AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 218

Submissions are now open to perform in the world's second largest cabaret festival and one of Melbourne's key winter arts events.

Lulu & the Paige-Turners will tour Melbourne next week, performing tonight, October 15th at The Butterfly Club to launch their debut EP 'Bookends & Begin-Agains'.

Before the company relocates to Sydney, The Hayloft Project will update the Elizabethan murder mystery Arden of Faversham in their Melbourne swan song Arden v Arden at Northcote Town Hall from Wednesday 20 November - Sunday 8 December, 2013.

The Production Company's new staging of the Broadway version of The Pirates of Penzance opens in Hamer Hall on October 30 for a season of six performances only.

As he prepares for opening night of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS at Sydney's Theatre Royal, Matt Hetherington took some time out to share a little of his brain on musical theatre - and what it's like to play one of comedy's great roles.

Elphaba is one of the great female roles of modern times, and she requires a powerhouse performer to portray her.

Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini and leading Australian theatre producer John Frost today announced the principal cast for Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic Broadway musical The King and I.

See the rising stars of Australian Musical Theatre this October! 2013 will see, for the first time, Musical Theatre students graduate from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Experience the glitz, glamour and intense competition as Australian and International champions of dancesport kick up their heels at Australia's only International dancesport event, the 68th Australian DanceSport Championship at Hisense Arena on 6, 7 and 8 December, 2013.

After rave reviews, sold out performances and standing ovations in New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, Spiegelworld will bring its all-new show EMPIRE to Canberra, pitching its opulent spiegeltent at Civic Square for a limited season from tonight, October 10 2013.

Lulu & the Paige-Turners will tour Melbourne next week, performing on October 15th at The Butterfly Club to launch their debut EP 'Bookends & Begin-Agains'.

Lulu & the Paige-Turners will tour Melbourne next week, performing on October 15th at The Butterfly Club to launch their debut EP 'Bookends & Begin-Agains'.

Experience the glitz, glamour and intense competition as Australian and International champions of dancesport kick up their heels at Australia's only International dancesport event, the 68th Australian DanceSport Championship at Hisense Arena on 6, 7 and 8 December, 2013.

They said it would never happen: Helen Reddy is back on stage after more than a decade off the road.

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Actor Geoffrey Rush will be signing copies of the catalogue accompanying the exhibition The Extraordinary Shapes of Geoffrey Rush at Arts Centre Melbourne at 2pm, Sunday 20 October.

Arts Centre Melbourne's summer season will be a celebration of fun and adventure with a host of dynamic performances from some of the world's most thrilling artists from December 2013 to February 2014.

Nominations have now opened for the 2013 BroadwayWorld Australia - Melbourne Regional Awards!

Lateral Events and BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) are bringing Neil Oliver, historian, archaeologist and presenter of acclaimed BBC TV series such as Coast, Vikings and A History of Ancient Britain, to the Australian stage for a fascinating live show.

Best known as half of comic duo Los Trios Ringbarkus, Steve Kearney and his famous tap-dancing wife, Miss Lou-Lou, run the Glittery Tapping Wonderland dance school, with three studios across Melbourne.

Twenty three year old violist, Katie Yap, joins 105 of Australia's finest classical musicians under the baton of Zubin Mehta when she performs with the Australian World Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House and Hamer Hall next month.

The National Theatre of China and PlayKing Productions have announced a Melbourne season of their award winning Chinese-Australian production Cho Cho at the Arts Centre Melbourne from tonight, 2-6 October.

Melbourne Theatre Company has announced its NEON Festival of Independent Theatre has been named Best of Australian Arts 2013 in the theatre category awarded by The Monthly - Australia's leading national magazine about politics, society and culture.

'On Broadway' is an experience currently being offered to young performers across Australia.

They said it would never happen: Helen Reddy is back on stage after more than a decade off the road.