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Details: 08 February 2008

It’s last call at The Regent Theatre, the disco ball is spinning, the spotlights are in waiting, and the star is having her shaft cranked for the last time.

Details: 29 January 2008

Jersey Boys – The story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Broadway’s multi Award winning smash hit musical, will open in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre in March 2009.

Details: 22 January 2008

On Sunday January 20, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical celebrated its 500th performance.

Details: 21 January 2008

Four young composers from across Australia are competing to have their compositions performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in its 2008 Metropolis Series.

Details: 15 January 2008

In its 20th incarnation the Brunswick Music Festival celebrates in style with a line-up of the world’s best in world, folk and roots music

Details: 04 January 2008

In 2002 a joke spawned a comedy institution. A handful of local acts appearing that January decided to call their show 'The Hobart Comedy Festival - the world's smallest cultural event'. What was not expected was that immediately there was interest from other states for an opportunity to attend.

Details: 27 December 2007

The winners of Short & Sweet 2007 were announced last night at the Fairfax Studio at the Arts Centre, with 49 Stories about Brian MacKenzie winning the $5,000 prize for Best Overall Production, as well as the Best Director Prize going to Jonno Katz for Bury Your Goldfish.

Details: 23 December 2007

After their return from a two-month residency in Macau, Melbourne based contemporary arts company WELL return to Melbourne to kick start 2008 with their latest project Great Wall of Books

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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.