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The US producers and Australian management team of Magic Mike Live have made the extremely difficult decision to cancel the remainder of the Australian tour.

Due to ongoing restrictions and uncertainty in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, TEG Dainty has announced that the  Sooshi Mango OFF THE BOAT tour has been rescheduled.

To date this year, MTC has cancelled 80 performances as a result of COVID lockdowns and associated restrictions.

As part of the Circus Oz experiment, the Circus Arts Incubator Fellowship program introduces five circus creatives committed to uncovering the next Australian circus arts provocation.

Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2021 alumni Johnny Balbuziente will star in Fourthcoming, a brand-new interactive rom-com by shake & stir theatre co at Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC) Cremorne Theatre from 23 October.

Acclaimed Australian actor Hugo Weaving joins a diverse cast of established performers and rising stars including Bojana Novakovic (I, Tonya, Birds of Prey, Instinct, Shameless, Satisfaction), Bob Morley (The 100), Heather Mitchell (Muriel's Wedding, Rogue, The Great Gatsby), Sarah Peirse (The Hobbi

Frontier Touring, Mushroom Group, Acast and Schwartz Media regret to advise that due to the current COVID outbreaks in New South Wales and Victoria and subsequent border closures, the Melbourne Podcast Festival 2021 will not go ahead as planned.

Led by the National Theatre Ballet School's Artistic Director Damian Smith, this celebratory performance has a focus on international dance styles and includes pieces by local dance companies Karma Dance and the Lehenda Ukranian Dance Company.

Previously announced, this production will star Queenie van de Zandt in the leading role of Diana Goodman, the matriarch of a modern-day family, traumatised by loss and the unpredictable affects sparked by her bipolar diagnosis.

'Winning the Levi’s Music Prize has always been a dream of mine,' said Brisbane pop artist, Sycco, whose song Dribble debuted at #29 in triple j’s Hottest 100 and took out Song of the Year in the 2021 Queensland Music Awards.

The Pageant is “the beauty pageant to end all beauty pageants” and is a pageant celebrating the power of pageantry because if there’s one thing former pageant darling Victoria Beauvoir knows, there’s no such thing as too much pageantry.

Due to public venue capacity limits set by the Victorian Chief Medical Health Officer announced on 27 July, additional performances of Magic Mike Live will be postponed.

Malthouse Theatre Artistic Director, Matthew Lutton  has collaborated with choreographer Stephanie Lake,  and Sydney-based writer Emme Hoy to create an  chilling adventure into the darkness featuring stage and  screen star Pamela Rabe and Stephanie Lake Company  dancers.

The opening event will include two commissions – one in collaboration with the Metro Tunnel Creative Program and the other a part of the UK/Australia Season, a collaboration between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Ticket holders for ACOCo’s season of The Enchanted Pig will be contacted by TICKETEK with  an offer to refund.

Thanks to a post-lockdown identity crisis, vegan soy-boy Charlie decides to give up pornography and hit the gay dating scene.

From the award-winning team behind ANGRY SEXX, GROUND CONTROL and MORAL PANIC, HYDRA by Double Water Sign is a searing new work of dystopian science-fiction, the story of an angry young man and the woman whose job it is to kill him.

In a role approved by The Who’s Pete Townshend himself, Victorian Opera welcomes back rising star Mat Verevis (A Little Night Music, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Nine Network’s The Voice) as Narrator / Tommy.

Joining Catherine on Friday, July 30 is singer/actor Ursula Yovich, writer/actor/composer/pianist Phil Scott and comedy legend Jean Kittson.

Opera Australia has announced the forced postponement of their production of The Phantom of the Opera that was scheduled to open at the Sydney Opera House in September and Arts Centre Melbourne in November.

Melbourne based New Zealand composer/lyricist Luke Di Somma has released his debut album - SONGS FOR MY FRIENDS.

One of the most successful comedians on the planet, Jim Jefferies, will return to Australia in June/July 2022.

Artists from Victoria's diverse arts community have joined forces with some of Melbourne's leading arts organisations to create an awareness campaign encouraging Victorians to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Performance of a Lifetime is a collaborative project developed by the MSO, with performing arts and entertainment organisations from across Victoria.

The Australian production currently stars Jason Arrow leading the company as Alexander Hamilton, Chloé Zuel as Eliza Hamilton, Lyndon Watts as Aaron Burr, Akina Edmonds as Angelica Schuyler, Matu Ngaropo as George Washington, and more!