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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.

Details: 10 August 2010

Join Melbourne Festival for a very special experience that reveals the extraordinary rhythm of the everyday, in the Pop-Up Project, a playful new initiative set to infiltrate the city on Saturday 16 October.

Details: 28 July 2010

Chairman of the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Board, Derek Young today announced that after more than 10 years at the helm of one of the most successful theatre companies in Australia, MTC Artistic Director and Chief Executive Simon Phillips would leave his roles with MTC at the conclusion of the 2011 Season.

Details: 14 July 2010

The 25th Melbourne Festival, and the second under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, was launched on Tuesday night, 13 July, announcing a dynamic and emotive program of work from some of the finest creative minds of our times.