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Australia's genuine fake Russian choir Dustyesky will arrive in Melbourne as part of this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the very first time.

Directed by Katrina Cornwell and written by Morgan Rose, Everyone is Famous by youth theatre company Riot Stage looks at persona in the age of social media.

Sitting somewhere between a lecture, a stand-up show, a guided tour and a dance recital, Reference Material is a chaotic and humorous performance that reflects a world saturated by media technology.

Forest Collective are set to return to Melbourne stages to present their tenth, and most daring, season of contemporary classical music.

The high-octane rock musical WE WILL ROCK YOU is set to tour Australia in an all-new arena production that will raise the roof of Entertainment Centres across the country from this October.

Welcome to the live TV studio of primetime game show 'Judge Your Neighbour'.

This Midsumma Festival, Dolly Diamond will be rescuing contestants from their mundane lives, transforming them into their idols and making them stars for a night! Which stars will be unveiled? And who will win?

Red Stitch's famed PlayList festival brings Melbourne's most exciting new and established writers together every year in a celebration of the wonder and possibility of theatre.

There's still time to register and help change the world - one note at a time!

Serious Comedy presents an online and 'home friendly' night in of western suburbs comedy, music and stories – including the behind-the-scenes secrets of what happens when you pivot in a pandemic.

Anarchy, conspiracy, drugs, racism, ableism, disability sex whores, Anti-Vax Karens, cover-up culture, is Peter Dutton an actual potato? Whatever the topic, it's in our wheelhouse.

A State Memorial celebrating the incredible life and achievements of Michael Solomon Gudinski AM will be held at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday 24 March.

Acclaimed television personality Paul McDermott returns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to perform his brand new show Paul McDermott Plus One, from 15 – 18 April at the Malthouse Outdoor Stage as part of a national tour.

Arts Centre Melbourne's Morning Melodies returns to Hamer Hall to delight audiences with a stellar line-up of music theatre, cabaret, opera, jazz and dance from May to December 2021.

The Trauma Project is an immersive composition for theatre crafted by Elizabeth Walley in response to her eyewitness experience of a domestic-violence homicide on her street.

The opening of a new live performance venue during a worldwide pandemic may at first seem like an oxymoron….

From the prolific, internationally acclaimed Dummies Corp, comes a killer new circus comedy for adults, Dumtectives in Cirque Noir.

Opening on Thursday 22 April at Southbank Theatre, Joanna Murray-Smith's brand new play, Berlin, is a riveting romantic thriller that pits the dark shadow of history against the dazzling promise of true love.

Opera Australia will return to the State Theatre in May 2021 will its productions of Aida and Ernani.

Circa Contemporary Circus, one of the world's leading performance companies, has joined forces with multi award-winning and globally renowned animation studio Aardman to create a new circus-theatre production  for audiences of all ages, Shaun the Sheep's Circus Show.

It's 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable curvy teen, Tracy Turnblad, has only one desire – to dance on the popular 'Corny Collins Show.

Soothplayers presents Completely Improvised Shakespeare will delight and amaze you as they conjure a full Shakespearean play from nothing but a suggested title from the audience.

Michael Gudinski was a key figure in shaping the Australian music industry.

Melbourne's most dynamic and exciting new performance venue, the BRUNSWICK BALLROOM has opened with a bang enjoying a weekend of sold out shows.

A show about Shakespeare's propaganda concerning Queen Margaret of Anjou from 500 years ago to shine a light on where we are in the 21st century.