AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 188

The 2015 Helpmann Awards nominations will be announced on Monday, 22nd June 2015 at 6 p.

Cirque du Soleil is returning to Australia with Quidam, one of the company's most loved, classic shows.

Multi-Matilda Award Winning actor, composer Dash Kruck is set to take the Melbourne Cabaret Festival by storm with his incredible debut solo cabaret, I Might Take My Shirt Off.

15 Minutes From Anywhere present the premiere of a new Australian dark comedy, Cuckoo written by Jane Miller and directed by Alice Bishop at fortyfivedownstairs from 8 - 26 July 2015.

Disney On Ice presents Dare To Dream comes to Melbourne from 2-6 July, 2015 and will be the ultimate princess experience, taking audiences on a journey to fulfil their dreams.

Melbourne Opera will present a restaging of their highly successful production of The Barber Of Seville, Rossini's hilarious and widely popular opera.

An unfinished novel by 20th century literary giant Dylan Thomas has been adapted for the stage and is coming to Arts Centre Melbourne courtesy of award-winning Welsh theatre company Theatr Iolo from August 5 - 8.

Steven Camden, aka Polarbear - one of the UK's most respected spoken word artists - is heading to Arts Centre Melbourne on 27 -28 June to present his ground-breaking work for children, Mouth Open, Story Jump Out, a show about the craft of storytelling.

The one and only Trevor Ashley brings the Australian Premiere of HEATHERS THE MUSICAL, a darkly, hilarious comedy to Hayes Theatre Co.

This June Melbourne Cabaret Festival will play host to Natasha York's critically acclaimed one woman show 'These Things Take Wine', at the new Alex Theatre Complex this June.

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

The 2015 Helpmann Awards is set to sizzle with the star-studded announcement of this year's ceremony host and performances.

The Butterfly Club are proud to present the final performance of Selina Jenkins' 2015 MICF show as Beau Heartbreaker.

Acclaimed Melbourne theatre performer Evelyn Krape will celebrate women of all ages in her new one-woman show More Female Parts at Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio from 30 June - 4 July.

Following an extensive national and international search, Melanie Smith, most recently the Deputy Director and Head of Programming at Auckland Live (formerly The Edge), has been appointed this week as Arts Centre Melbourne's new Executive, Performing Arts.

With the audience abuzz before even entering the theatre, this ship was set to sail - full steam ahead for the opening night of the new Australian production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes!

ARENAarts is paying tribute to the late Terry Pratchett by staging an adaptation of Maskerade, one of his popular Discworld novels.

After winning the Sydney Cabaret Convention, being named as ABC's Best Newcomer and Canberra Times' Artist Of The Year, Peter J Casey is descending upon Melbourne this June.

Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini AM and leading Australian theatre producer John Frost AM announced that actor, comedian and impressionist Gerry Connolly joins the cast of Anything Goes to play the Captain of the S.

After winning 'Best Independent Show' at MICF, Ghost Machine, Laura Davis is returning with a 6 night season of the critically acclaimed production.

The Australian Premiere of James Kirkwood's hilarious and touching comedy Legends! is set for tonight 28th May.

The world's most successful dance show explodes onto the Australian stage this September with a spectacular new staging of Michael Flatley's masterpiece - Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games.

Impro Melbourne welcomes the comedic chemistry of some of improvisation's finest talent to the grand stage of St Kilda's National Theatre for the 27th annual Celebrity Theatresports on July 25th.

Melbourne Theatre Company is saddened to announce that much loved and respected actor Bob Horneryhas passed away.

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