AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 178

Silver Raven Festival, a new boutique Americana tinged festival, today announces its lineup including the acclaimed songwriter behind Rolling Stone's #7 album of 2015 Jason Isbell (USA), the female Johnny Cash reincarnate Eilen Jewell (USA) and debauched guitar maelstrom of Endless Boogie (USA).

Kitten N' Lou are.

Fresh from their hit ABC TV show, Sammy J and Randy have borrowed three million dollars and opened a theme park.

The London Palladium production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Frost, David Ian and The Really Useful Group, has come to delight Australia, starting in Sydney.

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir and soloist Emma Birdsall combine to create beautiful music that spans the centuries as they celebrate the Christmas Season with NOËL! NOËL!

Following an extensive national and international recruitment process, Circus Oz is delighted to announce the appointment of their new Artistic Director, Rob Tannion.

A decidedly un-Disney cabaret, Meow Meow's Little Mermaid is a sexy spectacle that questions the conventions of what constitutes a 'happy ending'.

White Night Melbourne, Australia's only all night celebration of culture and creativity and a genuine urban adventure returns for the fourth year for one night only on Saturday 20th February 2016 from 7pm to 7am, featuring local, national and international artists and works.

Hugh Jackman is currently polishing his dancing shoes for an all-new stage show BROADWAY TO OZ, touring throughout his native Australia.

GHOST THE MUSICAL brings the hit 1990 romantic movie that made pottery sexy to Australian stages and BWW Sydney Gets A Glimpse Of the rehearsals

The supernatural power of love will take Australia by storm when the Broadway and West End hit GHOST THE MUSICAL, adapted from the Academy Award-winning film, premieres in Australia in Adelaide on 8 January 2016 before touring nationally.

Australia's largest independent theatre company the Australian Shakespeare Company (ASC) is thrilled to announce the hilarious hit production Shakespeare's Best Bits.

Blue Saint Productions are thrilled to announce a highly desired Melbourne premiere season of VIOLET to be presented at Chapel off Chapel from March 3-20, 2016.

Following the overwhelming success of its 2015 season, the Alliance Française French Film Festival will return to Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas Adelaide from 31 March 2016, with an exceptional array of contemporary French cinema.

Melbourne Theatre Company presents a free public talk with Olivier Award-winning writer Simon Stephens today 9 December at Southbank Theatre.

?A favourite of Glen Street Theatre, Catherine Alcorn is back as Bette Midler for two hilarious shows only in a Christmas special version of her critically acclaimed show THE DIVINE MISS BETTE.

For the final Supper Club of 2015, Arts House will host a virtual forum - COP OUT - with an eclectic and esteemed group of scientists, artists, academics and activists to discuss how art can impact climate change.

If laughter is indeed the best medicine, The Good Doctor is the cure-all pill.

Elton John and his band are set to return to Australia from 5 December as part of his international All The Hits Tour.

Conchillia are gearing up to end their busy year with a Jungle Celebration to launch their new pulsing single 'Hunter or a Gatherer' at Jive tonight, 4th December 2016.

Melbourne Theatre Company announced today that its Associate Director Leticia Caceres will leave the Company at the conclusion of her contract in December, in order to pursue freelance opportunities both in Australia and internationally.

?Today the Producers of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS announced the news that DELTA GOODREM will play the role of Grizabella in the Brisbane season of the acclaimed West End revival production of CATS commencing on Friday 29 January at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC.

Following a national search, Melbourne Theatre Company is delighted to announce that Guy Simon has been cast in the title role of its much-anticipated stage adaptation of Jasper Jones.

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.

Melbourne audiences can now start the New Year in song and shimmering style, with the announcement that single tickets for MTC's glamorous new musical Ladies in Black go on sale today.