AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 140

Sharp-witted online superstar Josh Wade has been selling out stand up shows across the country since he was just 15 years old! Now in 2017 Josh is back with a brand new show Me, Myself & Cunny.

Voted as the Best British Sitcom of the 21st century by the Radio Times in the UK, Mrs Brown's Boys will make a triumphant return to Australia in 2018.

Did you know that one in six couples struggle with fertility?

The nominees for one of the country's most prestigious performing arts awards, the Australian Dance Awards (ADA), were today announced.

TEG DAINTY announced last month that Myer will present global pop superstar KATY PERRY's WITNESS: The Tour, which will come to Australia next July and August in support of her new album Witness.

The original, largest and widely regarded as the world's greatest live celebrity tribute show, Legends in Concert, returns by popular demand to The Palms at Crown Melbourne in January 2018 for a two week-long encore anniversary engagement celebrating summer during the Australian Open Tournament.

Speak Percussion return to Arts House this September with the world premiere of Assembly Operation, a work which manufactures high quality sounds by crunching and grinding low worth goods.

Glen Street Theatre is proud to announce the program for the inaugural Cabaret in the Glen, the first cabaret festival on Sydney's Northern Beaches and North Shore.

Bonnie Lythgoe's (Producer and Director) production of THE ADVENTURES OF PETER PAN AND TINKER BELL in RETURN TO PANTOLAND continues what is becoming a Sydney Winter tradition of Pantomime performances.

You asked for it Melbourne, and we heard you! The Australian Musical Theatre night of nights, TWISTED BROADWAY is coming back in 2017 at the spectacular Regent Theatre on Monday 2nd October.

Nadine Garner (The Doctor Blake Mysteries), Belinda McClory (The Waiting Room) and Mandy McElhinney (Love Child) form the sterling cast of Di and Viv and Rose, opening Thursday 17 August at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.

The question of who is in control will be explored in the premiere of Arena Theatre Company's new work for young adults, Trapper at Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio from 3 - 5 August.

MTC's highly successful production of Macbeth will now play until Thursday 20 July with two extra and final performances added to its already extended season at Southbank Theatre.

The 2017 Melbourne Cabaret Festival Fringe is back after receiving rave reviews, Green Room Award nominations and sold out houses.

40 Australian songwriters and composers across the categories of Popular Contemporary, Classical, Jazz, Film & Television, Country, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander andDance/Electronic have today been announced as finalists in the 2017 APRA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS (PDAs).

It's a 'big bright beautiful world' for everyone's favourite ogre in SHREK THE MUSICAL JR.

After playing to full houses and dazzling crowds across Australia, finally Melbourne audiences will get the chance to see A Fine Romance: The Magic of Fred Astaire at Chapel off Chapel from 10 October 2017 for a strictly limited season.

Moira Finucane's The Rapture: Art vs Extinction fully immerses its audience into what can only be described as a hybrid form of boutique theatre.

This beautiful, touching and often hilarious series of songs celebrates the lives of friends, relatives and long-lost pets, paying tribute to those have passed on.

Sally Bowles is the last to let go of the 'old Berlin.

Following the phenomenal success of their double-platinum selling Christmas #1 UK album, Together and major sold out tours of the UK, Live Nation today announced that musical theatre legends MICHAEL BALL and ALFIE BOE will bring their Together tour to Australia this October.

Get your kids airborne this school holidays!

Whet your appetite in a thoroughly gin-soaked way with Mother's Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin, performed by Libby Wood, Maeve Marsden and new addition Tom Dickins.

Paul Dainty, President and CEO of TEG DAINTY promoted Katy's 2014 Australian tour and said today, "The response we received from the 2014 tour was phenomenal with Katy performing a staggering 23 shows across the country.

Arts House is presenting a series of installations, performances, spoken-word events, readings and conversations during July, which will reveal and explore the complex relationships of place and belonging.