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Physical Comedy BALLS DEEP Hits The Butterfly Club as Part of Melbourne Comedy Fest
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2017
Businessman Charles Horse is arse over tit in a world of strange pleasure, whipped cream and doodles with eyes. An erotic physical comedy created and performed by professional weirdo and idiot, Cam Venn.
The Butterfly Club Presents THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2017
Slightly inept, awfully inapt, and endlessly inane, The Gospel According to Matthew is a satirical sermon regarding life, death, and whether one can truly be called an artist without a MacBook and a chai latte.
Arts Centre Melbourne's Jazz High Tea Series Returns this Year
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2017
???????The time has come to pop on your favourite vintage frock or lounge suit and prepare for a luxurious afternoon of delicious treats and soulful jazz. Arts Centre Melbourne's decadent Jazz High Tea series returns in 2017 with more performances and special sessions for children and their families.
Catherine McClements and Kate Atkinson to Star in the World Premiere of THREE LITTLE WORDS
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2017
Catherine McClements (Tangle) and Kate Atkinson (Wentworth) star in the world premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith's brand new razor-edged comedy, Three Little Words. Opening on Saturday 22 April at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, this new Australian play is a sharp social observation about friends, relationships and the complexities of navigating through the everyday upheavals of life.
Comic Romesh Ranganathan Heads to Australia on IRRATIONAL Tour
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2017
???????Romesh Ranganathan is heading to Australia for the first time with his current show exploring the rationality of his worldview.  Irrational will see Romesh examine the issues close to his heart, and explains why everybody else is wrong about them.
CAMERATA Comes to the Concert Hall at QPAC Today
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2017
Music lovers are urged not to miss the gala season opener for the magnificent Camerata in the Concert Hall at QPAC today 3rd March.
BWW REVIEW: Kate Mulvany Delivers Shakespeare's Sinister King RICHARD 3 With Delicious Depth
by Jade Kops - March 02, 2017
eter Evans (Director) re-imagines Shakespeare's RICHARD 3 with Kate Mulvany presenting a deliciously evil expression of the vile, murderous, manipulative King.
THE DIVINATION AGENCY Comes to The Butterfly Club
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2017
What happens after we die? Do ghosts exist? And can we talk to them? Suspend your disbelief on this dreamlike journey into the rift between the spirit world and charlatans. Written and created during an Icelandic winter under the Northern lights, The Divination Agency is a new theatre work by creative producer Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman featuring original artwork, puppetry and projected animation.
The Butterfly Club to Present The Architects of Sound: Arena Spectacular in Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2017
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2017
The Butterfly Club is proud to present The Architects of Sound: Arena Spectacular as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2017.
JAMES HALLORAN'S DEBUTANTE BALL Comes to the Butterfly Club
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2017
???????Vocalist James Halloran twists the carnal and the weird into his musical inventions - sensitive, aggressive, irresistible. His soaring voice commands that you hang on each creative exquisite note. 
BWW Review: LADIES IN BLACK is a New Australian Triumph at the Regent Theatre
by Victoria Beal - March 01, 2017
Tim Finn's new musical Ladies in Black is critically acclaimed and award-winning…and it deserves it all and more. Returning to Melbourne for an encore season, this wonderful musical is based on Madeleine St John's 1993 novel, The Women in Black, and has been excellently brought to the stage by Australian screenwriter Carolyn Burns and director Simon Phillips (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Love Never Dies).
BWW REIVEW: Michael Gow's AWAY Remains Relevant As A Message Of Understanding, Patience, Care And Compassion
by Jade Kops - March 01, 2017
First performed in 1986, based in 1968, this 2017 interpretation of Michael Gow's snapshot of Australiana, AWAY is kept relevant and fresh under Matthew Lutton's direction for Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre.
CLEAVE: Sex, Blood, Freaks and World Class Puppet Magic in a Stunning Solo Theatrical Production by Colleen Burke
by BWW News Desk - February 28, 2017
Daisy and Violet Hilton were conjoined twins born in 1908 in Brighton, England. They were the highest paid Vaudeville act of the 20s and 30's. Colleen Burke was born with twin internal sex organs, and had a 'twin' sister who was born with cerebral palsy. Cleave is a night of intimate storytelling and puppetry that intertwines the narratives of these two sets of most unusual twins.
