Theatre & musicals
See big names and blockbuster productions in historic theatres, and discover local talent with new work on tiny stages hidden in laneways.
Regional plays & musicals
29 Jun 2013
Based on the book written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Julie Vivas Grandma Poss made bush magic. She made Wombats blue and Kookaburra's pink,...
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17 Sep 2013
39 Steps is a fast-paced, side-splitting comedy featuring over a hundred characters played by four actors. Based on the 1935 Hitchcock spy thriller...
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20 - 21 June 2013
Millie Dillmount has moved to swinging 1920's New York to escape her small town existence and maybe be modern. Her daring plan is to find a...
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2 - 3 September 2013
Based on the books written by Duncan Ball. The story of adventurous heroine Emily, born with an extraordinary gift, an eye on the end of her finger....
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19 - 20 July 2013, 26 - 27 July 2013
If you enjoy amature theatre this event is for you. The local group is the Wangaratta Players. Their production of Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot...
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29 Jun 2013
The Play "His Mother's Son" - The Story of Ellen Kelly Performed by Christine Middleton & Matiss Schubert. Musical entertainment featuring Robyn...
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20 - 21 June 2013
Millie Dillmount has moved to swinging 1920's New York to escape her small town existence and maybe be modern. Her daring plan is to find a...
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22 Jul 2013
Til the Black Lady Sings in Company is an autobiographical musical which builds on the content of Deborah Cheetham's acclaimed play White Baptist...
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25 Jul 2013
Before television the mass medium of entertainment was the radio. Tune in Tomorrow recalls the highlights of entertainment in the era before the...
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28 Jun 2013, 26 Jul 2013, 16 Aug 2013, 20 Sep 2013
Be abused by Basil, amused by Manuel and charmed by Sybil as the cast perform this fabulous, hilarious and truly chaotic show amongst the restaurant...
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Melbourne plays & musicals
9 May - 29 Sep 2013
A smash hit in New York and London, LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL is the funniest and most fabulous musical around! Playing at Melbourne's Princess...
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16 May - 21 Jul 2013
Neon sees us open our doors for the first time to the independent theatre community. We are excited to invite five of Melbourne's top independent...
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17 May - 22 Jun 2013
The original West End production of the most successful comedy ever staged by Britain's illustrious National Theatre tours to Melbourne, directed by...
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18 May - 23 Jun 2013
'All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey', 'Birds singing in the sycamore tree… dream a little dream of me' You know the songs and you love the...
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22 May - 23 Jun 2013
Magnormos theatre company is thrilled to present the return of 'flowerchildren', the exciting musical about the turbulent private lives of The Mamas...
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5 Jun - 6 Jul 2013
Twenty-something odd couple Justine and Michael share a flat and a deep dependence on one another. Justine is a workaholic who wears her heart on her...
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7 Jun - 20 Jul 2013
'Solomon and Marion', a delicate and beautifully wrought South African drama, heralds another Australian debut of exceptional new international...
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15 Jun - 31 Dec 2013
Join a cast of 40 actors, singers, dancers and puppeteers as they bring to life the world of King Kong in 1930s New York City and Skull Island.
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19 - 22 June 2013, 26 - 29 June 2013
Stylish, bold and contemporary, "One False Move. . . " is a quirky circus montage of dynamic aerial escapes, comic acrobatic chases and dangerous...
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19 Jun - 7 Jul 2013
Part burlesque, part Greek tragedy, The Penelopiad -Penelope's Story veers from hilarity to horror. A witty, radical inversion of the myth of...
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22 Jun - 3 Aug 2013
MTC presents an indisputable masterpiece of twentieth century theatre is revisited in this landmark production, with David Wenham tackling one of the...
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22 Jun - 3 Aug 2013
An indisputable masterpiece of 20th-century theatre is revisited in this landmark production, with David Wenham tackling one of the most challenging...
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25 - 30 June 2013
Four Letter Word Theatre is proud to announce its first original development. Chiasmus: to shape like the letter X - A figure of speech in which two...
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27 Jun - 14 Jul 2013
An actress loses her power to speak and soon finds the boundaries between her identity and that of her nurse dangerously unstable. Adena Jacobs'...
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27 Jun - 14 Jul 2013
A dragon has held sway over a cowering village for centuries, when a brave Lancelot arrives to vanquish the beast. The problem? The townsfolk have...
