AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 237

Hot-on-the-heels of the triumphant re-opening of Hamer Hall is the esteemed auditorium's 30th Birthday, which will be celebrated with a cake cutting and performance by Eddie Perfect and Tripod who will perform a song from their upcoming Arts Centre Melbourne presents show Perfect Tripod: Australian

After a nation-wide search for Australia's best streetdancer, Melburnian Sid Mathur has been selected to join the cast of Blaze the Show for its Melbourne season at Hamer Hall from Wednesday 23 - Sunday 27 January 2013.

In 1962, the original production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum was struggling in its off broadway try out.

Lucy Maunder won hearts all over Australia in 2011 with her portrayal of the iconic Lara in the world premiere season of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.

Geoffrey Rush will lead John Frost's production of Sondheim's A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, which opens in Melbourne Saturday, October 27 at Her Majesty's Theatre and runs for twelve weeks.

Geoffrey Rush will lead John Frost's production of Sondheim's A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, which opens in Melbourne Saturday, October 27 at Her Majesty's Theatre and runs for twelve weeks.

Geoffrey Rush will lead John Frost's production of Sondheim's A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, which opens in Melbourne Saturday, October 27 at Her Majesty's Theatre and runs for twelve weeks.

Chunky Move presents the World Premiere of An Act of Now at the Melbourne Festival this October, the highly anticipated debut work under new Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk.

Publicist Suzie Howie has succombed to cancer at the age of 63 on the eve of the opening of her last show, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Mockingbird Theatre brings to Melbourne audiences the return of the acclaimed Green Room award-winning staging of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Members of The Tectonic Theatre Project.

Horse puppets from Arts Centre Melbourne's upcoming War Horse production and a five-metre long Raptor dinosaur puppet and are among the highlights of the upcoming exhibition War Horse and the Breath of Life celebrating the art of puppetry.

Today Ringo Starr announced that he and his All Starr Band will tour the Pacific Rim this winter with select dates in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

The technical brilliance of Erth's enchanting Dinosaur Petting Zoo™ returns to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), after sell-out performances at this year's Out of the Box Festival, from 8 to 20 January 2013 on the Melbourne Street Green.

Experience the world through the eyes of your newborn child in this dream-like journey created by Polyglot Theatre.

Get your swing shoes on and travel back to the 1940's for Adelaide Festival Centre's big band themed Christmas Proms at Her Majesty's Theatre from 13 - 16 December.

Elaine Paige is set for a month-long concert tour of Australia, beginning in Perth tonight, Oct 20th and ending in Brisbane on Oct 29th.

Check out the latest installment of 'A year inside The Australian Ballet', the ballet's 10-part 50th anniversary web series.

Captivating Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko is taking her highly anticipated new album I Awake on the road with her in a big way in February 2013 when she performs at Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall at 8pm Thursday 14 February as part of a national tour.

Chunky Move presents the World Premiere of An Act of Now at the Melbourne Festival this month, the highly anticipated debut work under new Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk.

Five-time Tony Award® and three-time Academy Award® nominee Angela Lansbury, two-time Tony Award® winner and Academy Award® winner James Earl Jones, and just announced Four-time Tony Award® winner Boyd Gaines are coming together in Brisbane in Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play D

Five-time Tony Award® and three-time Academy Award® nominee Angela Lansbury, two-time Tony Award® winner and Academy Award® winner James Earl Jones, and just announced Four-time Tony Award® winner Boyd Gaines are coming together in Brisbane in Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play D

They are part of the Dream Team - the Australian cast of SOUTH PACIFIC so perfectly composed that their production of Bartlett Sher's Lincoln Center revival brought Oscar Hammerstein's grandson to tears in Sydney, and has since been chosen as the version of the record-breaking stage show to be immor

Chugg Entertainment confirms that legendary composer and performer, Yanni, is set to continue his World Tour throughout into early 2013 with dates in Australia.

And in exciting news, the rock anthem Long Way To The Top has been added to the vaults with the announcement by the federal Arts Minister, Simon Crean, that AC/DC's 1975, "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Want to Rock n Roll)", with its reverberating bagpipe riff, has been selected for inclusion i

The Famous Spiegeltent will once again adorn the Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt from Wednesday 5 February to 21 April 2013, with its signature mix of circus, cabaret, theatre and live music, with additional programs for children, and food and wine events.