Tom Lehrer's TOMFOOLERY Comes to Melbourne Fringe
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
The words and music of acclaimed American musician, singer-songwriter satirist and Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer is celebrated in TOMFOOLERY. The musical revue comes to Melbourne for a limited season as part of the Melbourne Fringe from 12 - 22 September 2018 at Gasworks, Albert Park.
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
The words and music of acclaimed American musician, singer-songwriter satirist and Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer is celebrated in TOMFOOLERY. The musical revue comes to Melbourne for a limited season as part of the Melbourne Fringe from 12 - 22 September 2018 at Gasworks, Albert Park.
QPAC Celebrates Record Season
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has achieved its highest attendance on record for the year ending July 2018.
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has achieved its highest attendance on record for the year ending July 2018.
Artlands Victoria Weaves Innovative Research And New Ideas Into Regional Cultural Practice
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Over five days in October, international, national and local speakers will share knowledge, trade resources and exchange gifts at Artlands Victoria - a national platform for over 700 delegates to learn and understand innovative research and new ideas into regional cultural practice.
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Over five days in October, international, national and local speakers will share knowledge, trade resources and exchange gifts at Artlands Victoria - a national platform for over 700 delegates to learn and understand innovative research and new ideas into regional cultural practice.
Australia's Hottest Drag Queens Hit The Road With Prada's Priscillas: An All-Male Revue
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Australia's most sought after drag queens will take to the stage in the glittering drag spectacular, Prada's Priscillas: An All-Male Revue, touring across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland from September through November.
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Australia's most sought after drag queens will take to the stage in the glittering drag spectacular, Prada's Priscillas: An All-Male Revue, touring across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland from September through November.
QV Melbourne Presents Game/On: A Retro Gaming Festival
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
QV Melbourne presents Game/On, a new program of events bringing everyone's favourite pixelated games to life in a retro gaming festival.
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
QV Melbourne presents Game/On, a new program of events bringing everyone's favourite pixelated games to life in a retro gaming festival.
MTC Presents A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Marta Dusseldorp (Janet King), Deidre Rubenstein (Ladies in Black), Greg Stone (The Weir) and Zoe Terakes (Janet King) star in the Australian premiere of Tony Award-nominated drama A Doll's House, Part 2, directed by 2018 Helpmann Award nominee and MTC Associate Director Sarah Goodes.
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2018
Marta Dusseldorp (Janet King), Deidre Rubenstein (Ladies in Black), Greg Stone (The Weir) and Zoe Terakes (Janet King) star in the Australian premiere of Tony Award-nominated drama A Doll's House, Part 2, directed by 2018 Helpmann Award nominee and MTC Associate Director Sarah Goodes.
Taiwanese-Inspired Cabaret Comes to Melbourne Fringe This September
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Emerging Australian-Taiwanese artist, Lansy Feng, is set to make her Melbourne Fringe debut this year with her cabaret, How I Met My Dead Husband.
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Emerging Australian-Taiwanese artist, Lansy Feng, is set to make her Melbourne Fringe debut this year with her cabaret, How I Met My Dead Husband.
Sacred Heart Mission Announces Lineup For Heart Of St Kilda Concert
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Sacred Heart Mission has announced another fantastic line-up for its 11th annual fundraiser, The Heart of St Kilda Concert, at the Palais Theatre St Kilda, on Tuesday 23 October.
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Sacred Heart Mission has announced another fantastic line-up for its 11th annual fundraiser, The Heart of St Kilda Concert, at the Palais Theatre St Kilda, on Tuesday 23 October.
FOREIGN WOMAN Cabaret Comes to The Butterfly Club
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Our lives are an accumulation of every parent and grandparent and great-grandparent and great- great...grandparent having stories that led us here to Melbourne.
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Our lives are an accumulation of every parent and grandparent and great-grandparent and great- great...grandparent having stories that led us here to Melbourne.
BABY BI BI BI Comes to Melbourne Fringe Festival
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Baby Bi Bi Bi is a wickedly funny, often filthy cabaret about being a bisexual woman. With seven original songs and an all female, mostly queer team, Baby Bi Bi Bi explores the questions we're still asking ourselves and the questions we wish dudes called Brent would stop asking us at parties.Baby Bi Bi Bi is the comedy cabaret bringing what it means to be a bisexual woman to the centre of it all…no a bit to the left…up a tad...right there!
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2018
Baby Bi Bi Bi is a wickedly funny, often filthy cabaret about being a bisexual woman. With seven original songs and an all female, mostly queer team, Baby Bi Bi Bi explores the questions we're still asking ourselves and the questions we wish dudes called Brent would stop asking us at parties.Baby Bi Bi Bi is the comedy cabaret bringing what it means to be a bisexual woman to the centre of it all…no a bit to the left…up a tad...right there!
