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Details: 02 June 2008

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions announced today that the smash-hit Billy Elliot the Musical will open in Melbourne, December 2008.

Details: 09 May 2008

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival today announced $9,754,400 in box office for the recent 2008 Festival, an increase of 6% on last year’s record breaking Festival.

Details: 03 May 2008

After 4 years of planning and preparation and a season in Sydney, Kookaburra, Australia’s only national musical theatre company, announced this week that it finally lands in Melbourne with Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Tell me On a Sunday.

Details: 28 April 2008

A gift of song originally established by late Melbourne restaurateur and patron of the arts Mietta O’Donnell, and which now bears her name, will reach a significant milestone this year.

Details: 28 April 2008

'All the world’s a stage’ and on Anzac Weekend Castlemaine became the stage for the Australian Poetry Centre’s inaugural Regional Festival, Harmonic Threads

Details: 21 April 2008

The Green Room Awards Association yesterday announced its 2007 Award recipients at a ceremony at the Arts Centre hosted by the irrepressible Julia Zemiro.

Details: 15 April 2008

Melbourne Theatre Company proudly announces that the name of the main auditorium in the new MTC Theatre in the Southbank Cultural Precinct will be the Sumner Theatre in honour of the Company’s Founding Director

Details: 14 April 2008

For the first time ever, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s most prestigious annual award, the Barry Award, was awarded last night in a tie to Kristen Schaal (USA) As You Have Probably Never Seen Her Before and Nina Conti (UK) - Complete And Utter Conti

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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.