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Chapel Off Chapel Presents MAMA ALTO'S BLUES IN THE NIGHT
by Ashlee Latimer - October 12, 2016
Step back in time to a decadent Jazz Age blues club. Cabaret diva Mama Alto invites you to a unique and fleeting world: step into a smoky and mysterious 1930s blues club. Welcome to the Jazz Age, doll. The darling of the demimonde is here to sing her heart out for you, despite uncertain winds of change howling just outside. Velvet and smoke, debauchery and treachery, crystal chandeliers and bootleg moonshine, scandal and danger, flappers and politicians, clashing ideologies and syncopated melodies… A world verging on turmoil. Is it so different from our own?
The Butterfly Club Presents THE BACHELA-LA-LA
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2016
Looking for a good time? Looking for love? Either way, Impromptunes has got you covered! Returning from sold out shows in their Edinburgh Fringe debut at Underbelly, Impromptunes are back home in Melbourne with a brand new show that aims its improv comedy straight for the heart. 
The Butterly Club Presents WHERE'S MY PONY
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2016
These are scary times. Donald Trump might actually become president, nobody under 30 can afford a house and if you don't have a booty like Nicki Minaj you're actually going to have to work instead of twerk. If "the age of entitlement" is indeed over, then Carla Conlin is ready to throw it a cabaret-style farewell party to end all parties.
MOTOR-MOUTH LOVE SUCK-FACE Set To Make Melbourne Debut
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2016
Presented by Anthony Crowley, Motor-mouth Loves Suck-Face is an apocalyptic musical comedy about a planet on the edge, complete with a pop-rock score ('Suck My Armageddon', ' I Want to Taste Your Fish Paste') and a thumping Bollywood diversion because, well, how else do you distract a mob of brain dead zombies?
Applications Open for MTC's Women in Theatre Program
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2016
Melbourne Theatre Company is pleased to announce that applications are now open for its 2017 Women in Theatre Program.
Internationally Acclaimed Australian Pianist Sarah Grunstein to Perform J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2016
Praised by the New York Times for her "penetrating musical intelligence", her performance "tempestuous" and "imbued with a luminous calm', internationally acclaimed Australian pianist Sarah Grunstein has performed in the United States, Austria, Hungary, Italy, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and her homeland.  Sarah Grunstein, who is gaining international acclaim for her performances of Bach will tour Australia in 2016, performing J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations at the Melbourne Recital Center on Thursday 20 October and the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 25 October.
The Butterfly Club Presents LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2016
Are you wracked by indecision about whether to go out to see comedy, folk music or romantic pop? Do you want to hear songs about corporate bullshit, Bunnings, friendship, first dates, falling in love, family life, lost love, car accessories, Dad jokes, Ikea and farting? Are you sick of all these questions?
THE BODYGUARD Producers Announce Australian Tour
by BWW News Desk - October 09, 2016
Producers Michael Harrison, David Ian and John Frost today announced that the international award-winning hit musical THE BODYGUARD will reach Australian theatres in 2017. The Australian tour will commence in Sydney in April next year.
World First Research Reveals Alarming Research on Mental Health of Australian Entertainment Industry Employees
by BWW News Desk - October 09, 2016
Entertainment Assist and Victoria University have today released a report uncovering serious health and wellbeing concerns for those who work in the Australian entertainment industry.
QV Melbourne Announces Winner for ARTEMIS LANE
by BWW News Desk - October 09, 2016
After a public call out, Melbourne has voted on four finalist artworks for QV Melbourne's Artemis Lane, choosing Merda's 'MELBOURNE' design as the stand out winner.
Western Edge Youth Arts Presents CALIBAN, 24-26 November 2016
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
Global climate politics - where do the spirits go when the water rises? Western Edge Youth Arts presents the premiere of CALIBAN, a play developed and created by the Edge Ensemble. CALIBAN plays  at the Coopers Malthouse from 24 - 26 November 2016.
THE CARNIVAL OF LOST SOULS Makes its World Debut in Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
Nestled somewhere between the madness of a Tim Burton psychosis and the darkness of a David Lynch nightmare, The Carnival of Lost Souls tells the tragic tale of unrequited love and loss, set amongst the mayhem and splendour of a 19th Century Circus.
MOTOR-MOUTH LOVE SUCK-FACE Set To Make Melbourne Debut
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
Presented by Anthony Crowley, Motor-mouth Loves Suck-Face is an apocalyptic musical comedy about a planet on the edge, complete with a pop-rock score ('Suck My Armageddon', ' I Want to Taste Your Fish Paste') and a thumping Bollywood diversion because, well, how else do you distract a mob of brain dead zombies?