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TAMING OF THE SHREW to Play The Melbourne Fringe
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2018
10 things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew will take you back the good old days, when we worried about Y2K, wore butterfly clips in our hair, and became total babes the minute we took off our glasses.
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2018
10 things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew will take you back the good old days, when we worried about Y2K, wore butterfly clips in our hair, and became total babes the minute we took off our glasses.
SON OF A BITCH Comes to Melbourne Fringe
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2018
In what could be the strangest example of audience heckling in 2018, comedian Felix Castaner (22) has capitulated, allowing his own mother to hijack his Melbourne Fringe premiere. Castaner suggests that he merely "asked for a ride so I could afford some beers instead of paying for an uber" when his mother "jumped up onto stage in the middle of my tight five and started trying her own material...".
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2018
In what could be the strangest example of audience heckling in 2018, comedian Felix Castaner (22) has capitulated, allowing his own mother to hijack his Melbourne Fringe premiere. Castaner suggests that he merely "asked for a ride so I could afford some beers instead of paying for an uber" when his mother "jumped up onto stage in the middle of my tight five and started trying her own material...".
Five Women Deconstruct Melbourne's Night Club Culture In FREEFALL, Premiering At The Melbourne Fringe Festival
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 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.
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 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.
THE THREEPENNY OPERA to Open in Melbourne This September
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2018
Sydney based indie ensemble make their Melbourne debut with a bold new devised adaptation of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2018
Sydney based indie ensemble make their Melbourne debut with a bold new devised adaptation of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
Singing Group IL DIVO Returns to Australia
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
In Australia from Thursday 23 to Monday 27 August, Il Divo (original members Spain's Carlos Marin, Switzerland's Urs Buhler, France's Sebastien Izambard and America's David Miller) will discuss the release of their first album on the Decca Gold label, as well as their impending Australian tour - featuring all the songs from their new album.
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
In Australia from Thursday 23 to Monday 27 August, Il Divo (original members Spain's Carlos Marin, Switzerland's Urs Buhler, France's Sebastien Izambard and America's David Miller) will discuss the release of their first album on the Decca Gold label, as well as their impending Australian tour - featuring all the songs from their new album.
POTTED POTTER Returns To Australia
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
Playing to sold-out houses all over the world, POTTED POTTER takes on the ultimate challenge of condensing all seven Harry Potter books (and a real-life game of Quidditch) into seventy hilarious minutes. This fantastically funny show features all your favourite characters, a special appearance from a fire-breathing dragon, endless costumes, brilliant songs, ridiculous props and a generous helping of Hogwarts magic!
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
Playing to sold-out houses all over the world, POTTED POTTER takes on the ultimate challenge of condensing all seven Harry Potter books (and a real-life game of Quidditch) into seventy hilarious minutes. This fantastically funny show features all your favourite characters, a special appearance from a fire-breathing dragon, endless costumes, brilliant songs, ridiculous props and a generous helping of Hogwarts magic!
BWW Review: THE BOY FROM OZ Reminds Us Why We Still Call Peter Allen a Legend at Arts Centre Melbourne
by Brodie Turner - August 13, 2018
In this their 20th year, The Production Company has continued to bring long-loved musical theatre stories into a tier of the professional sector that fosters new talent, puts Australian superstars in dream roles, and delivers to the letter on that wholesome energy Broadway and West End are known for, right in the heart of Melbourne. The Boy from Oz is no exception, known as 'the great Australian musical' for its depiction of one of Down Under's most treasured exports, the legendary Peter Allen. This production is neck-deep in nostalgia and ocker charm, while keeping a firm grip on Allen's camp and charismatic persona for which he became famous...well that and all the hits! I Honestly Love You, I Go to Rio and I Still Call Australia Home are given a glittering treatment in a show spackled with sparkle.
by Brodie Turner - August 13, 2018
In this their 20th year, The Production Company has continued to bring long-loved musical theatre stories into a tier of the professional sector that fosters new talent, puts Australian superstars in dream roles, and delivers to the letter on that wholesome energy Broadway and West End are known for, right in the heart of Melbourne. The Boy from Oz is no exception, known as 'the great Australian musical' for its depiction of one of Down Under's most treasured exports, the legendary Peter Allen. This production is neck-deep in nostalgia and ocker charm, while keeping a firm grip on Allen's camp and charismatic persona for which he became famous...well that and all the hits! I Honestly Love You, I Go to Rio and I Still Call Australia Home are given a glittering treatment in a show spackled with sparkle.
iDenTITTY Comes to The Butterfly Club
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
Kitty Van Horne is returning to The Butterfly Club this October to reconnect with the birthplace of her debut cabaret baby - iDenTITTY - A cabaret adventure into the world of breast ownership.
