AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 193

The first of the four key components of MTC's Sharing the Light initiative, supported by Crown Resorts Foundation, has begun rolling out with $5 tickets to all MTC mainstage and education productions now available to eligible schools.

Due to overwhelming demand, new dates and shows have been added to the world premiere of OCTONAUTS LIVE! OPERATION REEF SHIELD, touring Australia from 21 February 2015.

Tickets go on sale on tomorrow (Mon 16th Feb) for the Australian Premiere of James Kirkwood's hilarious and touching comedy Legends! The national tour of this hilarious production stars screen and stage royalty, Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills.

Tickets go on sale on Monday for the Australian Premiere of James Kirkwood's hilarious and touching comedy Legends! The national tour of this hilarious production stars screen and stage royalty, Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills.

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the most successful movie musical of all time, The Sound of Music and we plan to celebrate with Frauleins and Friedrichs, Louisas and Liesels, Baronesses and Brigittas.

Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen are two of Australia's leading operatic performers, and between them have won a slew of awards for their stunning portrayals of Opera's finest characters.

Producers Howard Panter and John Frost today announced the full cast for the 2015 season of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, which will play at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from 11 April and the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne from 12 June.

Impro Melbourne kicks off our celebratory year of improvisation in Melbourne with an exciting double bill of improvised story and song!

Glen Street Theatre will present Everybody Loves Lucy, the critically acclaimed musical portrait of the queen of comedy performed and co-written by musical theatre star, Elise McCann.

e-baby, a powerful new play focusing on one of today's most topical and emotive issues, surrogacy, will open at Chapel Off Chapel from 4-15 March.

Melbourne audiences will be one of the first to witness the stage adaptation of THE 26-STOREY TREEHOUSE, Andy Griffiths' and Terry Denton's best-selling book, as part of an extensive national tour from 8 - 19 April at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse.

Two double act veterans, Colin Lane (Lano from Lano and Woodley) and David Collins (the hairy one from The Umbilical Brothers), have teamed up to take on a comedy duo from a whole other era - Gilbert and Sullivan.

Cirque du Soleil, which is currently presenting its awe-inspiring production TOTEM under the Big Top at Flemington Racecourse, will be establishing a pop-up box office at Federation Square from February 6 to 18, 2015, open every day from 11am to 6pm except Monday 9 and 16 February.

The stars of The Chaser make their Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut with In Conversation With Lionel Corn, an unsparing send-up of every earnest celebrity Q&A event you've ever had to sit through.

Chair of Melbourne Theatre Company Terry Moran AC today announced four new members to join the MTC board - Tony Burgess, Patricia Faulkner AO, Jane Hansen and Janette Kendall.

Arts Centre Melbourne and Wander Productions present Once Were Leaders, 13 - 14 March at the ANZ Pavilion, Arts Centre Melbourne.

For a limited time, Melbourne residents have the opportunity to get up-close to a selection of the stunning costumes from TOTEM, the awe-inspiring Cirque du Soleil production now playing under the Big Top at Flemington Racecourse.

The Fabulous Singlettes are a playful, post-modern musical trio celebrating some of the greatest hits of the 60s and 70s.

Anna Bamford, TV Week Logie nominee and star of Channel Ten's hit series Wonderland, will be joining Marshall Napier and Ben O'Toole in the cast of Freak Winds at the Old Fitz Theatre in March.

Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini AM and leading Australian theatre producer John Frost AM today announced the final lead cast member and the ensemble cast for their new production of Cole Porter's smash-hit musical comedy Anything Goes, which will tour Australia this year.

The unique film subgenre that shot Lena Dunham (HBO's Girls) to fame is the genus of new Australian indie feature, Pretty Good Friends, screening at Melbourne's Testing Grounds this Friday 6 February.

Disney's THE LION KING will roar into Melbourne's Regent Theatre with preview performances of the award-winning Broadway musical beginning 13th February, 2015.

For the first time in Melbourne, Aleksander Vass & Malcolm C.

Australian comedy icon Jane Turner and rising star Brenna Harding play mother and daughter in Jumpy, the West End hit by April De Angelis about frazzled hopes and parental anxiety.

Chunky Move and Malthouse Theatre present 'Depth of Field,' a new work by Chunky Move, running Friday 6 March - Saturday 14 March at the The Coopers Malthouse Forecourt.