AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 175

?The Sydney season of the world's favourite musical, The Sound of Music, is in its final weeks at the Capitol Theatre and must end on February 28.

Prepare to get Kinky! Tickets for the Australian season of feel-good, multi award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS go on sale tomorrow, Thursday 18 February 2016.

Following the recent announcement that FOLLIES IN CONCERT will be performed for three performances only in May, exclusive to Melbourne and starring David Hobson (Buddy), Lisa McCune (Sally) and Nancye Hayes (Hattie), further casting for this all-star theatrical event has been announced today.

Cirque du Soleil is delighted to announce the return of its trademark blue-and-yellow big top to Australia with an all-new production, KOOZA.

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.

? Australian music greats Colleen Hewett, Athol Guy and Mitchell Butel are among the entertainment icons joining Arts Centre Melbourne's 2016 Morning Melodies program.

In 2016, Malthouse Theatre continues to support Australia's most inventive independent theatre-makers with important initiatives such as the Female Director in Residence program.

A NAUGHTY musical romp through the ABCs of life - described as "Sesame Street for adults" - is the latest offering from Dark Psychic Productions.

Producers of the new Australian production of the worldwide smash hit musical WE WILL ROCK YOU, John Frost, Queen Theatrical Productions, Phil McIntyre Entertainment and Tribeca Theatrical Productions, today announced their exciting cast.

Audiences will be delighted by the absurd comedy and touching humanity of Couch Potato, wit incorporated's first show for 2016.

The award winning hit show from the 2015 Adelaide Fringe Festival returns in the Spiegeltent: Garden Of Unearthly Delights, from 12 February 2016 for a strictly limited season.

Welcome to Fab Friday at the Butterfly Club, your guaranteed salve for the soul.

The Tony, Olivier, and Grammy award-winning musical has broken the house record at Melbourne's Princess Theatre for the highest selling on sale period of any production in the theatre's 159-year history.

In the fall of 1939, at 9 years old, Eleanor and her family left New York on the SS Hamburg bound for Germany.

Singer/songwriter/comedian Jude Perl has finally succumbed to the natural progression of the music industry, and has sold her music, her brand and her ability to make decisions to SugarHope Records - the company responsible for Sugar-Oh's.

Stephen Schwartz (Music and Lyrics) and John-Michael Tebelak's (Book) popular 70's Rock Opera is refreshed and revived in 2015 with GODSPELL REIMAGINED.

?The warm-hearted judge of My Kitchen Rules takes audiences on a journey through the gourmet specialties of regional France from an on-stage kitchen where there are no rules.

People judge each other every day, whether it's on the street, on TV, or on the internet, no one asks for it or wants it.

Melbourne Theatre Company, in partnership with the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, is offering two $15,000 scholarships to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from Victoria.

The time has come for MATILDA THE MUSICAL to move south and share the joy and magic with Melbourne.

With some spectacular visual effects and thrilling performances, Ghost the musical opened at the Regent Theatre last night in front of an appreciative audience.

Melbourne Theatre Company today announced the eleven theatre professionals selected for its 2016 Women in Theatre Program.

Today the Producers of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, together the Australian Defence Force, announced that The Combined Military Bands of the Australian Defence Force, The Pipes and Drums of the Australian Defence Force and Australia's Federation Guard will all participate in the Tattoo when

The wait is over.