AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 113

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.

Celebrate award winning hits with sensational songs & singing at Absolutely Everybody Loves the Movies on Saturday 8th of September at Deakin Edge from 3pm.

The words and music of acclaimed American musician, singer-songwriter satirist and Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer is celebrated in TOMFOOLERY.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has achieved its highest attendance on record for the year ending July 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 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 new program of events bringing everyone's favourite pixelated games to life in a retro gaming festival.

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.

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 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.

Our lives are an accumulation of every parent and grandparent and great-grandparent and great- great.

Baby Bi Bi Bi is a wickedly funny, often filthy cabaret about being a bisexual woman.

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.

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.

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.

Sydney based indie ensemble make their Melbourne debut with a bold new devised adaptation of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.

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 - fe

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Queerness and clowning collide in a beautifully funny remix of Shakespeare's most iconic tragedy.

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.

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.