AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 257

Following on from the success of The Mousetrap at the Zenith Theatre in April this year, Bump In Productions are excited to present the third fully professional production in their spine-tingling Zenith Theatre Murder Mysteries series, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None playing from 19th - 2

Lesbian performance artist and raconteur Kimberly Dark of Hawai‘i brings 'Good Fortune' to The Butterfly Club for its Australian debut.

Following the success of the BWW awards in eight regional markets last year and the substantial rise in interest in Australian theatre, the time has come for Australia to vote! The nominations for the inaugural 2011 BWW:Australia Awards are now open!

Lesbian performance artist and raconteur Kimberly Dark of Hawai‘i brings 'Good Fortune' to The Butterfly Club for its Australian debut.

The Melbourne Festival may have ended, but fortyfivedownstairs doesn't stop.

Having become one of the longest running musicals to be staged at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne and opening to universal critical acclaim, it was announced today that, due to the current economic down turn in Australia impacting on single ticket sales in Sydney, the Sydney season of Rock of Ages,

Throughout the year, Adelaide Festival Centre Season 2012 will present over 200 performances and 45 individual shows encompassing music, theatre, dance, circus, 10 exhibitions, with 11 forums and workshops and seven films.

Blackwood Players announce their third show of 2011, The Umpire Strikes Back.

Sydney Theatre Company presents THE WHARF REVUE- Debt Defying Acts, written and created by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott.

After successful seasons in five New Zealand cities 'Chet Baker: Like Someone in Love' will be performed in Australia for the first time from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th of October 2011 at The Butterfly Club in Melbourne.

SHORT+SWEET Theatre Festival, running from 1 to 12 November 2011 is longer and juicier this year.

Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company present Harold Pinter's classic No Man's Land, starring Australian theatre greats Peter Carroll and John Gaden.

David Berthold's acclaimed production of Brendan Cowell's Australian comedy Ruben Guthrie enters its final weeks at La Boite's Roundhouse Theatre.

The South Melbourne Business Association is launching the first ever South Melbourne Festival to celebrate the diversity and innovation in the area and showcase its unique traders.

Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet plays the Bakehouse Theater.

Three new works by award-winning Melbourne playwrights Paul Galloway, Melissa Reeves and Robert Reid will be road-tested at MTC's 2011 Cybec Readings on 22, 23 and 24 November 2011 at 7pm at the MTC Theatre, Lawler Studio.

In a major events coup for Victoria, the Minister for Tourism and Major Events Louise Asher today joined Global Creatures at auditions for King Kong, to announce that the world premiere and only Australian season will take place at Melbourne's Regent Theatre in early 2013.

Following on from the success of The Mousetrap at the Zenith Theatre in April this year, Bump In Productions are excited to present the third fully professional production in their spine-tingling Zenith Theatre Murder Mysteries series, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None playing from 19th - 2

Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet plays the Bakehouse Theater.

Australia's Ghostboy returns to Melbourne to present his new spoken weird neo-cabaret show.

The 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival will take place from Wednesday 28 March - Sunday 22 April and registrations to get your show in the program open today, Monday 17 October at 12noon.

The Club is at 204 Bank Street, South Melbourne.

Adelaide's Debora Krizak will play the sexy, full of attitude character of Sheila Bryant in the stunning Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical A CHORUS LINE opening in Adelaide's Festival Theatre on 31 December.

Walking into the Forum Theatre last night was like walking into the latest, funkiest nightclub and then taking a very legal dose of the world class Australian Tom Tom Crew.

The Melbourne Festival comes to fortyfivedownstairs.