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Following standing ovations, widespread acclaim and sell-out shows in Adelaide, the Australian professional premiere of the hilarious hit Broadway musical The Wedding Singer, will open its Melbourne season in less than two weeks on 1 May, at The Athenaeum Theatre.

It was announced today that the hilarious New York and Las Vegas hit Friends! The Musical Parody has extended its Melbourne season by two weeks.

Melbourne's most dynamic and exciting new performance venue, the BRUNSWICK BALLROOM is thrilled to announce that due to demand, four new shows have been added to the Melbourne season of Coral Browne: This Effing Lady, currently playing at the Brunswick Ballroom as part of the Melbourne International

Celebrated Italian director and choreographer Davide Livermore, will finally have its Melbourne premiere next month, in a spectacular return to the State Theatre stage after an 18 month hiatus due to COVID 19.

Ridiculous power-pair Carol and Daryl Pitts have recently graduated from their own self-devised 6-week musical theatre course and are now hitting up Shady Pines Nursing Home to deliver their Weekly Wednesday Wellness Program.

New cast members are joining the multi-award-winning theatrical event Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Princess Theatre.

FANGIRLS: World Premiere Cast Recording – based on the award-winning Australian stage musical sensation – will be released in digital and streaming formats on Friday, April 30.

Hit Broadway comedy The Lifespan of a Fact, by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell - a somewhat accurate, sort of factual, mostly true story about the slippery nature of facts - will make its Australian premiere, opening on Friday 21 May at the Arts Centre Melbourne.

Todd will be treating this show like a fabulous dinner party with friends.

Mushroom Group today announced that Matt Gudinski will assume the role of CEO of the Mushroom Group, effective immediately.

After a sold out tour in 2019 across four Australian capital cities and four amazing venues: The Melba Spiegeltent, Sydney Opera House, The Tivoli Brisbane and Adelaide Festival Centre, MATADOR returns to Melbourne in the resplendent Her Majesty’s Theatre for a strictly limited season from 29th Ap

What are the chances? is a stand-up comedy show with great jokes and unique stories about finding yourself in the world; working as a special guest cricket commentator in India, a pivotal role in an FBI investigation and an unexpected encounter with a Japanese woman named Motoko.

Shaun the Sheep's Circus Show comes to Melbourne's Regent Theatre from April 14, 2021.

After its run in Sydney in early January, Channing Tatum’s Magic Mike Live will open in Melbourne in the world’s largest spiegeltent, The Arcadia, at Birrarung Marr on 8 June 2021.

“SUDDENLY: A Short New Musical” will stream for free worldwide, from April 30th 2021.

Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy asks: are you a Top or a Bottom?

One of Melbourne's most innovative independent theatre companies, Citizen Theatre, return with their latest bold offering after highly successful productions When The Light Leaves (nominated for a Green Room Award) and Forgotten Places (supported by Kingston and Stonnington Councils).

Find out who is in the cast of Channing Tatum’s Magic Mike Live, which will open in Melbourne in the world’s largest  spiegeltent, The Arcadia, at Birrarung Marr on 8 June 2021.

This October, horror hit and global phenomenon Ghost Stories will play at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre for a strictly limited 8 week season.

The Creating Cabaret Course is a unique online course, that runs for 2 ½ hours every Tuesday night, for 12-weeks from the April 20th to July 6th, which will teach you how to write, produce and perform your own cabaret show.

Final seats are on sale at 9:00am, Monday 29 March for the Melbourne performances of CHESS THE MUSICAL, starring Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Paulini, Rob Mills, Alexander Lewis, Mark Furze and more at the Regent Theatre from 22 to 24 April.

The Pirate Experience, a new dinner and show experience by Queens of the Damned Theatre Restaurant, will open in Melbourne on May 15, 2021.

The creative team and full cast list has been announced for the hilarious, feel-good musical, The Wedding Singer, which will have its Australian premiere in just two weeks on Friday 9 April.

Journey inside the minds, the heels and the depraved souls of the cabaret world's most exciting up-and-coming duo.

Refuge 2021 by Arts House will bring together artists, emergency experts, scientists, deep thinkers and local communities to collaborate and prepare for multiple crises and climate emergency scenarios.