BWW REVIEW: David Walliams' Endearing Tale Of Inclusion, Acceptance and And An Aromatic Vagrant Comes To Life In MR STINK
by Jade Kops - February 27, 2017
Maryam Master's adaptation of David Walliams' popular children's book MR STINK returns to the Sydney stage under Jonathan Biggins' direction.
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Comedy Theatre
by Victoria Beal - February 27, 2017
The Play That Goes Wrong starts subtly with a member of the audience brought up on stage to lend a hand to two hopeless stage technicians, Trevor and Annie. They are setting the stage for a performance of Murder at Haversham Manor by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society. With fireplace mantles falling down and doors that won't close (and then won't open), we are introduced to the slapstick nature of the show.
Arts Philanthropist Betty Amsden AO Passed Away
by BWW News Desk - February 27, 2017
Melbourne Theatre Company is deeply saddened by the news that Betty Amsden AO passed away over the weekend.
The Spooky Men's Chorale Prepare To Lay The Country To Waste on 2017 Tour
by BWW News Desk - February 27, 2017
The Spooky Men's Chorale, the de facto archdeacons of low frequency vocal mayhem, have performed at festivals and concerts all over Australia and internationally, including six critically acclaimed tours of the UK.
G'DAY HABIBI Showcases What It's Like Growing Up as a Lebanese-Australian
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2017
Body hair, cultural clashes and veganism - just a few of the issues confronting 24-yearold Danielle Faour. G'Day Habibi is a musical exploration of life's contradictions when you're a half-Lebo, half-Aussie girl.
The Spooky Men's Chorale to Spread Vocal Mayhem Across Australia
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2017
The Spooky Men's Chorale, the de facto archdeacons of low frequency vocal mayhem, have performed at festivals and concerts all over Australia and internationally, including six critically acclaimed tours of the UK. 2017 will see these fifteen magnificent, craggy specimens of latter day masculinity undertake their most ambitious Australian tour to date.
Weeping Spoon Returns to MICF with THE BALLAD OF FRANK ALLEN
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2017
From the bizarre mind of Festival-favourite Shane Adamczak (Trampoline, Zack Adams, 3x Canadian  Just For Laughs Award Nominee and producer of the Award-winning Fringe hits This Is Not A Love Song and Vicious Circles) comes a brand new comedy about how even the smallest people can do big things. 
The Cheese Girls Serve Up an Evening of Burlesque, Cabaret, Drag and Sideshow
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2017
The Cheese Girls, born in the award-winning all female circus Chest of Wonders, will bring you to your knees with their unique and sexy style of comedy burlesque. However, these talented babes learned to dance before they could talk, and so will be taking their first step into the world of MCing. Every night The Cheese Girls will serve you a different delicious platter of some of Melbourne's hottest new and established burlesque, boylesque, cabaret, drag and sideshow performers.
CinemaLive Presents COPPELIA In Theatres
by BWW News Desk - February 24, 2017
CinemaLive, one of the market leaders in Event Cinema, are working in a partnership with The Australian Ballet to deliver The Fairy Tale Series, a series of three world premieres, to cinema audiences, allowing these world-class productions to be seen by an international audience.
BWW REVIEW: The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir's Staged Concert Of HANDEL'S MESSIAH Is A Feast For The Senses
by Jade Kops - February 24, 2017
HANDEL'S MESSIAH, one of the most iconic Baroque works is finally given the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's exquisitely emotive and expressive treatment under the baton of Artistic Director and Conductor Paul Dyer.
BWW Review: DELIGHTS AND DEBAUCHERIES ABOUND IN ASIATOPA XO STATE at Arts Centre Melbourne
by Brodie Paparella - February 24, 2017
If you've been in the habit of blinking lately, you might have missed the fact that Arts Centre Melbourne has transformed to house the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts, so you might want to cut that out and head to a box office hashire hashire! What transpired on my visit was one of the most tantalising entertaining bewildering evenings this reviewer has thus far ever experienced.

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