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Details: 04 September 2008

VCA Drama is proud to announce that Simon Stone has been awarded the prestigious $20,000 George Fairfax Memorial Award.

Details: 27 August 2008

Victoria’s state opera company, Victorian Opera, today announced that its fourth season will be its biggest yet, with four mainstage operas to be presented alongside a range of other opera concerts and activities.

Details: 10 August 2008

Melbourne-based company Full Dress Productions announced thus week the establishment of a performing arts publishing division, Full Dress Publishing.

Details: 23 July 2008

The new Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust, launched last night, has initiated the introduction of the first Master of Opera program at The University of Melbourne in 2012

Details: 18 July 2008

The 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival program was launched this week by the Minister for the Arts, Lynne Kosky

Details: 14 July 2008

Sydney soprano Maria Okunev has won the 10th Mietta Song Recital Award. Maria Okunev impressed the judges with her outstanding performances of songs by Mahler and Elgar.

Details: 08 July 2008

Australia’s finest period instrument orchestra, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, has begun making a home in Melbourne.

Details: 12 June 2008

The major event on the dance calendar – the Australian Dance Awards, will premiere in Melbourne’s Arts Centre, State Theatre this Sunday 15 June

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West Gate | Melbourne Theatre Company
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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.
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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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