AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 142

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By 2050 will there be more plastic in the ocean than fish? Not if local superheroes have anything to say about it.

Producer John Frost today announced the casting of the principal roles in Melbourne's summer musical Dream Lover - The Bobby Darin Musical, which plays at Arts Centre Melbourne from December 29th for a strictly limited season.

Imagine Dante's journey into the Inferno, but set in 2017.

Maintaining its reputation as Melbourne's home of all things experimental and contemporary, Arts House launches a brave and bold new season featuring a diverse program of events, installations, performances and conversations.

Melbourne Theatre Company today launched its NEXT STAGE Writers' Program, a $4.

Red Line Productions is thrilled to present the world premiere of This Much Is True, written by one of Australia's leading playwrights Louis Nowra, for a limited season at the Old Fitz Theatre from July 12.

As a work of contemporary musical theatre, Ordinary Days never garnered the same acclaim as comparable works created around the time.

In her first production with Bell Shakespeare, acclaimed theatre director Anne Louise Sarks will present a new, contemporary production of the Shakespeare classic, The Merchant Of Venice.

"Our adrenaline was pumping so intensely that Dmitry and I just had to burn off some more energy," says Artistic Director Paul Dyer of a performance during Dmitry Sinkovsky's debut season with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in 2014.

Gad Elmaleh is one of the biggest and most recognizable comedic talents in the world, with a number of exciting projects in the works.

TEG-DAINTY announced today that Queen + Adam Lambert will embark on a 5-city arena tour of Australia in February and March 2018.

Australia's favourite kids' comedians, The Listies, will present the world premiere of their stage adaptation of their best-selling book Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting New Words at Arts Centre Melbourne from 11-15 July.

Melbourne comedy-cabaret star Tash York is on a mission to figure out the in's and out's of being a grown up with her brand new show "Adulting" for the Melbourne Cabaret Fringe.

Following a hugely popular Brisbane season, Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre's co-production of Noises Off will ignite even the chilliest of winter days and have audiences in stitches when it opens on Wednesday 12 July at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse.

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Acclaimed playwright, poet and performer Inua Ellams will bring to life a modern day fable about brotherhood in a globalised world in his one man tour-de-force, Black T-shirt Collection at Arts Centre Melbourne from 5 - 10 September.

Touted as the 'shortest musical ever' 21 Chump Street is a superbly crafted 15-minute piece written by the immensely popular Lin-Manuel Miranda for a live show of acclaimed radio/television program This American Life.

Born from a enthusiasm for disco and an appreciation for the returning popularity of the variety show, VELVET is a night of sheer entertainment.

Following her sold out performances at The Brisbane Cabaret Festival, QUEENIE VAN DE ZANDT brings her new cabaret show BLUE: The Songs Of Joni Mitchell to Melbourne and Sydney!

BERT "The Machine" KREISCHER is an American stand-up comedian, actor and reality television star who is touring Australia for the very first time and appearing at Sydney's Just For Laughs Comedy Festival.

Based on the 1891 German play of the same name by Frank Wedekind and winning 8 Tony Awards in 2007, Spring Awakening is one of those rare musicals to have attained something of a cult status - the kind of show that people will claim changed their lives forever.

There is nothing much unfamiliar about the very real invasions of privacy, hyper-surveillance, augmentation of technology, flaws in cybersecurity, and moderate resurgence of feudal attitudes we experience in life that art often imitates.

Music Theatre Melbourne has announced the full cast for its exciting new concert production of Australian rock musical PARIS, which pays homage to one of Australia's great performers, Jon English.

For seven whole earth years The Big HOO-HAA! has been Melbourne's most beloved, longest running and best smelling weekly improv night.