AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 30

Stewart Reeve, star of the hit show Rebel, returns to the stage this July with his award-winning one-man show, Chameleon.

International leading lady Kirby Lunn is starring in a new one-woman show MESShead.

MLOC Productions Inc presents ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ as their first feature musical following pandemic lockdowns that saw Melbourne theatre come to a halt.

Stage Bugs Productions will present the beloved musical, 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'.

Boyname is beckoning you under their skin in their upcoming show, Reconcile.

The Melbourne Cabaret Festival has announced the full program for its highly anticipated return from Tuesday 4 to Sunday 9 July 2023.

Grand theatricality, kitsch Australiana, larger-than-life characters, and kids we’ve all seen, known, and a lot of us once were - this July, Theatre Works brings one of Australia’s most iconic works back to the stage.

The first casting announcement has been revealed for the anticipated Australian production of 2:22 - A Ghost Story, with one of Australia's most highly regarded leading actors, Daniel MacPherson, confirmed to play the role of 'Ben'.

Dance Buena Vista takes Melbourne by storm for one night of sizzling Latin entertainment from the phenomenon behind Buena Vista Social Club.

Due to overwhelming pre-sale demand, Frontier Touring and presenting partner AAMI are pumped to announce one of Australia’s favourite entertainers, Jimmy Rees, has added two new Melbourne and Sydney shows to his now 14-show Australia-wide Not That Kinda Viral Tour for Aug-Nov 2023! ​

Award-winning independent theatre company, Wit Incorporated, have announced their next Melbourne season, directed by Ruby Rees (Punk Rock).

A brand-new production of the number one party musical GREASE is set to debut as Melbourne's summer musical at Her Majesty's Theatre from January 2024 and the Capitol Theatre in Sydney from March 2024.

Comedian Judith Lucy takes the stage in Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece Happy Days, opening on Friday 5 May at Southbank Theatre.

A dynamite time travel comedy is set to rock Melbourne from June 21 in the unmistakable shape and form of two of Australia’s funniest actors, Louise Siversen and Peter Houghton.

The Wrong Horse explores the world of small-time crime in Melbourne.

The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is set to take audiences on an imaginative and moving musical journey with their upcoming national tour of Utopias between 10-22 May.

The Melbourne Cabaret Festival will make its highly anticipated return from Tuesday 4 to Sunday 9 July 2023.

Antipodes Theatre Company has announced the lead artists who will be participating in the fourth annual Winter Lab for bold work and new ideas, taking place 19 June - 1 July, 2023.

Having recently returned from award winning performances at Adelaide Fringe Festival and in Queensland, Jens Radda will be performing a new original show Jens Radda: Skank Sinatra at The Butterfly Club from 29 May - 3 June, 2023 at 7pm.

Melbourne-born talents, baritone Samuel Dundas and soprano Anna-Louise Cole, will both make exciting role debuts when Opera Australia presents Wagner's Tannhäuser in two exclusive concert performances at Hamer Hall on 17 and 20 May.

BWWAustralia's Guest Writer Hums Engineer chats with Tyran Parke, Artistic Director of the Australian Musical Theatre Festival being held in Launceston, Tasmania from 17 - 21 May 2023

Following sell-out seasons across Australia in 2022, SHAKE RATTLE ‘N’ ROLL The Happy Days Tour is back, and it’s more spectacular and ready to rock audiences of all ages!  

Is happiness just a fairy-tale?  When two lost souls are brought together by Tinder, the boundaries of a first date are broken.

In a one-night-only, Melbourne exclusive concert, Opera Australia will present its premiere performance of Philip Glass' hypnotic masterpiece, Satyagraha at Hamer Hall on Saturday 13 May.

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