AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 149

???????After sold-out shows at the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Perth's Fringe World Festival, Michael Shafar debuts Jewish-ish at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

???????Following a sell out season in Sydney, The Kit Kat Club is returning to Melbourne in all its decadence for a new Australian revival of CABARET playing at The Athenaeum Theatre from 27 April.

Joining the 27 Club like many great music legends before her, Amy Winehouse's legacy has truly lived on.

Grammy and Emmy Award winning comedian, actor, director, writer and producer, Chris Rock, will return to Australia as part of his highly anticipated all-new tour THE TOTAL BLACKOUT TOUR 2017.

It's been 40 years since 70s super pop group ABBA first toured Down Under!

Mystery Radio Theatre is a unique live experience - three different comedy/murder mysteries performed in the style of old-timey radio theatre.

???????After seven years on the scene, The Big HOO-HAA! have established themselves as Melbourne's most beloved weekly improv show.

After a critically acclaimed debut at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a smash-hit Spiegeltent run in Perth Fringe World, Australia's favourite improvised musical comedy troupe Impromptunes is taking on Melbourne International Comedy Festival with not one, but two improvised musicals!

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) has announced that Quintessence, a work by noted local composer Dr Fung Lam will be included in the program for its forthcoming tour to Australia.

Enter a world of fantasy in Victorian Opera's transfixing new production of Respighi's The Sleeping Beauty, featuring 27 life-sized puppets, at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse from 11-18 March.

South Australia's strongest festival of the unusual has the honor of helping unveil their most ominous exhibitors so far.

Check out the top stories from Australia you might have missed this week and more!

Madam Elbac, the Ipsie of love from Bosonovia, astounds her audience through her mystic expertise of the metaphysical.

With simply a grand piano and a pair of killer stilettos, 4'11' performer Christina Bianco from New York is a total diva.

American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, Kurt Vile brings his debut solo show to the Concert Hall, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) for one-night only on Today 9 March 2017.

After SOLD OUT seasons at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016 and Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016, The Mighty Littles  are back with a show especially for kids!

The New Plot, developed by 107 and Actor's Centre Australia is thrilled to announce 2 People's Choice  prizes to the already bursting treasure trove available to the 6 shortlisted playwrights whose scripts will be performed in a special 2 week season at 107 in March and April.

After sell-out shows across the country, 3 Course Comedy returns to Melbourne featuring some of the festival's best established and emerging comedians in what ArtsHub calls "a delicious feast of laugh-out-loud material.

Preschool children and their adults are invited on an interactive sea journey at Arts Centre Melbourne, inspired by the seafaring history of Java, Indonesia and a true tale of a small boy's arrival in Australia.

Grammy Award winning band, America, famous for their harmonies and unique sound, has today announced they are returning to Australia in July for shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Wollongong and Canberra, as well as two shows in Queensland.

Surprise, Peppa Pig fans! A brand new, live stage show announced today ensures Peppa Pig will be touring North America through 2017 and beyond.

Phill Jupitus is heading to Australia with his new show 'Juplicity'!  Join the stand-up comedian, poet, improviser, and TV stalwart for over an hour of tales, laughs and diversions.

In a unique collaboration between the Shanghai Ballet and renowned British choreographer Derek Deane, a grand production of SWAN LAKE with 80 dancers, will open exclusively at Melbourne's Regent Theatre on 20th April 2017 for a week of dazzling performances.

The award-winning film ZACH'S CEREMONY will open across Australia from Thursday 30 March.

The funeral service for Miss Betty Amsden, AO DSJ, will be held in the State Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne on Thursday March 9 at 3pm.