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Trevor Noah To Embark On End Of Days Australian Tour
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2018
Trevor Noah is the most successful comedian in South Africa. He is currently the host of Emmy and Peabody Award winning television show The Daily Show. In 2017 The Daily Show was nominated for a Writers Guild Award (Comedy/Variety Series). Noah also recently won Best Host at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards as well as a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for his hosting of The Daily Show. He returns to Australia for a national tour starting in Melbourne on 23 August.
The Twoks Are Back At The OCG
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2018
The Old Castlemaine Gaol are playing host once more to the amazingly talented and extremely entertaining Twoks.
KwaYa Australia Presents UBUNTU Africa's 'Make That Change' Concert
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2018
KwaYa Australia is excited to present UBUNTU on the 'Make That Change' tour, April to May 2018. Graduates of The African Children's Choir, they will share their poignant stories through song, masterful drumming and mind-blowing dance moves.
A Dream Summer For Arts Centre Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2018
Arts Centre Melbourne's summer visitor numbers exceeded 1.5 million as people soaked up emotive theatre, musical merriment, a huge program of family shows, variety, cabaret and an exhibition, across the venue's Hamer Hall, State Theatre, Playhouse, Fairfax Studio and the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
Max Riebl's 'Hard to Handel' to be Presented at The Butterfly Club
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2018
Max Riebl's 'Hard to Handel' is a virtuosic performance combining high baroque drama with the eerie, nostalgic and dreamy landscapes of early pop.
THE ESCAPE ROOM Comes to Melbourne International Comedy Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2018
The Escape Room transforms a studio space in Melbourne's historic Nicholas Building, opposite the Melbourne Town Hall, into a custom-designed puzzle room for a dark comedy play about team-building and breaking points. The group behind award-winning comedy short, Wibble Wobble, join forces with two mathematicians (read: puzzle nerds!) to create a unique narrative mash-up combining problem-solving and comedy.
New School Holiday Performances Announced For The Wizard Of Oz
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2018
The Wizard of Oz has quickly become Australia's smash hit musical and with great excitement the producers can announce a new release of tickets from July 1 will go on sale this Monday 19 March. This extra release of tickets across the school holidays includes new matinee performances.
The Big HOO-HAA Comes to Melbourne International Comedy Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2018
This all-out battle for comedic supremacy enjoyed a sell-out run at the Festival in 2017 - and this year they're back for more. Only the audience can decide how it's going to end!
The Butterfly Club Presents CHARLES HORSE LAYS AN EGG At The Melbourne International Comedy Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2018
From the fool that brought you Balls Deep (Cam Venn) comes a surreal physical comedy about a giant space chicken that needs impregnating.
Brand New School Holiday Performances Announced For Australia's Favourite Musical  
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2018
Wizard of Oz has quickly become Australia's smash hit musical and with great excitement the producers can announce a new release of tickets from July 1 will go on sale this Monday 19 March. This extra release of tickets across the school holidays includes new matinee performances. 
THE BODYBAG THE PANTO Returns To Sydney And Premieres In Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2018
Multi-award-winning superstar Rachel Marinade (Trevor Ashley) is one of the most successful entertainers ever to have come runner-up on Australian Idol*.  But after a spate of creepy "fan mail" it's clear that Rachel needs protection.  Not only that, after being charged in local court for holding a fake driver's license, she also needs transport.
Australian Premiere of PUFFS Begins this Spring
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2018
Some people are born with the capacity to do great things. Some people change the world. Some people rise from humble beginnings to defeat the forces of darkness in the face of insurmountable odds. PUFFS is the story of the people who sit in class next to those people.
Wanda and Mel return for MICF 2018
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2018
A courageous musical reverie that propels audience members through the joy of '80s power ballads, spontaneous rap and the low- key Millennial angst of modern pop, Wanda and Mel is a cathartic journey that navigates the turbulent waters of diversity, sacrifice and motherhood while being funny AF. Srsly fam, this show is frickidy-fresh - and guaranteed to appeal to mothers and daughters of any age.
Fran Middleton Returns to Melbourne With FRANNY PACK
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2018
Fran Middleton is a stand-up comedian and clowny-type performance artist with a knack for absurdity. Originally from Perth (WAAPA, The Big HOO-HAA!, The Duck House, Bad Egg Boys), Fran is now based in Sydney (The Checkout, Kiki and Kitty).
