AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 183

Sydney Theatre Company's (STC) Artistic Director, Andrew Upton, has announced the 2016 season, the last of which he will program before the position is handed over to Jonathan Church at the end of 2015.

The inaugural 2015 St Albans Writers' Festival, the newest writers' festival in Australia focusing on Australian authors and writing, will take place from Friday 18 September to Sunday 20 September in the rural setting of historic St Albans Village, located in the beautiful Hawkesbury River area les

They're back! Andy and Terry's world-famous ever- expanding treehouse has 13 new storeys and is filled with more fantastic inventions than ever: a watermelon smashing room, a chainsaw-juggling level, a rocket powered carrot launcher, and even a Ninja Snail Training Academy!

Melbourne Theatre Company will honour five of its benefactors with MTC Lifetime Patron Awards tonight at a special preview event for MTC's 2016 Season.

Melbourne's premier improv troupe return to the Fringe with the spookiest, entertainiest show of your life.

Legendary children's entertainer Peter Combe, an inter-galactic adventure with Polyglot Theatre and a chance to help create a totally random musical are among the highlights of Darebin Arts' September School Holiday program held across Northcote Town Hall and Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre (D

Greets! Why not accompany Lee Naimo into what is definitely a comedy show and not an intricate ploy to get your money/time/soul as he presents an hour of solo sketch, characters and magnificence!

'It's a season that will ignite heated debate about sex, death and revolution, and bring a wide range of communities together through new works created by independent and international artists,' said Lutton.

Producers Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian, John Frost and the Really Useful Group today announced the dates and venue for the Melbourne season of their 2015-16 Australian tour of the world's favourite musical, The Sound of Music.

This just in! Anticipation is at an all-time high with tickets for Hugh Jackman's BROADWAY TO OZ national arena tour going on sale today.

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

Cougar Morrison is one of the freshest faces in Australian cabaret.

With not a tutu or tiara in sight, the best dance of the 20th century and the freshest of the 21st combine in The Australian Ballet's 20:21, emerging in Melbourne next month.

Blending physics lecture, pop culture and personal revelation, YOUARENOWHERE exposes cracks and anomalies in the cosmos, dissecting subjects from quantum mechanics and parallel universes to missed connections and AA recovery steps.

Melbourne Theatre Company takes audiences young and old on an extraordinary journey of imagination and friendship with The Boy at the Edge of Everything.

With two-time Green Room Award nominee Nick Simpson-Deeks as Robert and Sally Bourne as Joanne.

Santa's Magical Kingdom, in collaboration with Santa Claus's North Pole Corporation, has signed an exclusive deal to once again bring all the magic of Christmas to Melbourne from 21 November and for the first time to Sydney from 12 December

Award-winning US comedians and real-life married couple NICK OFFERMAN and MEGAN MULLALLY will tour Australia for the first time when they bring their Summer of 69: No Apostrophe comedy stage tour in early 2016.

Melbourne's best comedic minds join forces to present True Fiction - Australia's first live documentary show.

The Australian cast of the brand new production, Georgy Girl - the Seekers Musical, has been announced today with members of The Seekers in attendance.

 This is What's Happening is about what is happening now.

As the Melba Spiegeltent settles into her permanent location at the Circus Oz headquarters in Collingwood, Circus Oz will present day time performances of Curiosity by Dislocate from 17 - 24 October 2015.

In March and May, local comedian Michael Shafar (Footy Couch, 3 Little Gigs, 3 Course Comedy, Round Squares) put together two comedy bills that went absolutely ballistic, selling out both shows well before the comics took to the stage.

A solo creation at the intersection of theatre, dance and visual art installation, Bronx Gothic gives palpable force to the charged relationship between two girls on the verge of adolescence in 1980s outer-borough New York City - where Newport cigarettes are bought in singles at the corner bodega

A stunning combination of art and music inspired by the revolutionary Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, CANZONE - Music as Storytelling is a visual and musical dream presented by fortyfivedownstairs as part of the Melbourne Festival from 29 September to 24 October 2015.