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
Kitty Van Horne is returning to The Butterfly Club this October to reconnect with the birthplace of her debut cabaret baby - iDenTITTY - A cabaret adventure into the world of breast ownership.
National Institute Of Circus Arts (NICA) Holds Nationwide Auditions
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
Australia's premier circus arts organisation, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), is undertaking a nationwide audition roadshow in search of Australia's future circus stars.
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2018
Australia's premier circus arts organisation, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), is undertaking a nationwide audition roadshow in search of Australia's future circus stars.
The Four Tops Announce Shows In Melbourne And Sydney
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2018
For more than Sixty Years THE FOUR TOPS, a vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan helped define the Legendary Motown sound with a repertoire that included Soul Music, R&B, Adult Contemporary and Jazz. Their first Motown hit, "Baby I Need Your Loving" in 1964, made them stars and their sixties track record on the label is indispensable to any retrospective of that decade. Their songs, soulful and bittersweet, were across-the-board successes. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", a No.1 R&B and Pop smash in 1965, is one of Motown's longest-running chart toppers, followed "It's The Same Old Song"; "Reach Out I'll Be There"; "Standing In The Shadows Of Love"; "Bernadette"; "It's All In The Game"; "Still Water (Love)"; "You Keep Running Away", and many more. THE FOUR TOPS are a one-in-a-million singing group.
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2018
For more than Sixty Years THE FOUR TOPS, a vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan helped define the Legendary Motown sound with a repertoire that included Soul Music, R&B, Adult Contemporary and Jazz. Their first Motown hit, "Baby I Need Your Loving" in 1964, made them stars and their sixties track record on the label is indispensable to any retrospective of that decade. Their songs, soulful and bittersweet, were across-the-board successes. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", a No.1 R&B and Pop smash in 1965, is one of Motown's longest-running chart toppers, followed "It's The Same Old Song"; "Reach Out I'll Be There"; "Standing In The Shadows Of Love"; "Bernadette"; "It's All In The Game"; "Still Water (Love)"; "You Keep Running Away", and many more. THE FOUR TOPS are a one-in-a-million singing group.
Queer Clowns Mangle Shakespeare for Melbourne Fringe
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2018
Queerness and clowning collide in a beautifully funny remix of Shakespeare's most iconic tragedy. After a sensational sold out debut season at Midsumma Festival 2018, theatre mischief makers and real life queer couple, Kimberley Twiner and Lily Fish present Not Romeo and Juliet at Melbourne Fringe.
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2018
Queerness and clowning collide in a beautifully funny remix of Shakespeare's most iconic tragedy. After a sensational sold out debut season at Midsumma Festival 2018, theatre mischief makers and real life queer couple, Kimberley Twiner and Lily Fish present Not Romeo and Juliet at Melbourne Fringe.
Curious Cat Presents THE 3 MUSKETEERS
by BWW News Desk - August 11, 2018
Join The 3 Musketeers and their young friend D'Artagnan in a fast-paced romp through 17th-century France - a rip-roaring, gender-bending, breakneck tale of passion and intrigue, comedy and tragedy, with splashes of music.
by BWW News Desk - August 11, 2018
Join The 3 Musketeers and their young friend D'Artagnan in a fast-paced romp through 17th-century France - a rip-roaring, gender-bending, breakneck tale of passion and intrigue, comedy and tragedy, with splashes of music.
Arts House Will Present Refuge 2018: Pandemic
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2018
Over the past twelve months for the third iteration of Refuge's five-year project, the City of Melbourne's Arts House has led a unique conceptual inquiry that interrogates different concepts to be prepared for pandemic threats.
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2018
Over the past twelve months for the third iteration of Refuge's five-year project, the City of Melbourne's Arts House has led a unique conceptual inquiry that interrogates different concepts to be prepared for pandemic threats.
2018 Orlando Fringe Award Winner F*CKBOYS THE MUSICAL Makes International Debut At Melbourne Fringe Festival
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2018
Fresh off a sold-out run and Critics' Choice Award winner at the Orlando Fringe Festival in 2018, F*ckboys the Musical will make its international debut at this year's Melbourne Fringe Festival 18-23 September.
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2018
Fresh off a sold-out run and Critics' Choice Award winner at the Orlando Fringe Festival in 2018, F*ckboys the Musical will make its international debut at this year's Melbourne Fringe Festival 18-23 September.
Reggie Watts Announces FINALLY BACK IN AUSTRALIA Tour
by BWW News Desk - August 09, 2018
Reggie Watts returns to Australia for AAMI Just For Laughs Sydney as well as shows in Melbourne and Brisbane.
by BWW News Desk - August 09, 2018
Reggie Watts returns to Australia for AAMI Just For Laughs Sydney as well as shows in Melbourne and Brisbane.
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