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STUDENTS from The Actors' Hub Gap program are about to show off their skills in What Lies Beneath - and auditions for next year's course are now open.

MELVILLE Theatre is celebrating more than 30 years of staging musicals this November and December with a special retrospective taking in some of its most popular productions.

Black Swan State Theatre Company launched their 25th Anniversary season last month featuring three world premieres, five new Australian plays, three WA premieres, two co-productions, a French classic, a modern German classic, a glittering multi-award winning American play and three Malcolm Robertson

?LOYALTY, honour and love are explored in the Old Mill Theatre's latest offering, the quintessential Australian play No Names, No Pack Drill.

HEY big spender! Limelight Theatre is getting ready to sing, dance, laugh and cry its way through its next show - the classic musical comedy Sweet Charity.

A UNIQUE evening about Oscar Wilde, celebrating his life and legacy with some personal letters never before revealed, comes to the Kidogo Arthouse at Bathers Beach, Fremantle, from November 2 to 4.

ARENAarts is putting a different spin on Charles Dickens by adding a few laughs to his classic tale A Christmas Carol.

Last call! ??This is your last chance to nominate for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015.

A NOSTALGIC and vivid look at growing up in an Australian rural setting is the latest offering from The Actors' Hub this month.

Nominations have now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015.

POLISH your disco balls and set your glitter beams to fabulous - the cosmic cabaret Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is set to blast off this November and December.

A TENDER and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with who we are is the basis of a musical being brought to life in November and December.

Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama and three time Tony Award winning rock musical that has enthralled audiences on Broadway and this season is a first for Perth audiences.

Black Swan State Theatre Company are proud to announce their 25th anniversary season, where they reveal the hidden places and secret spaces of where they make their work, celebrate their past and look to the future.

A PLAY that created a public furore when first released - and is now regarded as an Australian classic - comes to the Old Mill Theatre this October.

AFTER three months of renovations by the City of Swan, Garrick Theatre is back in business with the Australian premiere ofSilhouette by Simon Brett.

MIX a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have Limelight Theatre's latest production, The 39 Steps.

A play written by two women responsible for several Hollywood hits comes to Melville Theatre this month.

A CELEBRATION of all things bellydance is set to come alive at the Perth Waldorf School on September 27.

DID you hear the one about the three New Zealanders who tried to stage their home-grown play in various WA theatre festivals?

Black Swan State Theatre Company is proud to present The Red Balloon, a world premiere stage adaptation by Hilary Bell, based on the Academy Award-winning short ?lm of the same name at the Studio Underground from Thursday 1 October to Saturday 17 October 2015.

A CASE of atomic adolescent angst is set to explode among ­Grease-style tunes and Happy Days humour when a zombie is let loose during a 1950s rock'n'roll musical this September.

MOTHER and daughter Kimberley and Elisabeth Shaw have united to direct a show at Playlovers Theatre this September - and it also features Kimberley's youngest daughter Stephanie in the production.

It's a question explored in the play Never Ever, written and directed by Melissa Merchant, being staged as part of Blak Yak Theatre's [correct: no C in Blak] short play season downstairs at Rigby's Bar.

A WORLD premiere at the OId Mill Theatre this September explores what happens when three soldiers meet a year after World War I ends.