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Play It Forward has announced that round two of Permission To Shine online singing competition opens today! The three sections in round two are Pop, Soul and Folk.

Shane Jacobson will host Keeping The Curtain Up on Saturday, July 18, with funds being raised by the Actors Benevolent Fund of NSW, reports Aussie Theatre.

According to Aussie Theatre, a special edition of Arts Centre Melbourne's Big Night In with John Foreman will complete its digital season with an episode featuring a playlist of favorite Aussie Pops Orchestra and bloopers from the series.

Asia TOPA is giving audiences the change to watch highlights from the festival, which ran from January to March this year, via Asia TOPA Connected, as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's Together With You program.

Australian True Crime: Live a?" In Conversation with Andrew Rule and Julia Robson will stream live online at 8 pm AEST on Saturday 18 July.

Victorian Opera has provided updates on the remaining shows in its 2020 season, effectively cancelling all programming through the end of the year.

Red Line Productions latest theatre in isolation sees the multi award-winning Toby Schmitz return to the Old Fitz Theatre stage in Will Eno's THOM PAIN ( BASED ON NOTHING).

Arts Centre Melbourne will be celebrating Victorian NAIDOC Week with a range of digital content being released from July 5-12 as part of its Together With You initiative.

Neil Gooding's (Director) reimagining of Marshall Pailet (music and book) and A.

As the school holidays begin, Arts Centre Melbourne's Families Program has created online experiences through the Together With You digital offering which is a world of fun and interactive experiences to help kids stay connected, entertained and inspired.

With the cancellation of its world premiere new Australian work Three Tales, Victorian Opera will present the three short chamber operas online via its website and YouTube on Saturday 27 June at 7:30 pm.

Ella Hooper, The Black Sorrows and David Hobson are among a collection of artists who will perform back at Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall in episodes 9 & 10 of Arts Centre Melbourne's Big Night In with John Foreman.

Following a nation-wide search, four finalists have been selected to compete for the 2020 Freedman Classical Fellowship which, by chance, includes three musicians based in Victoria, violinist Harry Ward (24), cellists James Morley (24) and Richard Narroway (29) plus NSW violinist Grace Cliffor

50 fearless and inspiring short works from some of Australia's best playwrights will be simultaneously livestreamed by more than 30 performing arts organisations from across Australia between the 2-5 July.

Arts Centre Melbourne has postponed welcoming visitors back to its venues following the recent changes to public health restrictions in Victoria.

Following a nation-wide search, four finalists have been selected to compete for the 2020 Freedman Classical Fellowship which, by chance, includes three musicians based in Victoria, violinist Harry Ward (24), cellists James Morley (24) and Richard Narroway (29) plus NSW violinist Grace Clifford (22

As part of Arts Centre Melbourne's reopening program, the first three Fridays in July will see new series Fridays at the Playhouse Lounge open with Australia's hardest hitting Hammond organ trio, Cookin' On 3 Burners.

Jim Steinman's epic rock musical, Bat Out Of Hell is coming to Australia's biggest arenas in 2021.

Much-loved Australian singer-songwriter Lior, soprano Claire Lyon and singer, musical theatre and cabaret artist Danielle Matthews will join John Foreman for Episode 8 of the weekly digital variety series Arts Centre Melbourne's Big Night In.

The Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) has announced the June 2020 offering for their adapted program, These Digital Times a?" an online music festival series featuring local and international artists.

Antipodes Theatre Company (Brandon Pape, Artistic Director) has enlisted over forty artists to participate in their first annual Winter Development Retreat, taking place 17-28 June, 2020.

Arts Centre Melbourne has begun turning off its ghost lights to welcome back visitors from Saturday 27 June with music and cabaret on the Playhouse stage, a spectacular light and sound installation at Hamer Hall and fun activations for families on the Forecourt.

In the wake of COVID-19, Victorian Opera swiftly adapted online to deliver a stream of diverse content, including a new recital series beginning this weekend and a comic mini-series written for university-aged singers reflecting on life in lockdown.

Star of the stage and screen Hugh Sheridan, journalist and musical theatre performer Gorgi Coghlan and humourist and social /political commentator Gretel Killeen will join John Foreman for Episode 7 of the weekly digital variety series Arts Centre Melbourne's Big Night In.