AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 222

From blooming flowers to creeping insects, Mother Nature's four seasons are brought to life on stage by award-winning Dance Company Momix's new production Botanica.

Following sell-out shows in their 2013 Theatresports season, Impro Melbourne presents the return of the cult international show, Gorilla Theatre!

The Clotilde Rullaud Quartet will play in the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon on Friday, 6 September at 7.

As Australian Dance Theatre's Melbourne season of Proximity approaches, leading performer Kimball Wong has receiced theAustralian Dance Award for Most Oustanding Performance by a Male Dancer.

Phillip Adams BalletLab presents a special fundraising event on Sunday 11 August at Yering Station Winery, Yarra Valley, to launch the first vision of new work, Kingdom.

In the Green Room Award-winning production Private Dances audiences will encounter live dance performances in intimate and unique one-on-one settings.

'Here Comes The Night' will provide a rare opportunity for the many fans of Van Morrison's music to enjoy the magic of his remarkable body of work as performed by the exceptional talents of Joe Camilleri, Vince Jones and Vika Bull at the Palais Theatre on Friday November 29.

Theatre producer John Frost and Universal Music have announced that they will be releasing a cast album of GREASE featuring the new Australian cast.

Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke has announced the winners of the inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards at an event in Sydney tonight.

Arts Centre Melbourne will be snowed under with a flurry of family-friendly entertainment this Winter.

Esther Hannaford, who plays Ann Darrow in Australia's musical spectacular KING KONG, performed one of the original songs from the show on Australian TV on Monday.

Join Theo and his companions on a lion-hearted adventure into a whimsical, unknown world.

Based on the tragic tale of Giacomo Puccini's operatic masterpiece Madame Butterfly, Cho Cho is a bilingual drama set in Shanghai about the heroine's life that combines music and theatre as well as poetry and puppetry.

The 13th Annual Helpmann Awards ceremony will feature some of Australia's most talented and celebrated performers.

Potts Point will be the home for music theatre and cabaret in Sydney when Independent Music Theatre (IMT) take over the stage of the Reginald Murphy Hall currently known as the Darlinghurst Theatre, when Darlinghurst Theatre Company move to their new home in East Sydney, The Eternity Playhouse.

Almost 400,000 people have attended concerts at Arts Centre Melbourne's new Hamer Hall since it re-opened last July 26, roundly cementing its reputation as the 'people's concert hall'.

The relationship between man and horse has been an area of interest for playwrights and authors alike for centuries.

The 39 Steps is a fast-paced, side-splitting comedy featuring over a hundred characters played by four actors.

Singin' In The Rain will open on August 21 in the State Theatre.

Two of Australia's rising stars of musical theatre transport you to a world of glamour, wit and elegance when Sheridan Morley's timeless musical Noel and Gertie plays the Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre from today, 23 to 27 July for seven performances.

More than 5100 ticketbuyers enjoyed Melbourne Theatre Company's inaugural NEON: Festival of Independent Theatre which showcased five independent theatre companies in The Lawler at Southbank Theatre across 52 performances, with hundreds more engaging with NEON EXTRA free events.

Finucane & Smith has announced that Glory Box Paradise - in its full unexpurgated wildness - will headline this year at the Buenos Aires International Theatre Festival becoming the first ever Australian work to be presented in Latin America's most prestigious theatre festival, Festival Internacional

Now in its sensational sixth year, The Gangsters' Ball is on its way back to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this September!

At the beginning of this performance, Finucane, the sinewy master of these ceremonies, quips that three elements are required for art and its audience - passion, liquor and unrealistic expectation.