AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 151

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 mos

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

From Indonesia's most celebrated director, Garin Nugroho, comes Satan Jawa, a newly commissioned silent feature film steeped in Javanese mythology with a live score by Australia's Iain Grandage and Indonesia's Rahayu Supanggah featuring a thrilling blend of Western symphonic tradition and Indonesian

Following the success of Who's Afraid Of The Dark?, Watson (Tegan Higginbotham, Liam Ryan and Adam McKenzie) are back with a whole new hour of horror-comedy in their brand new show - GO TO HELL!

Part explosive physical-comedy-cabaret, part interactive club night, Glittery Clittery: A ConSENSUAL Party is a cacophony of original live music, epic dance moves, sharply witty feminist observations and all-out-sequined-covered sass.

Kim Salmon (Beasts of Bourbon, Scientists, The Surrealists).

???????From the company that brought you Completely Improvised Shakespeare, Soothplayers proudly present Completely Improvised Potter.

Olivier Award-winning theatre company Mischief Theatre are bringing their comedy masterpiece The Play That Goes Wrong to Australia for the first time from February next year.

Following performances across the globe and a five-year run in the West End, the multi award-winning comedy Stones in His Pockets by Irish writer Marie Jones, will be performed at Riverside Theatres for two shows only on 18th March 2017.

It will be a whole new world for the Sydney hit Aladdin as the multi-award winning Broadway musical takes flight for Melbourne next month.

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting announces its 2017 live online workshop programme, and for the first time offers three international workshops from Australia, India and New York.

St Patrick's Day is fast approaching and Australia's leading Irish pub P.

Legendary multi award-winning singer songwriter John Thorn returns to the Butterfly Club with his acclaimed show 'Background Boy'.

The saying goes that there are no new ideas.

Laugh or your money back.

Producers Michael Harrison, David Ian and John Frost today announced that the Melbourne season of the international award-winning hit musical THE BODYGUARD will play at the Regent Theatre from 24 August.

Don't miss the most uplifting, sassiest new musical to strut into Australia! Kinky Boots must leave Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre on March 26 before its sparkling arrival at Sydney's Capitol Theatre on April 12.

Estimated crowds of between 550,000 and 600,000 visited Melbourne last night to experience the fifth iteration of White Night Melbourne, Australia's most celebrated cultural and creative event.

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.

??????? Spanning the month of March, Big Walk to Golden Mountain is three different events in three distinct locations throughout central Victoria.

Alanta Colley has travelled the world; she's lived in villages, and taught health education to remote communities.

Marking an exciting new development in the creative leadership model for the company, Chamber Made Opera is delighted to announce Tamara Saulwick's appointment to a new role of Artistic Director to work alongside CEO and Creative Director Tim Stitz.

Brian Friel's enduring work of art, Faith Healer, is an extraordinary creation presented in four beautifully sculpted monologues.

Ten-time Grammy® Award Winner Bonnie Raitt, will make her debut performance at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) Concert Hall as part of her Dig In Deep Tour for one-night only on Wednesday 12 April 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.