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Soloist Lixsania Fernandez Comes to Australia This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2018
Charismatic Cuban Lixsania Fernandez takes on Baroque tango, & Shaun Lee-Chen enters the Labyrinth... 'easy to enter, difficult to exit'
DOTS+LOOPS LIMINALITY FESTIVAL Comes to Melbourne Next Month
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2018
Independent artist-run initiative, Dots+Loops, is expanding nationally this year, following the remarkable success enjoyed by its post-genre concert series productions over the past four years in Queensland.
Free Melbourne Concert Celebrates A Living Legend Of New Australian Classical Music
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2018
Celebr-eighteen! The Lim Portrait Concert is a unique opportunity to experience the performance of a program of large works created by one of Australia's most highly regarded contemporary classical music composers, Liza Lim, and performed by musicians from the respected Arcko Symphonic Ensemble and the Melbourne Conservatorium Of Music.
SENIOR MOMENTS Returns With a New National Tour
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2018
After sell-out shows around the country, the hilarious comedy revue Senior Moments is back by popular demand for a new national tour from February 2019, with the legendary John Wood, Max Gillies, Benita Collings and Geoff Harvey returning with a cast of young and old in this senior theatrical smash-hit.
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Opens For First Time In Queensland
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2018
After playing 135 cities in 29 different countries around the world, Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical will sashay into the Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from 26 September 2018 for the show's Queensland premiere season.
Gabriel Iglesias Announces January 2019 Australian Tour
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2018
What a way to start the new year, with comedian Gabriel Iglesias bringing his One Show Fits All World Tour to Australia in January 2019.
Arts Centre Melbourne Presents WOLFGANG'S MAGICAL MUSICAL CIRCUS
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2018
The wonderful, wacky and wigged world of classical music's favourite child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be brought to the stage in Circa's exciting new family show Wolfgang's Magical Musical Circus at Arts Centre Melbourne from 2 -12 January 2019.
WHIPLASH Wrestles Onto The Dancehouse Stage
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2018
Chasing his Heart with its suitcase full of memories, Scott Wings embarks on a playful odyssey through the body for Melbourne Fringe 2018.
Arts Centre Melbourne Presents Roald Dahl's GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2018
Roald Dahl's much-loved book George's Marvellous Medicine will be brought to life at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse from 25 - 29 September as part of a national tour. Dahl's classic tale bounds off the page and onto the stage in a spectacular live show for all ages.
Arts Centre Melbourne Presents GOTHIC
by BWW News Desk - September 24, 2018
Gothic, a multidisciplinary, eerie and elegant music performance which surveys European, Australian and American expressions of 'gothic' from medieval to contemporary times will be performed at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse on 25 November.
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Opens For First Time In Queensland
by BWW News Desk - September 24, 2018
After playing 135 cities in 29 different countries around the world, Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical will sashay into the Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from 26 September 2018 for the show's Queensland premiere season.
The Coming Back Out Ball is Coming Back Out By Popular Demand
by BWW News Desk - September 24, 2018
The second Coming Back Out Ball returns this October - it's a spectacular social event at the Melbourne Town Hall celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) elders aged 65+.
SONGS FOR SWINGIN' LOVERS To Premiere In Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - September 23, 2018
StageArt and Phoenix Productions have announced the professional premiere of Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, which will play at Prahran's Chapel off Chapel for two swingin', toe tapping and fever raising performances on October 20 and 30.
SCHOOL OF ROCK To Hold Pride Night
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber's irresistible rock musical, School of Rock is partnering with Australia's largest LBGTIQ youth organisation Minus 18 to present Pride Night @ School Of Rock at Her Majesty's Theatre on Wednesday 5 December at 7.30pm.
Internationally Celebrated String Quartet, Orava Quartet, Returns To Sydney And Melbourne This October
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2018
Australia's Orava Quartet brings their unique brand of youthful intensity and passion to the Sydney Opera House's Utzon Room for one night only, Friday 26 October, performing Haydn, Schulhoff and Debussy in a concert titled 'Czech Fantasy'. Their Melbourne performance, at the Melbourne Recital Centre, will take place on Thursday 25 October
MTC And CAAP Present Longhouse: Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2018
Melbourne Theatre Company and Contemporary Asian Australian Performance are partnering to present Longhouse: Melbourne, an evening of conversation about diversity and representation on stage and screen on Thursday 4 October at Southbank Theatre, The Lawler.
Objects of Fame: Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger Comes to Grainger Museum
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2018
The lives of two of Australia's most talented, world renowned musicians of their time will be revealed in Objects of Fame: Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger, a new exhibition at the Grainger Museum which follows the huge success of Synthesizers: Sound of the Future.
BWW REVIEW: Hal Prince's Original West End And Broadway Staging Of EVITA Is Revived For A New Generation With Mixed Results In Sydney Australia
by Jade Kops - September 20, 2018
Following a successful restaging in South Africa and Singapore, Associate Director Dan Kutner brings the revival of Hal Prince's original West End and Broadway staging of EVITA to Australia with a predominantly Australian cast for Sydney and later Melbourne audiences.
MOCKINGBIRD, A Darkly Comic Journey Through Postnatal Depression And Back, Comes to Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2018
For the first time in Melbourne, following sell-out seasons in Sydney, New Zealand and Norway.
StageArt Brings Broadway Showpiece NINE The Musical To Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2018
StageArt brings Broadway masterpiece NINE - The Musical to life at Prahran's Chapel off Chapel from Oct 12 - 28, with tickets now on sale.
Artists Explore Death And Dying Across The City in Series of New Works
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2018
In a series of nine new and captivating works that expand the notion of mortality and tackle the taboos of peoples inevitable demise, Arts House invite audiences to dig deep into death, dying, grief and celebration in playful and surprising ways.
Todd Mckenney And Rachael Beck To Star In New Australian Production Of BARNUM
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2018
BARNUM, one of Broadway's most treasured musicals, returns to Australia in an all-new spectacular production. From visionary director Tyran Parke, this new production of a favourite Broadway classic, originally starring Jim Dale and Glenn Close, followed by a London West End production starring legendary Michael Crawford will play an exclusive engagement at Melbourne's most intimate professional musical theatre venue, the Comedy Theatre for a strictly limited time from April 2019.
Speak Percussion Presents The World Premiere Of POLAR FORCE
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2018
Antarctica's beauty and infinite complexity will be explored in the world premiere of Speak Percussion's Polar Force, an immersive and live music performance combining custom-built instruments with pristine field recordings within a white inflatable space at Arts Centre Melbourne. The work, presented from 24 November - 1 December, draws upon the hundreds of hours of recordings by Dr Philip Samartzis made during his two Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowships.
The Listies Bring Laughter For Both Young And Old To The Hawthorn Arts Centre
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2018
Australia's favourite kidult comedians, The Listies, have packed up their toilet paper guns and inflatable snot monster and are bringing Ickypedia to the Hawthorn Arts Centre on Friday 28 September.
Five Women Deconstruct Melbourne's Night Club Culture In FREEFALL, Premiering At The Melbourne Fringe Festival
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2018
A murky recollection of the extreme highs and lows from a night out with the girls in a highly physical performance featuring DJ Mortice and Tension.

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