World Famous ACROBUFFOS Set to Take Audience on a High Flying Comic Adventure
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016
World-famous clowning duo the Acrobuffos are heading to Melbourne this summer to take audiences on an epic comic adventure filled with breathtaking air sculptures and laugh-out-loud physical comedy. In an Australian premiere exclusive to Melbourne, Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone will perform Air Play from 18 - 22 January at Arts Centre Melbourne's State Theatre.
EMPTYING THE BUCKET wins Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Dance
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016
Melbourne Fringe Festival on Saturday night announced the winning artists for the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Awards. Emptying The Bucket by Melbourne/Berlin based choreographer Nebahat Eroplat won the Best Dance Award for the new and thought-provoking dance piece that premiered at the Meat Market last week.
Paul Capsis to Star in New Australian Production of CABARET
by BWW News Desk - October 04, 2016
Winner of 12 Tony Awards, 8 Academy Awards and 7 BAFTA Awards, CABARET wows audiences and critics alike time and time again sky-rocketing the careers its starts.  Fifty years ago in 1966 the original Broadway production made a household name of Joel Grey who shook audiences as The Emcee.  Two years later an unassuming Judi Dench stole the show as Sally Bowles on London's West End.  Arguably the most iconic movie musical of all time made a star of Liza Minnelli when she brought Sally Bowles to the silver screen directed by Bob Fosse.
Paul Capsis to Star as 'The Emcee' in All-New Australian Production of CABARET
by BWW News Desk - October 04, 2016
The Kit Kat Club is returning to Sydney in all its decadence for a new Australian revival of CABARET at Hayes Theatre Co. from 9 January 2017 starring Paul Capsis as The Emcee.  CABARET will then play the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne from 27 April 2017.
Charles Edwards
by Tim Carney - October 04, 2016
BWWs Tim Carney sat Down with Charles Edwards taking over the role of Henry Higgins in Brisbane and Melbourne in 2017
Anna O'Byrne
by Tim Carney - October 04, 2016
Broadway World's Tim Carney sat down with Anna O'Byrne currently playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Sydney Opera House.
Melbourne Opera Presents ANNA BOLENA
by BWW News Desk - October 02, 2016
Following the sold out triumph of Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) last year, Melbourne Opera continues the great Donizetti trilogy bringing the Bel Canto masterpiece Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn) to The Athenaeum for the first time this November. This production is the second exploration of Donizetti's Tudor operas with Melbourne Opera staging a third Australian premiere when it presents Roberto Devereux in 2017.
Australian Ballet Company to Kick Off Facebook LIVE's Longest Broadcast for WORLD BALLET DAY 10/4
by BWW News Desk - October 02, 2016
Australian online audiences will have access to watch exclusive behind the scenes rehearsals and interviews when World Ballet Day LIVE takes place on Tuesday 4 October. For the first time in 2016 World Ballet Day LIVE will be streamed on Facebook LIVE - the longest broadcast ever to be shown on the platform. 
Australian Tap Dance Festival Arrives in Melbourne This September
by BWW News Desk - October 01, 2016
The 5th Annual Australian Tap Dance Festival stomps into town these September school holidays as a cavalcade of world class dancers arrive in Melbourne from across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the U.S.A. With an action-packed week of tap and choreography master classes, jam sessions, dance-offs and special events, the ATDF offers something fun for all ages and levels and is the only festival of its kind in Australasia.
BRIEFS Returns and HOT BROWN HONEY Makes its Arts Centre Melbourne Premiere
by BWW News Desk - September 30, 2016
Following a recent five-star season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the sold-out festival sensation Hot Brown Honey makes its Arts Centre Melbourne premiere from 6 to 13 December 2016 in a season of fiery, stereotype-smashing political cabaret. After dazzling sell-out runs in Berlin, London, Paris and Glastonbury, Briefs returns to glitter bomb with a splash of Christmas cheer at Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio from 13 to 18 December 2016.
Suzi Quatro Leather Forever Encore Tour to Launch February 2017
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2016
With a career now spanning over 50 years of performing, it's "one more time for Suzi" as she returns in February 2017 for a national tour starting on the Gold Coast on February 3 and finishing in Darwin on March 4. Tickets go on sale early October.
Darebin Arts Brings Circus Oz TWENTYSIXTEEN to Preston in September
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2016
Darebin Arts is bringing the circus to town this September as it presents Circus Oz's latest absurd and pants-wetting show, TWENTYSIXTEEN, at the Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre in Preston. Circus Oz is fresh from touring the show internationally, thrilling circus lovers with its Australian larrikin humour: think boisterous flying human cockatoos! 

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