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Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox celebrates The Grand Reopening with a worldwide tour.

Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s moving contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy – King Lear is a tender, violent, and intimate exploration of old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, folly and wisdom.

NAI PALM has today been announced as our second Ambassador for Record Store Day 2021 which will be held across 2 days on June 12 and July 17.

The Melbourne Cabaret Festival will return to Chapel Off Chapel from 16 to 27 June 2021.

The David Roche Foundation House Museum which has the finest private collection of decorative art in Australia with more than 3,000 works, marks its 5th anniversary on 3 June and is celebrating more than 26,000 visitors and a changing exhibition program that has moved from Japan to Russia, and quilt

JPY 50 Years Young – The Anniversary Tour, will take you on that journey in songs and stories from Glasgow, Scotland to the shores of Australia and back around the world again, as John performs the songs that brought him national and international stardom.

Directed by Trish Carr, 12 Angry Men is a gripping examination of twelve jurors as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a 16-year-old defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt, in a seemingly open-and-shut case.

Following a year where dance studios across the world have been closed and audiences have been deprived of enjoying live performances, the National Theatre has invited dancers from across Melbourne to share their stage and love for dance, in The National Goes International on Saturday 26 June.

Australia's genuine fake Russian choir Dustyesky was due to play in Melbourne as part of this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival but alas those shows were postponed.

Absolutely Sensational.

East Meets West Orchestral Evening will present a unique blend of music from China and beyond.

Forest Collective are returning to the Abbotsford Convent from July 16 -18 to present a season  of innovative, lesser known works from leading Asian composers.

While the majority of Melbournians, myself included, spent a large portion of 2020 stuck at home pondering the meaning of life, Jordie Race-Coldrey (director, composer, lyricist and co-writer) and Dean Gild (creative producer and co-writer) created a musical made specifically for screen!

UNINVITED celebrates the music of Grammy Award winning artist, Alanis Morissette in an unforgettable live show.

What happens when our games are about war, and war is played like a game? Playwright Melissa Reeves has teamed up with director Susie Dee for a dark comedy exploring the frightening depersonalisation of modern warfare at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre from 9 - 19 June.

Seasons In Blak Box is a unique storytelling experience that will leave you better informed, appreciative and more fascinated about the land on which we live.

Deep cut productions is excited to present Rajiv Joseph's play Gruesome Playground Injuries performing at the Butterfly Club in May 2021.

Hannah Gadsby, world class, award winning funny person, has a brand new live show - Body of Work -hitting stages across Australia and New Zealand from July 2021.

Bell Shakespeare today announced the cast for the upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, travelling to 26 venues across Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Tasmania and Queensland between July and November this year.

DG GLOBAL EVENTS & GOLD104.

Better Off Said is an afternoon to release some words, thoughts and reflections for the living and dead.

Following the roaring success of their 2020 and 2021 seasons, which saw an unprecedented run of COMPLETELY SELL OUT performances; Showmen Productions are once again returning to their hometown of Melbourne with their hilarious R-RATED 18+ magic show aptly named – ADULTS ONLY MAGIC SHOW at Houdini

The MSO will return to the stage with a larger orchestra, more space for music lovers to enjoy a live concert experience, and for the first time this year, its soul-stirring Chorus.

A theatre production about the timely and ageless issue of sexual consent is not reaching the audiences and regions that are most in need.

2021 marks the 15th Anniversary of the international hit Harry Potter parody POTTED POTTER.