AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 137

Stage luminaries Marina Prior (Hello Dolly!) and Simon Gleeson (Les Miserables) lead an irresistible cast including Gareth Davies (The Cherry Orchard), Marg Downey (Top of the Lake: China Girl), Kim Gyngell (Top of the Lake: China Girl), Alexandra Keddie (Offspring), Imogen Sage (Rebecca), Monica Sa

One of Broadway's leading musical theatre and cabaret performers, Liz Callaway, will make her Queensland debut at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) with her intimate cabaret show An Evening with Liz Callaway in QPAC's newly refurbished Cremorne Theatre for two shows only on Friday 13 and Satu

Comedian Brianna Williams would like to introduce you to her Mummy.

This September, The Butterfly Club presents a zany jaunt through musical theatre and light opera classics as Luke Belle grapples with his on and off stage role as long-time sidekick and Sensitive New Age Guy in a world of leading men - Prince Charming, the Hemsworth brothers and Christian Grey.

Melbourne Theatre Company today announced the inaugural writers-in-residence as part of its $4.

Frontier Comedy have just announced the return of US comedian Shane Mauss, performing his acclaimed comedy show about psychedelics A Good Trip at Melbourne's Comics Lounge and Sydney's Comedy Store this October, after taking the show on a 100+ city tour across the US.

Celebrating Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) fifty-year milestone, Moments of Beauty is a series of surprise free concerts throughout some of State Library Victoria's most glorious and intriguing spaces over a five-week program from 27 September - 29 October 2017.

Can a non-binary person win love, succeed in auditions, and keep their job without changing their socks?

BEN VOLCHOK PRESENTS… two episodes of original radio comedy, live on stage! Watch (and listen) as Ben Volchok embodies a whole range of characters to create a hilarious hour-long audiovisual extravaganza.

Melbourne's most debauched alternative-comedy troupe PO PO MO CO takes Fringe audiences through a cocktail mix of cruise ship, tupperware parties and topped with a dash of biting social commentary.

The 2017 National Indigenous Music Awards blew an appreciative Darwin audience away at the iconic Amphitheatre under the stars tonight as Troy Cassar-Daley, A.

A man featured in literature since the 20s and on stage and film since the 70s, Joseph Merrick, otherwise known as The Elephant Man, has had his story told in a myriad of ways - but none quite like this.

Australia's only variety show with a live 5-piece band is coming to Melbourne Fringe this September.

Committed to supporting the current generation of performance makers, the Monash Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA), in conjunction with the Monash University Centre for Theatre and Performance and the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, has commissioned two new Australian works - a physical theatre p

BEN VOLCHOK PRESENTS… two episodes of original radio comedy, live on stage! Watch (and listen) as Ben Volchok embodies a whole range of characters to create a hilarious hour-long audiovisual extravaganza.

Modern love, IKEA, and dating apps collide in Bed Reckoning, the new musical comedy from Darwent & Gray.

Before Mel was born, Wanda was on track to stardom, once even dubbed the 'next Tina Arena' by her high school drama teacher.

Mixing storytelling, stand-up and live music, HOOTING & HOWLING is a real-life, late-night tale of ghost hunting.

Stars of Melbourne's thriving alt-cabaret scene unite to tell their stories in a variety show with a personal twist.

Neo burlesque showgirl, performance artist, and theatre designer, Carletta The Great, dissects her glittery world and serves it up like any self-obsessed 'Melbournian' wanting a new take on an old theme… 'deconstructed!' Laid out on a platter of delightfully surreal madness for you to put the piec

One of Australasia's most well-respected musicians, Lisa Crawley, makes her cabaret debut at this year's Melbourne Fringe, starring as her alter-ego Elizabeth.

Produced and starring Melbourne's own cabaret powerhouse Sophie deLightful, and featuring a rotating list of special guest performers, Diary of a Power Pussy is a tasty snippet of the Power Pussies series already packing out venues in Melbourne and along the East Coast.

After a SOLD OUT season of Jewish-ish at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Michael Shafar debuts his new show Kosher Bacon at Melbourne Fringe Festival.

To celebrate his critically acclaimed new album, The House of Orange, legendary singer songwriter Richard Clapton is hitting the road again for his 2017 National Tour.

StageArt is thrilled to announce the cast for the Australasian premiere of the Tony award-winning Memphis the Musical, which will play at Prahran's Chapel off Chapel from 6 October 2017.