AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 189

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.

From June 6 - 7 Christine and Hendrik from Scottish performance company Curious Seed will take children aged eight and above and their families on a chalk-drawing journey asking some BIG questions about identity and the meaning of life.

Last Orders! is a delicious circus degustation featuring the 2015 graduating students from the National Institute of Circus Arts.

Get set for the excited voices of 1600 school children to drift across the River Torrens and the Riverbank Precinct tomorrow when Come Out Children's Festival opens with enthusiasm, song and ceremony.

A true Australian story that grapples with the nature of conception, the science of creation and humanity's drive to leave its own imprint, The Waiting Room by Kylie Trounson celebrates the development of IVF in Melbourne from a uniquely personal perspective.

The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre has announced that two new and final performances of Swan Lake have been added to the Melbourne season.

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.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre returns for a tour of full-length classical performances of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty in 45 cities and towns across New Zealand and Australia from August.

In March, local comedian Michael Shafar (Footy Couch, 3 Little Gigs, Round Squares) put together a comedy bill that went absolutely ballistic, selling out well before the comics took to the stage.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo will march into Melbourne for the first time ever in February 2016 when more than 1200 performers will gather at Etihad Stadium.

Handpicked to star in the Australian production of Jersey Boys by Frankie Valli himself and after three years and over 850 performances, Bobby Fox returns to the stage to share a unique, first hand insight into his experience of working on the musical phenomenon that touched the lives of many adorin

Tim Freedman inhabits the skin of legendary hard-living American recording artist Harry Nilsson in Everybody's Talkin' 'bout me at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Canberra's hottest new hip-hop cabaret artist, MC KREWD is set to explode onto the Melbourne's cabaret stage with her diabolical tragi-comedy Drizzle From The Sizzle.

Vanessa Pigrum has more than 20 years professional experience in producing, directing and managing complex arts projects in festivals, major performing arts organisations and in the local government sector.

Long-time collaborators Susie Dee and Patricia Cornelius present SHIT, a new play about women and girls who defy gender demarcations and transgress the boundaries and restraints of social order and expectation.

From the award-winning British playwright Simon Stephens comes Birdland, a piercing satire about celebrity obsession starring Mark Leonard Winter, Michala Banas and Peta Sergeant.

Inspired equally by Bach, punk rock and ambient electronica, Max Richter's sonic world blends a formal classical training (at the Royal Academy of Music) with modern technology.

MTC's 2015 Education Production, I Call My Brothers by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, begins a two-week regional tour today, taking world-class theatre on the road as part of MTC's Sharing the Light initiative, supported by Crown Resorts Foundation.

Enda Markey will present his acclaimed production of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers at Melbourne's brand new theatre complex - Alex Theatre St Kilda - for a strictly limited three-week season beginning 14 July, following an extended Sydney season early this year, which sold-out at every performance,

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

The splash-hit West End stage production SINGIN' IN THE RAIN will open at Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre in May 2016 starring an all Australian cast including star of stage and screen Adam Garcia.

Following premiere performances in Perth's Fringe World and Brisbane, Bobbie-Jean Henning is bringing Tales of A Time Travelling Songstress to The Butterfly Club.

To commemorate the Anzac Centenary, Arts Centre Melbourne with the Lemnos Gallipoli Project will present Women in War, a contemporary opera about conflict, love and hope.

Some people remember back when a mid-week matinee was a special and affordable treat.

Celebrating one of Australia's most loved groups, Georgy Girl - The Seekers Musical will have its world premiere in Melbourne this December at Her Majesty's Theatre.