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Details: 27 April 2015

The Book of Mormon – the musical written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez – is coming to Australia.

Details: 21 April 2015

Last night, April 20, the Green Room Awards Association announced this year’s recipients of 60 awards made across the performing arts industry for works seen on Melbourne stages during 2014.

Details: 12 March 2015

Chapel Off Chapel

Born in 1995 this March Chapel Off Chapel will shed the torn jeans of its teenage years for a glamorous 20th birthday bash.

Details: 17 September 2013

MTC’s Season 2014 features eleven mainstage plays, two add-on productions, and two education shows.

Details: 19 December 2012

Adopting a practical approach, participants will work with teaching artists to explore techniques for creating non-naturalistic ensemble and solo performances, text-based monologues and the analysis of live theatre performance.

Details: 12 December 2012

Melbourne's iconic Butterfly Club has called for community help for a necessary relocation from South Melbourne to the city centre in February 2013.

Details: 06 December 2012

Arts Centre Melbourne Chief Executive Judith Isherwood today expressed the sadness felt at the centre and around the world at the passing of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE today.

Details: 23 November 2012

Midsumma, Melbourne's annual festival of queer arts and culture will mark its 25th year in 2013 with an exciting program in celebration of the milestone and the past, present and future of the city's vibrant and diverse GLBTI community.

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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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