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Queensland's composers of tomorrow have today been given an amazing opportunity to shine, with the Queensland Music Festival opening applications this week for two programs for school students looking to further their musical ambitions; Score IT! and On Song.

Multi award-winning South African-New Zealander URZILA CARLSON has become a household name in Australia in the past year, and she returns from across the ditch this year with a national stand up tour.

Australian theatre producer John Frost today announced the leading performers and the rest of the cast of the iconic hit musical Saturday Night Fever, which will premiere in Sydney at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from 27 March 2019.

The internationally renowned saxophone quartet presents an exciting, spicy taste of the world of Argentinean Tango in a unique and inspiring performance of classic and new works.

Theatre & Company present the New South Wales Premiere of Tom Kitt(Music) and Brian Yorkey's (Book and Lyrics) IF/THEN with mixed results.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy is traveling worldwide to find the most promising students to audition for one of the most prestigious training programs for actors, singers, and dancers for stage, film, and television.

In a World Premiere at Ensemble Theatre, David Williamson's latest play THE BIG TIME lifts the lid on the performing arts world whilst also considering human behavior.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) Instrument Fund today announced the acquisition of its fourth 'Golden Age' string instrument: a violin made in 1590 by influential Italian instrument makers Antonio and Hieronymus Amati.

Three time APRA Art Music Award-winning percussionist Claire Edwardes and Helpmann Award-winning dancer Richard Cilli will unite in the hauntingly hypnotic dance and music work, Recital, at Riverside Theatres from 28th February to 2nd March.

BROWN SKIN GIRL kicks off Old Fitz Theatre's 2019's season with Black Birds Creative Arts Co's wonderful brand of entertaining, enlightening and empowering theatre.

Undeniably one of the most significant gay artists of the 20th century, Stephen Sondheim defined an urbane, literate and uniquely New York voice that many would call the most important in musical theatre history.

On Sunday 10th February, Riverside Theatres will welcome in the Lunar New Year with an afternoon of traditional Chinese music performed by members of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chinese Music Ensemble and the extraordinary soprano, Carina Li.

2018 Sydney Theatre Award Winner for Best Director of an Independent Production, Dino Dimitriadis (Metamorphoses, Doubt) directs this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece.

We all know someone who would sell our secrets to the devil for the chance to live forever, and when you're 13, the devil is your friends, and living forever is sitting at the cool table.

BERT "The Machine" KREISCHER the American stand-up comedian, actor and reality television star is returning to Australia with a brand-new show.

Producers BB-Arts Entertainment & Two Doors Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co today announced the remaining cast members for the upcoming Australian Premiere of the bold new stage production of AMERICAN PSYCHO - THE MUSICAL.

Jim Cartwright's multi-award winning The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is coming back to Sydney and the cast and crew recently threw open the doors to the rehearsal room for an exclusive look at the brand new production ahead of its premiere on 5 February.

Cyrus Meher-Homji, General Manager, Classics and Jazz, Universal Music Australia is awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the performing arts, particularly through music.

Tom Cone's cabaret musical HERRINGBONE: A VAUDEVILLIAN GHOST STORY draws the audience into a tale of twisted show business 'history' meets horror story.

This year's line-up of tasty treats (to be announced at tonight's launch event at the theatre) has two programs that change each week including a slew of local, regional, interstate and international entries.

Playing to sold-out houses all over the world, POTTED POTTER takes on the ultimate challenge of condensing all seven Harry Potter books (and a real-life game of Quidditch) into seventy hilarious minutes.

On Saturday 9th February, the much-loved LGBTQI+ storytelling night, Queerstories, is heading West to Riverside Theatres for one night only as part of the 2019 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Betty Grumble, aka Emma Maye Gibson, brings her celebration of all things female and call to reinstate the power of the feminine to Griffin Theatre with LOVE AND ANGER.

Award winning playwright Nakkiah Lui returns to STC with How to Rule the World - a brand new political satire, opening at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House in February.

Esther Baker will direct Martin Askew's provocative and compelling new play There is a Field, a London story of faith, death and family strife reshaped by local crises and global events.