AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 110

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.

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.

Melbourne Theatre Company will present three events as part of MPavilion's 2018/9 program, including one of New York's most eminent young theatre directors, Lila Neugebauer, in conversation with MTC Literary Director Chris Mead on Thursday 6 December.

As it enters an inspiring and invigorating period, Australia's pre-eminent contemporary music ensemble, the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO), will premiere six new commissions this November in Australia, England and Poland.

What happens after the end, after you find 'The One'?

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.

Elaine Crombie (Black Comedy), Nicholas Denton (Wild) Kamil Ellis (Nowhere Boys), Tahlee Fereday (Fallen), Tony Nikolakopoulos (Wentworth) and Calen Tassone (Red Dog), star in the world premiere of Astroman, Albert Belz's irresistibly funny and heart-warming love letter to the `80s.

SPIN is a dance party like no other.

The 2018 Victorian State Schools Spectacular (VSSS) will showcase 3000 young performers from more than 200 schools across Victoria for two shows today 15th September at Hisense Arena.

Back by popular demand, the previously sold out Melbourne Music Bus Tour returns this October for 12 guided tours until March 2019.

Mad World takes audiences into a crazy, twisted and dark cabaret club, transporting our cast and audience back to Berlin, 1940.

Melbourne's favourite comedic improvisers will create seven original whodunnits from thin air in Murder Village, playing at this year's Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Lateral Events is pleased to announce that Olivia Newton-John has accepted an invitation to appear in live events on stage in Sydney and Melbourne in September, in conversation with Ray Martin.

Brisbane audiences are in for a Christmas treat this year with a brand new theatre production of Charles Dickens' beloved A Christmas Carol coming to the Playhouse at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from 7 to 16 December 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.

With Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's EVITA coming to Arts Centre Melbourne this summer, Collingwood brewery  Stomping Ground Brewing Co will be celebrating the spirit, sounds, smells and tastes of Argentina by creating a colourful, engaging and fun pop-up beer garden.

Chasing his Heart with its suitcase full of memories, Scott Wings embarks on a playful odyssey through the body for Melbourne Fringe 2018.

Lateral Events is pleased to announce that Olivia Newton-John has accepted an invitation to appear in live events on stage in Sydney and Melbourne in September, in conversation with Ray Martin.

Queenslanders Christen O'Leary and Leon Cain will join a stellar line up of talent announced for the triumphant stage adaption of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, for the strictly limited season at the Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from 27 November to 9 December 2018.

After twelve years at the artistic helm of the 'choir that inspired the nation' in the ground breaking, award winning ABC TV series 'Choir of Hard Knocks', Founding Artistic Director Dr Jonathon Welch AM announced his retirement last week from the choir at the end of December 2018.

SET IN A SLEEPY TOWN - a bunch of guys are jostling to 'bone' Cindy first, she's 'digging' the attention, but it's all her dad's fault.

This October, wit incorporated brings A Hero's Guide to Saving the Planet to Braybrook, for free! Flying, dancing and saving the planet are all in a day's work for Captain Eco and The Green Defender in this environmental superhero story for all ages.

Rock Bang is a circus rock opera - it's an energetic concoction and spectacle that shows off some extremely pliable acrobatics with one of the most solid and infamous musical duos ever created.

Following a critically acclaimed tour across Australia, Intoxication comes home for its final season at Melbourne Fringe 2018.

The fabulous sounds and styles of the 1960's and 70's comes to life with brilliant recreations of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons' music as the four seasons of their rise and demise is recounted from four differing viewpoints