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Details: 26 September 2007

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Phillips last night announced MTC’s Season 2008, 11 plays and a special studio presentation to Feed Your Soul.

Details: 17 September 2007

The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is proud to announce the inaugural Australian visit of German oboist and conductor Hansjorg Schellenberger.

Details: 14 September 2007

With staged readings by Max Gillies and Richard Murphet, Melbourne University will host a symposium examining the influence of the period of Australian theatre - 1967-1970.

Details: 07 September 2007

The 25th annual Melbourne Fringe Festival launched yesterday with great fun and fanfare and announcement that this anniversary also celebrates the largest festival in the event’s history.

Details: 03 September 2007

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Phillips today launched mtc@home, a $5 million capital fundraising campaign for the Company’s two new homes in the heart of the Yarra Arts Precinct – the MTC Theatre and MTC HQ.

Details: 07 August 2007

With exciting new dates in the USA and China confirmed, Chunky Move, Victoria's flagship contemporary dance company, will be notching up 205,000 kilometres this year and confirming its position as Australia’s biggest contemporary dance export.

Details: 02 August 2007

Ross Mueller, has won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year for 2006 for his evocative play The Glory.

Details: 31 July 2007

Today at Melbourne’s Federation Square, the Australian cast of Monty Python’s SPAMALOT, was announced under a massive inflatable recreation of Monty Python’s iconic “Foot of God”.

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.
The Brut Truth: A Champagne Comedy Tasting | Prétentieux vin Branleur
It feels that the show hasn’t quite worked out what point it wants to make.