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Who’s Talking? reveals what your high school teacher really thought of you. Whether they believed your lame excuses, wanted to say to the Year 8 boy who refused to leave the class and more with hilarious stories of schoolroom antics. 

Who’s Talking? reveals what your high school teacher really thought of you. Whether they believed your lame excuses, wanted to say to the Year 8 boy who refused to leave the class and more with hilarious stories of schoolroom antics. 

The queer black comedy Trophy Boys will tour nationally this year including a return to Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio for a limited season in August. Learn more here!

Get ready to laugh Australia and New Zealand with Becky Lucas as she tours Things Have Changed, But The Essence Remains. She comes to Melbourne Comedy Festival this week.

This April Monkey Baa Theatre Company will return to Melbourne with its popular production of Josephine Wants to Dance at The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts.

DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL, the performance adventure based on Dav Pilkey’s worldwide bestselling book series, returns to Melbourne these Spring school holidays for 10 performances. Learn more here!

Hot off the heels of Adelaide's Fringe, Popera is back, debuting new songs and intimate moments at The Motley Bauhaus this April for four shows only. Leanr more here!

RISING, Melbourne’s winter festival of new art, music and performance, has announced its 2025 program featuring; 65 events, 327 artists, 15 new commissions, 9 world premieres, 5 Australian and 10 Victorian.

Lime Cordiale has announced an epic live concert experience with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the Lime Cordiale with the Symphony Orchestras tour.

This coming 2025 festival season Katie Reddin-Clancy will bring her brand new theatre show End Game to Melbourne. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!

The Choir of Hard Knocks has announced their upcoming concert, Singing in Harmony, to be held on the final day of Harmony Week, Sunday 23rd March at 3pm, in magnificent St Michael's Uniting Church, right in the heart of the city.

Due to huge ticket demand, Frontier Touring and MG Live have added a second Melbourne and second Brisbane show to Jimmy Barnes' now 8-date DEFIANT TOUR for June 2025.

To mark this year's 50th anniversary of NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the strength, vision and legacy of Yorta Yorta/Yuin composer and soprano Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO.

Here You Come Again, the musical comedy packed with Dolly Parton's greatest hits, is heading to Australia. Performances begin in July. Learn more about the show here!

After captivating Australian audiences in 2019 with a stand-out performance at the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, Anna Setton returns to Australia for her second national tour.

 The darker edges of art and culture collide in a new exhibition from Kitty Calvert (artists Phill Calvert and Julia Brampton) and Photo maker and visual artist, Robert Earp. 

YIRRAMBOI will return to Arts Centre Melbourne with a selection of works including three world premieres, one Australian premiere and one Australian exclusive.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will support Australian Designer Steven Kahlil's Grand Showcase runway at the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival with a live orchestral performance.

Stagebugs Productions will bring the musical magic of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown back to The MC Showroom this April. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra CEO Richard Wigley has announced the appointment of German-based Australian violinist Natalie Chee as the next MSO Concertmaster, commencing in January 2026.

Get the hottest dating tips with self-taught feminist, iPod DJ and Lynx Africa afficionado Steve Porters in his one-man character comedy show, Steve Porters - How To Flirt: The TED XXX Talk at Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will present the return of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Concert. Learn more about the upcoming concert here!

Due to the huge demand for Katy Perry's dynamic performances, 2 new and final Australian shows in Sydney and Melbourne have been added to the tour itinerary.

Step front of stage Karen Cecilia, Theremin player and theatre performer who will present her show TIMESTAMP at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 with the Theremin front and centre.

Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has announced that the national Charity Partner for the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie will be the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).