AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 239

Live Performance Australia™ (LPA) announced today that Liza McLean will be the Executive Producer of the Helpmann Awards® in 2013.

Spreading the beach party a little further this time, Chugg Entertainment has confirmed that Buffett will be returning to Australia for two very special solo-acoustic shows with Mac McAnally next month in Brisbane and Melbourne.

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

Palais Theatre presents ReAction Theatre's production of At the Water's Edge, a collection of short plays by local and international award-winning playwrights, celebrating life by the water.

The new production BARASSI THE STAGE SHOW aims to marry two of Melbourne's great loves - theatre and sport.

French-Vietnamese choreographer, Ea Sola, brings Drought and Rain (re-creation 2011) to Arts Centre Melbourne tonight, 20 - Saturday 22 September.

In her first tour of Australia in over 12 years the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in association with David M.

BARASSI is the story of iconic Australian footballer, coach, motivator and father of modern football, Ron Barassi depicted in an epic fashion, from child to elder statesman.

Following the success of two stellar productions in season 2012 The Producers and Chess, The Production Company's final production for 2012 is the award-winning Broadway musical Promises, Promises.

Paul Dyer fulfills a dream this September when he brings Monteverdi's dramatic masterpiece L'Orfeo to life.

From Feld Entertainment, the producers of Disney On Ice, Disney Live! Mickey's Rockin' Road Show 'will whisk you and your whole family on a talent search adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns and exciting encounters along the way.

There is a rare kind of production where each element is so in synch, so finely tuned that this particular production eclipses other casts, other interpretations, and goes on to be considered a defining moment in the history of that show, and indeed of musical theatre itself.

5Pound Theatre's Jason Cavanagh directs his original work Kiss Them All Soundly, an Into The Woods esq look at the darker, grittier side of three re-imagined nursery rhymes.

The Lincoln Center Theater 2008 revival of Rogers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC, starring Lisa McCune, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Eddie Perfect and Kate Ceberano, continues its tour of Australia.

From IDOL to WICKED to LEGALLY BLONDE, Rob "Millsy" Mills has come a long way since making the girls of Brentwood Secondary College cry! As we count down to the LEGALLY BLONDE opening night, here is a glimpse of Millsy's brain on musical theatre .

Paul Dyer fulfills a dream this September when he brings Monteverdi's dramatic masterpiece L'Orfeo to life.

After sell-out seasons across an 18 month Australia wide tour, a triumphant tour of New Zealand and a Helpmann Award for Best Contemporary Australian Concert, The Man in Black is returning to Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide for a limited six performance season from tonight, 11 - 15 September.

Retirement can leave you with a lot of time on your hands.

Chugg Entertainment can today confirm that Sir Elton John's Melbourne Concert will be held on Sunday 18 November at Rod Laver Arena.

Morning Melodies - Singin' in the Rain and More with Victorian Opera will be presented at 11am and 1.

In 2013 MTC presents four world premieres from some of Australia's most accomplished playwrights and five Australian premieres of works from UK, Europe, South Africa and USA.

The producers of Michael Jackson HIStory II, the musical biography of Michael Jackson, have announced a second Adelaide performance to be held in Her Majesty's Theatre tonight, 7 September at 8.

With her star turns in the original productions of LES MISERABLES and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA she gave us our first Cosette, our first Christine.

The Bakehouse Theater in Adelaide is set to present EPHEMERA STAINS, a show featuring two short plays, GODFREY and FILLING IN.

Melbourne's own Taylor Klas (The White Door) is set to star as Joanne from Centrelink in a new cabaret 'Joanne's Real World,' making its debut at the Butterfly club tonight, 4th of September.