AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 112

Last night at the Australian Writers' Guild's annual AWGIE Awards PJ Hogan was honoured with the Music Theatre Award and the 2018 David Williamson Prize for Muriel's Wedding the Musical.

The Melbourne premiere of the children's classic Emil and the Detectives is set to captivate audiences both young and old, when the critically acclaimed Adelaide-based theatre company Slingsby comes to the Alexander Theatre on Saturday 8 September.

Following the critical and public success of Tristan and Isolde and Der Rosenkavalier, Melbourne Opera will complete its powerful 2018 season with the Australian premiere of Rossini's dramatic masterpiece Otello.

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

A centuries-old gargoyle atop a church is struck by lightning, plummets into the river below - and is miraculously given life.

From the romantic streets and canals of Venice, comes the exquisite and captivating story of NINE ­- The Musical.

Fifteen bodies surface in the wake of a disaster.

How is it possible in 2018 that music unheard for hundreds of years is still being discovered?

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

Menangle five-piece The Rubens will perform for audiences across the country this November and December in celebration of their third studio album LO LA RU (out now via Ivy League Records).

Muriel's Wedding The Musical will play a strictly limited season in Melbourne at Her Majesty's Theatre from March 2019 before returning to Sydney in July 2019 playing at the Sydney Lyric Theatre.

In the early morning of August 26, following an appearance in Melbourne, as part of the TWIN PEAKS CONVERSATION WITH THE STARS Australian tour, AL STROBEL suffered a minor heart attack.

Following its acclaimed season last year, Bangarra Dance Theatre returns to Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC) Playhouse from 24 August to 1 September with its major new dance work Dark Emu.

Global music legend Phil Collins is set to make his long-anticipated return to Australia with his Not Dead Yet: Live! tour, presented by TEG Dainty.

Queensland Ballet affirms its standing as one of Australia's leadings arts organisations with the exciting announcement that its acclaimed production of A Midsummer Nights Dream will have its Melbourne premiere this October, followed by a three week tour of China in November.

Punctum Inc's Pavilion Project has been selected as one of nine game changing projects across the state joining forces with community organisations to help tackle some of the state's biggest challenges with support from the Victorian Government's new Future Makers for Change program.

Alex Williamson - one of Australia's most popular comedians and social media creators - has played six comedy festivals across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, eleven shows in England and Ireland and a 14-date tour of greater Australia in 2018 alone.

Returning this October, the second iteration of Circus Oz's Sidesault at The Melba festival will feature six local, national and international circus companies who will present experimental works that challenge and push the notions of contemporary circus.

Following its sold-out run at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in 2016, shake and stir theatre co's stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's family favourite George's Marvellous Medicine returns to the Cremorne Theatre from 21 August to 5 September 2018, with new performances added due to popular de

Due to popular demand, Melbourne Theatre Company's season of A Doll's House, Part 2 has been extended until Tuesday 18 September, with two new performances added.

I See Me & Meryl Streep charts the extraordinary life and talents of the most celebrated actress of modern times.

Linda Cropper (Offspring) stars alongside Nicholas Bell (North By Northwest), Johnny Carr (What Rhymes with Cars and Girls) and Stephen Phillips (Winners & Losers) in the world premiere of Aidan Fennessy's The Architect, a suspenseful and heartfelt rumination on what makes life worth living, opening

Chloe Black is no spring chicken.

For one day only, today 17 August 2018, QV Melbourne will host a community event that aims to give back to the local community and make a difference to the lives of local children, by supporting the important work of The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation Melbourne.