Ed Britton is GROPING FOR HIS MANHOOD at Tasma Terrace
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2018
Deep down inside Ed always knew he wanted to grow up to be a man. But having lost the manual and with a father too manly for fatherhood, it's been a confusing journey of half-cooked gender stereotypes and outdated idioms.
THE WINE SCIENCE SHOW Comes to The Melbourne International Comedy Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2018
A wine science talk with jokes, answering questions about how much wine you can drink, why you drink, and how come Hungarians are dangerous with Champagne.
Lyric Opera Presents LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS - A Gender Bending, Power-Dressing Cabaret Opera Performance!
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2018
Lyric Opera of Melbourne's 2018 season opens with Francis Poulenc's wacky comedy Les Mamelles de Tiresias (The Breasts of Tiresias). In what must be the craziest opera to ever take to the stage, the heroine explodes gender norms, biological constraints and even her own breasts!
Sumi Jo Returns to Australia In Concert With Jose Carbo
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2018
The internationally celebrated Grammy-award winning coloratura soprano Sumi Jo returns to Australia this July for a series of unmissable concerts in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
New Australian Musical TINDER TALES Comes to The 2018 MICF
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2018
Tinder Tales - A New Australian Musical is a show for anyone who has puked on a first date, spent an hour constructing a five-word text, or gone on a late-night tinder-binge. In a world where true love is just a swipe away and happiness is just another commodity, Tinder Tales asks; does true love exist in a digital age?
Katie Cullinan Returns to The Butterfly Club With a Brand New Cabaret Show, Catastrophist
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2018
Katie Cullinan has had enough, and after an 8 year hiatus, she's back with her brand new cabaret show for 2018! Katie Cullinan: Catastrophist promises to deliver some unlikely (or likely) scenarios that will make you cringe, quiver and crack-up all at the same time.
FALL ON DEATH EARS is a Dark Theatrical Comedy Exploring the Inane, Everyday Experiences of Death Herself
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2018
Death turns up to work each day, coffee cup in hand, and with a sigh, listens to new versions of old stories, bored out of her skull. But there's a twist: Every day, her boss expects her to send home one person to live those extra moments. Her quick tongue gets her through most awkward situations, but how much more of this can she take?
BOMBSHELLS Comes to Bluestone Church Arts Space
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2018
Following on from their recognition at this year's Maribyrnong Civic Awards, wit incorporated are kicking off 2018 with a bang, as they bring the uproarious comedy, Bombshells to Bluestone Church Arts Space.
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT Takes Us Back To a Surprisingly Greener Day at Comedy Theatre
by Brodie Turner - March 05, 2018
It was not that long ago, and a time not unlike that which we live in now, that Green Day released the album American Idiot that narrated a story of the world's greatest nation's underbelly that many sought out through the punk movement to ease the social and political tensions at the turn of the millennium. Now Trump replaces Bush, Parkville replaces Columbine, climate change replaces global warming, South Korea replaces Afghanistan. American Idiot showed the world from the perspective of the middle class white male before we used words like privilege, proto-feminism and appropriation in the way and as frequently as we do today. He was frustrated, compelled to patriotism (or nationalism depending on your circumstances), seeking escape, modelling a tough exterior through whatever styling, attitude and substance would credit it. All the while advances in technology pummel the world's youth with information that elevates and isolates the individual. Such is the environment we are transported into in the musical adaptation of that album so many millennial adolescents leaned on.
Arts Centre Melbourne Presents RUBY'S WISH
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2018
Ruby's Wish, a heart-warming tale of friendship, hope and the blurred lines between fantasy and reality, conceived by performer, writer and comedian Holly Austin, will be presented at Arts Centre Melbourne from 12 - 13 May. The story follows the unlikely friendship between Ruby, a sick seven-year-old confined to her hospital bed and Dot, a socially awkward clown doctor. The pair embark on a series of imaginative adventures that transform Ruby's hospital room into a playful wonderland.
Melbourne's Finest Jazz and Classical Musicians Come Together for 'Echoes Of Earth' Album
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2018
An extraordinary new CD, which sees some of Melbourne's finest classical and jazz musicians coming together for one of the most ambitious recording projects staged at St Andrews Anglican Church, Brighton is soon to be released to the public.

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