AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 144

Get in quick as tickets go on sale today for the Brisbane season of the global musical phenomenon, MAMMA MIA!   

Get your kids airborne this school holidays!

Filling the National Theatre to its very brim, both on and off the stage, CLOC's production of Les Miserables is remarkable.

After SOLD OUT shows, Melbourne's hottest line-up of emerging comedians is back with a very special line-up of award-winning comedians from TV and radio!

Lucy Durack and Jemma Rix are joining the cast of the world's favourite musical, The Wizard of Oz, to play Glinda the Good Witch and The Wicked Witch of the West respectively, alongside Anthony Warlow who will be playing The Wizard and Professor Marvel.

Frontier Comedy are pleased to announce that due to overwhelming demand, a second and final show at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre (Sat 17 Jun, 7:30pm) has been added to Alan Cumming's upcoming Australian tour.

In an off-broadway cabaret bar in NYC, INSERT NAME has performed on stage with the likes of INSERT IMPRESSIVE LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE.

Producers John Frost and Suzanne Jones are delighted to announce that Lucy Durack and Jemma Rix are joining the cast of the world's favourite musical, The Wizard of Oz, to play Glinda the Good Witch and The Wicked Witch of the West respectively, alongside Anthony Warlow who will be playing The Wizar

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This June, the phenomenal imagination, athleticism and humour of Australia's next generation of circus talents will be on show when the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) presents Circosis: Left Brain, Right Brain, a two-part production of elite-level circus.

The Australian cast of Cyndi Lauper's hilarious and heart-warming new musical Kinky Boots will perform a charity concert at Sydney's Capitol Theatre on Sunday 18 June to raise money for beyondblue.

Producers Global Creatures (CEO Carmen Pavlovic) and Roy Furman are pleased to announce that King Kong, will arrive on Broadway in the fall of 2018 at the Shubert Organization's Broadway Theatre.

A Boston-born Jew in Montreal and a Gaza-born Palestinian in Melbourne have just published the first English-language anthology worldwide in any genre of drama, prose or poetry by Jewish and Palestinian writers.

Fans of the classic film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison will not be disappointed with the recreation of the 1956 stage production of My Fair Lady currently playing Melbourne at the Regent Theatre.

Following its inaugural sell out at Concourse premiere season in March, Melbourne Ballet Company returns with Arche at 7.

Melbourne Theatre Company's world premiere production, Melbourne Talam, will be commencing its regional tour at the Mildura Arts Centre on Tuesday 23 May before going on to play at five other leading performing arts venues in Victoria and Launceston College in Tasmania.

Direct from the prestigious Adelaide Cabaret Festival, musical comedy duo, Roulston & Young bring their smart, funny and 'immensely uplifting' (The Upcoming) original songs to The Butterfly Club for a week from June 20th to 25th.

The Cheese Girls, born in the award-winning all female circus Chest of Wonders, have repeatedly brought audiences to tears with their unique and sexy style of comedy burlesque.

This year Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) celebrates a milestone fiftieth birthday with its premiere ensemble, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, presenting an exhilarating concert, New Worlds, at Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday, 2 July 2017.

In an Australian premiere Arts Centre Melbourne will present Bamboozle Theatre Company's Down to Earth, an intimate, multi-sensory UK production developed exclusively for children with profound and complex disabilities on 10 & 11 June.

Frontier Comedy are pleased to announce that due to overwhelming demand, additional shows at Brisbane's Powerhouse Theatre (Thu 15 Jun, 9:30pm) and Adelaide's Her Majesty's Theatre (Sun 11 Jun, 4pm) have been added to Alan Cumming's upcoming Australian tour.

With a new solo album release, All The Way, Justin Hayward will now embark on his first solo tour of Australia - with two special shows in Sydney and Melbourne in October.

Once upon a time, a god believed that he could save an ancient city from ruin by bringing a dead poet back to life.

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Back by popular demand, celebrated Canadian storyteller, Gillian English is performing her two hit show this June in Melbourne.