AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 6

Judging has commenced for the 21st SoundMerch Australian Music Prize.

This festive season, everyone's favourite Christmas movie will be gloriously sent up in the Off-Broadway smash hit, Love Actually? The Musical Parody.

Tomas Clifford Got Stood Up runs from Wednesday, October 1, through Sunday, October 5 at Solidarity Hall in the Trades Hall Festival Hub, located at the corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets in Carlton, VIC 3053.

More than two decades since Melbourne last experienced the tribal love-rock musical phenomenon HAIR, a brand-new production of the Grammy and Tony Award-winning hit is coming to the Athenaeum Theatre.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Australia - Melbourne Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

Acclaimed theatre company Alternative Facts will bring their quietly subversive participatory performance Sincere Apologies to the 2025 Melbourne Fringe.

‘Be our guest’ as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra brings Disney’s beloved animated classic Beauty and the Beast to life in a spectacular live-to-film concert experience this April.

Enchanting intergalactic illumination will light up Arts Centre Melbourne this summer as Patch Theatre’s award-winning immersive show ZOOOM tours to Melbourne for the very first time.

Legendary comedian, television host and film star, Rosie O'Donnell, is set to make her highly anticipated Australian debut with her new, critically acclaimed show Common Knowledge.

DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL, the performance adventure based on Dav Pilkey’s worldwide bestselling book series, returns to Melbourne these September school holidays for 10 performances.

Back by overwhelming demand, Legends in Concert will return for its eighth electrifying season at The Palms at Crown beginning in January 2026.

Following the MSO's recent run of sold-out performances of How to Train Your Dragon in Concert, Melbourne concertgoers can embark on a new adventure in August 2026.

Tash York’s Chaos Cabaret will be performed at the ETU Ballroom in the Fringe Hub, located at Trades Hall on the corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets in Carlton, VIC.

Australia's largest multi-day festival, Beyond The Valley will celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Naarm/Melbourne's next generation of artists and designers will transform Arts Centre Melbourne's The Show Room with a spectacular nightlife experience Beneath the Mask.

Fresh from their triumphant return Edinburgh Fringe season, award-winning Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths will bring its critically acclaimed production Ten Thousand Hours to Melbourne for the first time.

This October, Chip On Her Shoulder, starring Vanessa Buckley (Doctor Doctor, La Brea, Home and Away) will have its world premiere as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival.

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical will make its Australian premiere exclusively in Melbourne in August 2026 at The Princess Theatre.

The multi-platinum UK group Five is reuniting with all five original members for a massive world tour, which will bring them to Australia and New Zealand in May 2026.

For one night only Melbourne's Advent Brass Band invites music-lovers to come and celebrate a century of wonderful memories at their Celebration Charity Concert - a powerful, feel-good musical journey through time, live at Hamer Hall.

An extra week of performances have been added to the world premiere season of The Lark starring Noni Hazlehurst at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Deep underground work to upgrade and expand Arts Centre Melbourne's iconic Spire-topped Theatres Building has reached an important milestone, as part of the Victorian Government's city-shaping Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation.

Award-winning directors, puppeteers, writers and co-artistic directors Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams have been awarded the 2025 Frank Van Straten Fellowship through their company Lemony S Puppet Theatre.

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra will present Musette, a concert that places the cello front and centre, featuring the return of internationally acclaimed cellist Li-Wei Qin.

Due to overwhelming demand, the high-energy hit Footloose: The Musical has announced a final Melbourne season extension, now playing at the Athenaeum Theatre through Sunday, 24 August 2025.