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Details: 30 October 2010

Glasses were lifted and toasts were raised as MKA Richmond opened its doors to the artists of Australia.

Details: 10 October 2010

The Melbourne Fringe Festival Awards were announced to a capacity crowd in the Fringe Club late last night. The awards celebrate and acknowledge the diversity, professionalism and exceptional quality of work in this year's festival.

Details: 06 October 2010

The Famous Spiegeltent is returning to the Arts Centre’s forecourt from 11 February to 24 April 2011.

Details: 06 October 2010

Melbourne Festival has announced that Brett Sheehy has been re-appointed as Artistic Director for the 2012 Festival, taking his tenure to a four Festival term.

Details: 22 September 2010

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Phillips yesterday announced MTC Season 2011, his last for the Company.

Details: 02 September 2010

The 2010 Melbourne Fringe Festival program was launched in inner city Melbourne today by Minister Bronwyn Pike and Lord Mayor Robert Doyle.

Details: 31 August 2010

Melbourne Theatre Company is proud to announce this year’s Emerging Artists appointments.

Details: 25 August 2010

Melbourne will play host to its first ever staging of Wagner’s epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) when Opera Australia brings this gargantuan production to the magnificent State Theatre in 2013.

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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.
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.