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Details: 09 March 2011

The most exhilarating and diverse Melbourne International Jazz Festival program to date, was last night officially launched by the Victorian Premier and Minister for the Arts, Ted Baillieu MLA.

Details: 24 February 2011

Chairman of the Melbourne Theatre Company Board, Derek Young today announced Brett Sheehy as the new Artistic Director and Chief Executive for Melbourne Theatre Company.

Details: 15 February 2011

The Green Room Awards Association announced the nominations today for their 2010 Awards for excellence on the Melbourne stage.

Details: 31 January 2011

This year Theatre Works will offer a fresh and exciting selection of the best and brightest independent theatre from Melbourne and interstate … the very best of contemporary practice across drama, dance, physical theatre and music theatre.

Details: 17 December 2010

Melbourne Festival President Carrillo Gantner today announced the departure of Festival General Manager and Head of Programming, Vivia Hickman.

Details: 07 December 2010

After fifteen years as Artistic Director and CEO of leading Australian and world-renowned dance company, Chunky Move, Gideon Obarzanek has announced that he will be stepping down at the end of 2011.

Details: 25 November 2010

Melbourne Festival has announced that the final box office takings for 2010’s Festival have exceeded the previous record set in 2009.

Details: 30 October 2010

Producer John Frost today revealed the full cast of the explosive new musical romance Doctor Zhivago.

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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.