AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 217

The Production Company rounded off its 2013 season last night with Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance.

It was announced today by Lateral Events that British particle physicist Professor Brian Cox would return to tour Australia in October 2014 in a stage presentation titled Brian Cox - Making Sense of the Cosmos.

Screen icon Isabella Rossellini is coming to Australia to perform her new, playful and wonderfully odd stage show Green Porno, a one-woman comedy about mating in the natural world.

Riverside Big Notes presents Italian Jazz Lounge With Paul Grabowsky and Virna Sanzone Riverside Theatres Sunday 17 November 3.

Windmill Theatre today released its season for 2014 which includes three major works as part of the Adelaide Festival.

Melbourne Theatre Company today announced its Chairman, Derek Young AM, will retire from the Board after nineteen years of outstanding service to the Company.

After wowing New York audiences with this enchanting family tale about facing your fears and finding happiness, director Neil Armfield's acclaimed production of The Book of Everything is staged in Melbourne for the first time.

Due to popular demand and wide-spread critical acclaim, producer George Youakim from James Anthony Productions today announced that the season of the devilishly cheeky, fun-filled Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has been extended to December 8 at Sydney's Theatre Royal.

Chunky Move is thrilled to present the world premiere of AORTA, a new work by award winning choreographer and dancer, Stephanie Lake.

This is your brain on Greased Lightning! BWW catches up with the kids from Rydell High in a special edition of This Is Your Brain On Musical Theatre.

Featuring some of Australia's biggest names in live entertainment and musical theatre, the Rob Guest Endowment Gala Concert, presented by ANZ Private is at the Sydney Lyric Theatre for one night only on Monday 25 November.

Adelaide Festival Centre cements its position as one of the nation's leading cultural precincts as it unveils its 2014 program.

Associate Artistic Director Sam Strong opens MTC's 2014 mainstage season with Noel Coward's delightful comedy of manners, Private Lives.

He's garnered standing ovations and unanimous rave reviews all around the country, and now the irrepressible Trevor Ashley is returning to Melbourne to channel the one and only Dame Shirley Bassey in Diamonds are for Trevor, a spectacular, over-the-top concert extravaganza at Arts Centre Melbourne's

An additional group of dynamic performers were announced today for the LIGHT THE NIGHT 2013 fundraising concert.

Blackwood Players Inc will be performing Morland Cary's classic melodrama 'Love Rides The Rails' or 'Will The Mail Train Run Tonight?' at the Blackwood Memorial Hall.

Opera's great arias are set to be reimagined through sublime puppetry in Aria! by renowned theatre and puppetry company Black Hole Theatre.

Following their hugely successful US tour, Celtic Thunder will return to Australian shores in May 2014 for an extensive 21 date national tour, visiting both capital city and regional markets across Australia, some of which they'll be visiting for the first time.

For four shows only, The Listies (formerly known as The List Operators for Kids) bring their unique brand of kidult entertainment (for kids and their adults) to Melbourne Festival.

Stage Masters presents the Melbourne premiere of Disney's hugely popular CAMP ROCK: The Musical this October.

Madeleine Peyroux will play Elisabeth Murdoch Hall at 7.

Katia and Marielle Labeque are sibling pianists renowned for their ­ensemble of synchronicity and energy.

Art isn't just for grown ups.

Impro Melbourne unleash the dead with this festival of nightmarish live performances.

For four shows only, The Listies (formerly known as The List Operators for Kids) bring their unique brand of kidult entertainment (for kids and their adults) to Melbourne Festival.