AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 164

The Secret Noise poetically and playfully explores the threshold of music-making as a public and private exchange - from the sacred forms of ceremonial music and legally extinguished compositions to 'backmasking' (playing an LP backwards to reveal a subliminal, satanic message), private love songs

Melbourne Theatre Company honoured three of its benefactors with MTC Lifetime Patron Awards last night at a special preview event for MTC's 2017 Season.

2016 will likely be remembered for two things: the year Australia held the longest and most inarguably boring election campaign, AND the year Australia discovered Paul Culliver.

From Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling novel and Stephen Spielberg's Oscar-nominated film comes the Australasian premiere of this breathtaking Tony Award winning stage musical at Chapel off Chapel, Thursday 13 October until Sunday 6 November 2016.

The multi-award winning shake & stir theatre co round out their 10th Anniversary main stage season with the return of their award winning Australian play, Tequila Mockingbird.

Due to popular demand, Melbourne Theatre Company announced today the scheduling of two extra performances for its critically acclaimed show Jasper Jones on Saturday 10 September.

A one-man sci-fi cabaret about loss, myth-making and the fatal cage that is the live pop gig.

Giddy up for a genre-bending wild west cabaret under the spectacular Melba Spiegeltent big top, this Melbourne Fringe Festival from 28 September.

QV Melbourne is calling for entries from Melbourne artists to transform one of their laneways into a spectacular work of art.

This September, Melbourne audiences will witness the phenomenal skills and imagination of the circus world's future stars, when the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in collaboration with one of Australia's most lauded playwrights, Stephen Sewell, presents Empty Bodies (rated PG).

MTC joins forces with Sisters Grimm for a world premiere production that will visually defy expectations and transform the Lawler as you've never seen it before when Lilith: The Jungle Girl opens on Saturday 3 September at Southbank Theatre.

After working with a Grammy Award winning producer on her debut album, Modern Times, and two consecutive years of sold out MICF shows, Jude Perl is ready to talk about "selling out".

Danielle Asciak debuts her internationally-acclaimed one-woman cabaret show Everyone Wants a Piece of Malta! in the inaugural 2016 Melbourne Fringe program at the Basement at Hawthorn Arts Centre Tuesday 27 September-Saturday 1 October 8pm and Sunday 2 October 7pm.

This September Melbourne Fringe Festival will play host to RAW Comedy finalist Emily Vascotto with her award winning cabaret Screw Loose.

Lights up on a scattered stage and one lonely girl walking slowly towards centre stage.

Brooklyn-based choreographer and director Faye Driscoll takes audiences on a joyous and intriguingly wild ride in Attendance, the first work from her three-part series Thank You for Coming.

What does it mean to belong in contemporary Australia?

In Red Dress & The Sugar Man, the seedy underworld of Tom Waits' lyrics is transformed into a noir pop-up book.

 In what promises to be the theatrical event of 2017, Arts Centre Melbourne is bringing Matthew Bourne's production of Lord of the Flies to the State Theatre stage from 5 - 9 April.

In Red Dress & The Sugar Man, the seedy underworld of Tom Waits' lyrics is transformed into a noir pop-up book.