AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 170

David Hare's contemporary classic Skylight returns to Melbourne Theatre Company's stage 20 years after its Australian premiere.

Lyric Opera of Melbourne presents Il Signor Bruschino; a contemporary take on a beloved Rossini classic

Following multiple 5-star show reviews and sell-out shows at Melbourne, Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals in 2015, this year's season set to be their biggest yet.

This June, Edward Albee's classic play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? returns, as ferocious and relevant as ever, to woo a new generation of Melbourne theatre-lovers.

If only life were a dance musical.

Open letter: CAST Artistic Directors fear for our cultural vibrancy in the face of funding announcements

?Acclaimed children's author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler's tale of The Snail and the Whale is coming to Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse stage from 29 June - 10 July.

International circus performance troupe from the UK Riddles In The Dark host their new show in Melbourne Magick & Alchemy a mysterious performance and celebration of life, a place to discover hidden truths and share secrets.

*PHOTOS & VIDEO* The Principal Cast of the 60th Anniversary Production of MY FAIR LADY was announced in Sydney.

?Sex Ed.

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Announced for Sydney - Video and Photos

Desperately trying to keep it together? So is Jenny Wynter in VIKING MAMA! Release the mother warrior within from Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th June at Melbourne Cabaret Festival.

After a smash-hit season at the Butterfly Club, Louisa Fitzhardinge brings her acclaimed solo comedy cabaret to the Melbourne Cabaret Festival.

Girls dressed as boys, using techniques for picking up women to pick up men, all while wearing pink beehives ­ Got it? If not, perhaps you'd better consult Melbourne's hottest cabaret trio The Desperettes for their Butterfly Club season of A LADY'S GUIDE TO THE ART OF BEING A WINGMAN.

?Shadowland, the ground-breaking new performance by internationally acclaimed dance troupe Pilobolus, is best described as part shadow act, part dance, part circus and part concert.

Ben Elton (Writer and Director) has delivered a new incarnation of WE WILL ROCK YOU for Australian audiences to multiple standing ovations.

International circus performance troupe from the UK Riddles In The Dark host their new show in Melbourne Magick & Alchemy a mysterious performance and celebration of life, a place to discover hidden truths and share secrets.

Murderous plants.

This June, Melbourne audiences will experience the phenomenal skills and imagination of Australia's next generation of circus stars when the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) presents Things NOT of this EARTH, an exuberant production of elite-level circus.

RAW Comedy Finalist and TV writer John Dore is mounting Revolving Dore for a strictly  limited five night run at The Butterfly Club.

?The new Australian production of the worldwide smash hit musical WE WILL ROCK YOU will explode onto the stage at the Sydney Lyric Theatre tomorrow night, Today 5 May at 8pm, officially commencing its new national tour.

International singing and touring powerhouse Celtic Thunder will be taking Australia by storm this May as they head Down Under to perform an all encompassing national tour.

Starring Brent Hill and Esther Hannaford, the Melbourne season of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS will be staged at the Comedy Theatre from tonight May 4 for a strictly limited season.

?The new Australian production of the worldwide smash hit musical WE WILL ROCK YOU will explode onto the stage at the Sydney Lyric Theatre tomorrow night, Thursday 5 May at 8pm, officially commencing its new national tour.

Equal parts historical and hysterical, all heaving harmonies and tipsy candour, explore the history of gin through story and song.