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5 Jul 2013
RON: "Good evening. At 10. 23pm on January 24, my doctor gave me three months to live. By my calculations, that leaves me with exactly. . . 111...
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10 Jul - 11 Aug 2013
Finucane & Smith return from storming Australia, London, Sweden and Paris with their wild winter institution, The Glory Box. This time the Glory Box...
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17 - 21 July 2013
Slava's Snowshow, the multi award-winning international sensation which has delighted and thrilled audiences in more than 120 cities around the...
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17 - 28 July 2013
Following his sensational performance as part of Cirque du Soleil's 'Alegria', Slava went on to create his own Slava's Snowshow which has become a...
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20 - 27 July 2013
In 1884, a 25-year-old French Impressionist named Georges Seurat began work on ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’, an idyllic park...
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23 Jul - 3 Aug 2013
Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour's audacious theatrical experiment will come as a shock - not least to the performer handed the script the moment...
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31 Jul - 4 Aug 2013
Widely recognized as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, Einstein on the Beach will return to Australia for an exclusive...
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2 - 10 August 2013
Angela Carter's feminist classic goes head-to-head with Bartok's mighty opera in this cross-artform battle to the death. The fairytale of Bluebeard's...
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5 - 18 August 2013
This show is an affectionate, irreverent rollercoaster ride from fig leaves to final judgment as the boys tackle the great theological questions: Did...
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7 - 11 August 2013
"Breathtaking, beautiful and inspiring. . . take along every little dancer in your family" - Buzz Magazine, Chicago Entertainment Following their...
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8 - 11 August 2013, 13 - 18 August 2013
"An apocalyptic 'what if?' fantasy from a master of his craft. . . brilliant, beautiful and painful. . . a ferocious production unafraid to challenge...
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9 - 25 August 2013
For more than a decade, playwright Lally Katz has been one of Australia's foremost fabulists, trekking off to the furthest coasts of the imagination...
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10 Aug - 7 Sep 2013
Before 'Tap Dogs' and 'The Boy from Oz', 'Hot Shoe Shuffle' paved the way as the first Australian musical to succeed both at home and...
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10 Aug - 25 Sep 2013
Taking the nation's theatres by storm, Helpmann Award-winning director Simon Stone makes his long-awaited MTC debut with a unique adaptation of one...
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10 - 25 August 2013
Stomp is back, and it's better than ever! Following their acclaimed performance at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, STOMP returns to...
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10 Aug - 25 Sep 2013
Taking the nation’s theatres by storm, Helpmann Award-winning director Simon Stone makes his long-awaited MTC debut with a unique adaptation of one...
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16 Aug - 8 Sep 2013
Multi award-winning playwright Patricia Cornelius has created a dynamic new Australian play - Savages - which takes a tough look at masculinity and...
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24 Aug - 28 Sep 2013
Australia's best-known playwright, David Williamson, returns to MTC as we've never seen him before, using the greatest media scandal of modern times...
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12 Sep - 6 Oct 2013
Replaced by a suite of Swedish minimalist homewares, a pile of abandoned furniture awaits a trip to the tip. As the hour of judgement approaches, the...
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8 - 27 October 2013
Bringing together the country's finest creative talents including Tom E. Lewis (The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith) and Jimi Bani (Mabo), this majestic...
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8 - 27 October 2013
Bringing together the country's finest creative talents including Tom E. Lewis (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Jimi Bani (Mabo), this majestic...
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1 Nov - 14 Dec 2013
Dr Martin Luther King Jr has stood high upon the mountaintop and he's seen the Promised Land. But on this rainy night in 1968 he mostly feels...
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1 Nov - 14 Dec 2013
Dr Martin Luther King Jr has stood high upon the mountaintop and he’s seen the Promised Land. But on this rainy night in 1968 he mostly feels...
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13 Nov - 1 Dec 2013
When life gets too difficult, it's time to create a new superhero. With a waiting room full of hopeful actors, the quest is on to find 'the one' who...
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18 - 25 November 2013, 27 Nov - 4 Dec 2013, 6 - 13 December 2013
Experience Opera Australia’s complete staging of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, an extraordinary 16 hours of opera spread over four performances.
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27 Nov - 22 Dec 2013
Few Australian productions take New York by storm, and fewer are created especially for young people. The Book of Everything has changed all that....
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1 Jun 2014 (dates to be confirmed)
Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Boublil & Schönberg's legendary musical, LES MISÉRABLES, will arrive in Australia in 2014. With...
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