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Details: 16 November 2008

From Broadway to the West End, and the West End to Melbourne…the wait is over and AVENUE Q fans can rejoice that the Tony Award Best Musical winner will finally be enjoyed in Australia.

Details: 14 October 2008

ANZ today announced that ANZ Trustees will establish a memorial fund in honour of the late Rob Guest to help promising young performers kick-start their careers in musical theatre.

Details: 13 October 2008

Melbourne's arts community celebrated the overwhelming success of The Age 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival last night with the announcement of the Melbourne Fringe Awards.

Details: 08 October 2008

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announced that Geoffrey Rush, internationally-renowned, multi-award winner and one of Australia’s greatest actors, has accepted a new role as ‘MSO Ambassador’.

Details: 01 October 2008

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Phillips this week announced that six plays in the 2009 season would be performed at the new MTC Theatre on Southbank Boulevard

Details: 22 September 2008

Maxwell Foster has won the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award 2008. Maxwell along with the other finalists played to a capacity crowd at Hamer Hall, Victorian Arts Centre on Friday 19 September.

Details: 18 September 2008

Only two weeks out from the extended date of 30 September, to raise $1.8 million to secure the purchase of its Faraday Street home in Carlton, La Mama has achieved its goal.

Details: 15 September 2008

Melbourne Recital Centre CEO Dr Jacques de Vos Malan yesterday announced a “musical cornucopia” for the inaugural season of Melbourne Recital Centre.

Most read Melbourne reviews

West Gate | Melbourne Theatre Company
At 11.50am on October 15 1970, 35 men fell to their death as their place of work gave way from under them.
Heathers The Musical
Capturing the essence of its predecessor, Heathers The Musical is an absurdly comic production that doesn’t just walk the line of polite society but plans to blow it all up with reckless abandon.
The Glass Menagerie | Melbourne Theatre Company
This Glass Menagerie is top shelf, and while blessed with an extraordinary cast and the highest of production values, it will not meet with everyone’s measure of how this play should be staged.
Swan | Elf Lyons
Quirks of the source – and of the environment that sustains it – are cleanly exposed in a high-energy hour of physical comedy, delivered with moments of avian grace.
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It feels that the show hasn’t quite worked out what point it wants to make.