – nerds – Rob Lloyd (Who Me, The Mighty Little Puppets) and Keith Gow (Who Are You Supposed to Be, Sonnigsburg) are recreating the film: mounted as if it was a history play written by the Bard him

With Christmas on the way, the stars of 9 to 5 THE MUSICAL, Dolly Parton’s smash-hit West End musical, have started celebrating early, recording their own Dolly Parton-inspired take on the traditional Jingle Bells.

After leaving overseas audiences on the edge of their seats, Touching the Void will bring the Peruvian Andes to Melbourne for its Australian premiere, opening at Southbank Theatre on Friday 21 January 2022.

Following the success of its inaugural production The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) in 2020, Be You Productions returns to the stage with [title of show], running from 15 - 19 December 2021 at the MC Showroom, Level 1, 48 Clifton Street Prahran.

Seymour Centre has announced the first half of its 2022 season, featuring a world premiere, two Australian premieres, the premiere presentation of a revamped Broadway classic, and the triumphant return of a hit, sold-out show from its 2021 season.

Melbourne, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is Majestic, Marvellous, Magical and Mesmerising!