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The Melbourne production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has resumed rehearsals, as the production is set to reopen on February 25, 2021.

From 5th to 20th March, Rogue Projects, in association with Bakehouse Theatre Company, will present the world premiere of Sam O'Sullivan's much-anticipated new play You're Not Special; a wickedly dark comedy about relationships, intimacy, and the dangerous line between truth and fiction in the digit

Australia get ready – the DRUMMER QUEENS have announced brand-new shows in venues across Australia following on from the hugely successful Sydney season.

Housewarming will feature a room of lasers exploding from a multitude of crystal balls as well as a gentle space with textiles and performance poetry that will immerse people in the Deaf experience.

The hugely popular PAW Patrol Live! “Race to the Rescue” Presented by Stan is heading to Australian shores this April and May.

In addition to creating over six hours of new Australian music, this project (made possible by support from the Commonwealth Government’s RISE fund) seeks to provide each ANAM musician with the experience of collaborating with a composer to produce a new work that compliments and enriches their m

One-night stands are awkward.

What do you get when you mix Melbourne's longest running, best-loved improvised comedy show with three of the most popular musical genres of all time? A toe-tapping good time at this year's Comedy Festival, that's what!

Singers will have the opportunity to virtually rehearse the first movement of ECOTORIO - 'The Protest' and all subsequent movements with the composers on the virtual platform Zoom, then record their parts individually that will be woven into the World Premiere virtual music video to be released in M

Based on the ABC Radio National documentary Only Joking, written, and presented by David Rose who makes his Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut.

RAIN BEAU'S END is an intimate lesbian family-drama situated in the late 1990s, depicting how the labelling of their adopted son affects a progressive lesbian couple's relationship as they struggle to raise their family in the spotlight.

Featuring illustrations by renowned artist and activist 巴丢草  (Badiucao), ENLIGHTENMENT by acclaimed Melbourne theatre makers Elbow Room and written by Joe Paradise Lui, premieres 10 March as part of Darebin Arts Speakeasy.

A new study looked at how the pandemic has impacted the Victorian music sector – it found that 58% of respondents are considering leaving the industry.

Following a nationwide call out that saw over 600 applicants, the stars of the Australian premiere of The Wedding Singer have been cast! More performers and creatives are set to be announced for this hilarious Broadway musical, touring the country from 9 April.

Neither COVID nor a cancer relapse can keep Michael Shafar from returning to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival ready to give 110%.

Melbourne's most dynamic and exciting new performance venue, the BRUNSWICK BALLROOM is thrilled to announce the Opening Gala will be hosted by one of Australia's most prolific and multi-talented performing artists Eddie Perfect alongside hilarious and captivating newcomer Margot Tanjutco.

Johann Sebastian Bach's glorious music returns to Melbourne Recital Centre's Elisabeth Murdoch Hall this March in two signature concerts surveying his genius.

Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Paulini, Rob Mills, Alexander Lewis & Mark Furze are set to star in CHESS THE MUSICAL touring Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane from April to June 2021.

Malthouse Theatre’s Playwriting Innovation Award is a new initiative designed to provoke conversations about the future of playwriting in Australia, and acknowledge the innovative contributions made by local playwrights to the growth of the artform.

Following their incredibly successful and multi award-winning collaboration on SHIT, Susie Dee, Patricia Cornelius and Nicci Wilks have re-teamed to create RUNT, a play about the runts of the world: the lesser, the unwanted, the weak, those without clout, the insignificant; all the unders.

With tickets to Das Rheingold near sell out at the Regent Theatre, and to Bendigo's Ulumbarra Theatre on 21 February, Melbourne Opera invites you to join them for Australia's first ever LIVE stream of an opera via the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall on Sunday 7 February at 4pm.

Midnight Oil's mini-album The Makarrata Project topped the ARIA charts last November.

This exhibition unpacks the notion of memorabilia and memorialisation of Cook – what has been kept of Cook, recorded, photographed, souvenired, named and remembered in Australia in the 250 years since his landing and examines how contemporary and First Nations artists have responded to the symbol

Melbourne Theatre Company returns to the mainstage on Thursday 11 March with the Australian premiere of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, an incisive #MeToo-era take on the archetypal student-teacher romance starring Dan Spielman (The Code) and Izabella Yena (Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tear

The newly refurbished BRUNSWICK BALLROOM is located in the old Metropolis House on Sydney Road and is destined to take the mantle as one Melbourne's most dynamic and exciting performance venues.