AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 134

The 2017 Poppy Seed Theatre Festival is like a large mixed bouquet of everyone's favourite flowers no two options are the same, but they all beautiful.

Following rave reviews and standing ovations, the producers of SELF have added an extra show to allow audiences another chance to witness one of the must-see experiences of this year before it closes this Sunday.

On Friday, October 6, Wordless Music returns to Melbourne as part of the 2017 Melbourne Festival, with the world premiere of Terrence Malick's VOYAGE OF TIME: the epic documentary project three decades in the making that sees Malick turning attention to the grandest of stories.

Award-winning UK author Cressida Cowell's heart-warming tale Emily Brown and The Thing will be brought to life at Arts Centre Melbourne Fairfax Studio this summer from 3 - 14 January, 2018.

Triple ARIA winning, Cairo-born oud virtuoso, Joseph Tawadros AM, is on tour from mid October with more than 20 concerts across several continents.

The upcoming 2018 season at The Old Fitz will feature 3 World Premieres (including a musical), 3 Australian Premiers, 2 Sydney Premieres, and 2 Of the great contemporary love stories.

After two smash-hit Sydney seasons, the hilarious comedy revue Senior Moments is back for its first national tour from February 2018, with the legendary John Wood and Max Gillies now joining Benita Collings and Geoff Harvey in the senior theatrical sensation.

This October, wit incorporated presents the Victorian premiere of Outside In by Hilary Beaton, playing at Bluestone Church Arts Space from 20 October to 4 November.

This is how we do it Australia! The 90s are back with 'I Love the 90s: The Party Continues heading back downunder this March.

Winners of the 2017 Australian Dance Awards were announced tonight, Sunday 24 September, at the Arts Centre Melbourne.

Melbourne's favourite weekly improv comedy show is doing it again - 24 hours of non-stop improvised comedy.

A 90 minute thrill ride to the most dangerous place on earth: Parenthood.

It cannot be underestimated, the place of an audience in the energy of a show and their collective states of mind.

TWISTED BROADWAY is coming back to Melbourne bigger, better and more twisted than ever at the spectacular Regent Theatre on Monday 2nd October.

Ugly Duckling, written by Spanky and performed by Karla Hillam, breathes new life into the tale we all know about the awkward protagonist coming into their own.

Melbourne Theatre Company's acclaimed production What Rhymes with Cars and Girls has hit the road, opening in Geelong tonight, Thursday 21 September, before travelling to Bendigo, Sydney and Brisbane.

One of Australia's best-loved singers, Tina Arena, will perform at the City of Stonnington Mayor's Charity Gala hosted by Cameron Daddo, Thursday 12 October 2017.

Save the date! The Ballarat Cabaret Festival is back in the spotlight, taking centre stage in Ballarat from 5 - 8 October.

Earlier this month, the Rob Guest Endowment held auditions in Melbourne and Sydney to search for this year's winner of the Rob Guest Endowment Award.

QV Melbourne is celebrating spring in the city with Fresh / Take, a program of events that offers a new approach to wellness, living and thinking.

Singing sensation, vaudeville vamp and rock'n'roll hell-cat Christa Hughes proudly returns to Arts Centre Melbourne with the Victorian debut of Oz Rockin' The Ladies Lounge on 9 November 2017.

We know that Absolutely Everybody Loves the 60's!! Come and join us at the School of Hard Knocks fab, groovy celebration of the psychedelic 60's on Sunday the 24th of September at Deakin Edge from 3pm.

The Very Good Looking Initiative are back with a show that is the comedy-theatrical version of the sensation you get at the end of a YouTube Hole, and if you think Family Guy knows how far they can stretch a joke, wait until you see Let's Get Practical! Live.

Fiona Scarlett hates 'love'.

Melbourne is the city to be in if you love food and cabaret and Michelle Pearson's Comfort Food Cabaret is the perfect combination of both.