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Digital lottery launches for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Digital lottery launches for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

From this Friday 11 January the Australian premiere production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will begin releasing 40 tickets for every performance of the play for $40 per part.

Red Stitch announce 2019 season

Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre today announced their 2019 season, including five Australian premieres and another world premiere from the company’s INK program

Circa receive Touring Legend Award

Australian contemporary circus, Circa, has been awarded the PAC Australia Touring Legend Award for 2018.

Jobs - Australianstage

Latest jobs

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LIGHTING TECHNICIAN WANTED | 6 MONTH TOUR LIGHTING TECHNICIAN WANTED | 6 MONTH TOUR

Employer: Pace Entertainment Group
Category: Technical/Backstage
Location: International

Pace Entertainment Group have 1x Lighting Technician position on offer for a six month contract of Australia & New Zealand with a touring music & dance show.

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Senior Director of Marketing and Audience DevelopmentSenior Director of Marketing and Audience Development

Employer: Searchlight Partners
Category: Marketing/Management
Location: International

Seeking a Senior Director of Marketing & Audience Development for the Stratford Festival, North America’s largest classical repertory theatre company.

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Mechanical Installation TechnicianMechanical Installation Technician

Employer: HME Services Pty Ltd
Category: Technical/Backstage
Location: Sydney

Looking for something different? HME Services is an industry leader of installing theatrical infrastructure and wants you to join our team. Multiple full time positions available.

Latest features

Melbourne launch of Muriel’s Wedding

Melbourne launch of Muriel’s Wedding

After entertaining guests and media with an irreverent look back at the journey to find her, Director Simon Philips gave way to the young woman taking on the role of iconic outsider Muriel Heslop in the upcoming Melbourne and Sydney seasons of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical – and she’s anything but terrible!

Luke Leonard

Luke Leonard

I recently stumbled upon a story-telling night happening at Fitzroy's Kodiak Club. Run and MC'd by local comedian Luke Leonard, it was largely cast with other popular local comedians. But this was no mere comedy gig.

2018 Byron Writers Festival

2018 Byron Writers Festival

Countdown to the 22nd Byron Writers Festival (‘Where Stories Take You’) and once again the Festival brochure is out, whetting our appetite for all things creative, in a writerly fashion!

Community news

Applications open for CAAP Directors Initiative

Applications are now open for the two-year Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP) Directors Initiative at Melbourne Theatre Company.

Artist Callout: 2018 Melbourne Cabaret Fringe Festival

The 2018 Melbourne Cabaret Fringe Festival is back!

Applications now open for 2018 Indigenous Scholarship Program

Melbourne Theatre Company, in partnership with the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Victorian College of the Arts, is proudly continuing the Indigenous Scholarship Program in 2018 with an expanded program designed to foster career pathways for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people interested in the performing arts.

Most read reviews

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | 2019 Adelaide Festival

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra is that rare beast among the world’s orchestras, a democratic institution. The players themselves founded it, and they choose their conductors. It has musicians from over 20 nations, and assembles for specific tours acoss Europe and the world.

Grounded | National Theatre of Parramatta

Captain Marvel is rocketing up the multiplex box-office at the moment, but, for my money, there’s a major marvel playing at Riverside Theatres at the moment that beats the kapow! out of that CGI blockbuster.

A View from the Bridge | Melbourne Theatre Company

Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, A View from the Bridge explodes on the stage of the Sumner Theatre in Southbank.

A Brief History of Time – Chamber Landscapes

Chamber Landscapes is a long weekend of chamber music held yearly as part of the Adelaide Festival at Ukaria, a cultural centre with an auditorium purpose-built for chamber music, quite possibly the best in the country.

Dance Nation | Red Stitch Actors Theatre

How large is the window of opportunity for girls to rise above and navigate society’s obstacles to personal and professional success?

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