AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 119

Fresh from crawling out of the ancient skin of Quentin Crisp, multi-award winning Australian performer Paul Capsis returns to what he loves doing best - singin' tunes in an exclusive three-night season at MEMO Music Hall St Kilda.

After the 2016 sell-out tour, Larks in Transit, the UK's very own straggle-haired polymath, Bill Bailey, returns to Australia with his new comedy and music extravaganza, Earl of Whimsy.

The sophomore Provocare Festival is returning to spice up the Melbourne winter with a program that will really knock you out of hibernation.

After a successful workshop Above The Arts Theatre in London's West End, producer Joe C Brown in association with The MC Showroom will present a Melbourne run of the comedy cabaret The Worst Little Warehouse In London.

Pablo Francisco will rock the house with screams of laughter.

On Friday CHVRCHES released their highly anticipated new album Love Is Dead, which is receiving fantastic reviews and has just scored the coveted Feature Album slot on triple j.

Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini, Australian theatre producer John Frost and leading UK theatre producer David Ian today announced that their upcoming production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's EVITA will be Melbourne's Summer Musical in 2018-9.

Joseph Tawadros AM, 4 times ARIA awarded composer and oud virtuoso is on the final stretch of a tour promoting his new album The Bluebird the Mystic & the Fool.

Following sell-out shows in London, Edinburgh and Adelaide, Qadita production's TAHA, the award winning lyrical story of the life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali will be presented in the State Theatre for 6 shows only from July 10-14 as part of Art Centre Melbourne's Big World, Up Close series

Australian music trailblazer Mojo Juju pulls back the curtain on the raw, honest and intrinsically political stories behind the songs in her third album, Native Tongue, in a live performance at the Fairfax Studio from 8 - 11 August as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's Big World, Up Close series.

Following a critically acclaimed season at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having received two top awards and multiple five-star reviews, South African theatre production The Fall will make its Australian debut in the Fairfax Theatre for six shows only from August 28 to September 2 as part of

The UK's critically-acclaimed show BEYOND THE BARRICADE, will make its debut in Australia this year, touring to 24 cities from 1st June.

From 21st to 23rd June, FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres will present the exciting double bill, Above Ground, exploring the subtleties of above ground movement with apparatus.

Frontier Comedy are thrilled to announce a national tour for Australian-Egyptian comedian and actor Khaled Khalafalla this July.

ARIA award-winning didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton, acclaimed jazz singer Hetty Kate and Melbourne indie songstress Rebecca Barnard (Rebecca's Empire) are among the eclectic all-star line-up of performers featured in Arts Centre Melbourne's new High Tea Live series.

Due to overwhelming popular demand, the Australian professional premiere season of the Broadway hit BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL has been extended.

Bursting onto the scene in 2010, UK four-piece Bastille have become one of the most instantly recognisable and unstoppable pop forces in British music today, with their highly anticipated third album on its way.

The School of Hard Knocks is thrilled to present this year's Melbourne International Singers Festival, celebrating our 9th annual Festival of showcasing world renowned artists, performers and educators.

Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is pleased to announce the 2012 competition winner, Avan Yu, will perform two exclusive recitals in Sydney and Melbourne this June and July.

Final tickets for the acclaimed Melbourne season of The Wizard of Oz will go on sale on Friday 25 May at 4pm from ticketmaster.

Arts Centre Melbourne and the Australian Music Vault are calling all Australian music fans to share their Favourite Australian Music Experience (FAME).

The feminista supernovas of Retro Futurismus return to fortyfivedownstairs this winter to premiere a new hyper-real show, Brave World, that will fillet the future and conjure grand visions from obsolete technologies.

Melbourne Theatre Company's world premiere production of Hungry Ghosts commences its regional tour in Bendigo today before going on to play at five other leading performing arts venues in Victoria, as well as Launceston College in Tasmania.

Internationally acclaimed contemporary dance-theatre company Marrugeku presents the world premiere of Burrbgaja Yalirra (Dancing Forwards) from 7-16 June at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).

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