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Dame Edna's MY GORGEOUS LIFE Tour Commences Next Week
by BWW News Desk - September 08, 2019
The grand dame of world theatre, Dame Edna Everage, has been forced out of retirement by the demands of her adoring a?oePrecious Possumsa??, announcing a surprise tour of Australia in September and October.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Partners With Children's Cancer Charity My Room In Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - September 08, 2019
Producers John Frost, Craig Donnell, Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, Langley Park Productions and Neal Street Productions are delighted to announce that Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is partnering with My Room to bring hope, strength and joy to children and their families facing life-threatening cancers.
Three Thousand Students To Perform In The Victorian State Schools Spectacular Next Week
by BWW News Desk - September 06, 2019
Students from across the State are making final rehearsal preparations ahead of the 2019 Victorian State Schools Spectacular (VSSS) performances on Saturday 14th September at Melbourne Arena.
Tash York's Brings BADASS to Melbourne Fringe
by BWW News Desk - September 06, 2019
After huge success with her award-winning, 5-star show Adulting, York is bringing her brand new comedy cabaret Badass to the Melbourne Fringe.
Tony Winner Faith Prince coms to Queensland Performing Arts Centre 4 & 5 October
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2019
Tony award winning Broadway star Faith Prince comes to QPAC and Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 October 2019. Faith Prince has been dazzling Broadway audiences since winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as 'Ms. Adelaide' in Guys and Dolls.
Amity Dry Brings 39 FOREVER To Bunjil Place
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2019
Singer/songwriter Amity Dry will have audiences in stitches when 39 Forever comes to Bunjil Place on Thursday 10 October. This hilarious cabaret is all about feeling 25 even when your birthday stubbornly tells a different story.
Red Stitch Presents The World Premiere Of CONTROL By Keziah Warner
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2019
A heavily pregnant ex-ballerina, a child detective, a bitter puppeteer and a feminist pop princess hurtle towards Mars. The world is watching. Isn't it?
SIBLINGSHIP - Sydney's Sold Out Hit Cabaret Comes To Melbourne And Canberra
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2019
After sold-out shows at The Hayes Theatre Co in Sydney, Siblingship will be touring to both Melbourne and Canberra regions, at Prahran's Chapel Off Chapel and Queanbeyan's The Q Theatre.
THE 91-STOREY TREEHOUSE Comes to Arts Centre Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2019
The team behind the 13-, 26-, 52- and 78-Storey Treehouses Live on Stage! return with a fantastical trip through this wild, weird and wonderful world in The 91-Storey Treehouse at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse this summer from 4 a?" 19 January 2020 as part of the Families Summer/Autumn program.
MTC's 2020 Season Revealed - FUN HOME, AS YOU LIKE IT, and More!
by BWW News Desk - September 03, 2019
Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director & CEO Brett Sheehy today unveiled MTC's 2020 Season, a suite of plays that will ignite imaginations, challenge preconceptions and enrich lives throughout the country.
SONGS FOR NOBODIES Comes to Melbourne and Sydney
by BWW News Desk - September 03, 2019
First performed 10 years ago, SONGS FOR NOBODIES will tour to Geelong Performing Arts Centre from Friday 13 December, Arts Centre Melbourne from Wednesday 18 December and Sydney Opera House from 23 January. This spellbinding one woman play, is a tour de force of imagined encounters between five mid 20th-century divas, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, and five ordinary women.
Arts Centre Melbourne Presents Meeting Points Series: LEAF AND SHADOW
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2019
Leaf and Shadow is the first concert in the Meeting Points Series taking place at The Pavilion in Arts Centre Melbourne on Sunday 22 September, featuring extraordinary traditional Korean bamboo flutist (taegŭm), Hyelim Kim.
COUSIN TARA'S INTERVENTION VARIETY HOUR Comes To Melbourne Fringe
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2019
Following her critically acclaimed solo debut Taranoia (F@TE, MICF 2019), award-winning musical comedian Tara Leigh Dowler (The Spoon Monkeys, Pink Flappy Bits) delivers an hour of eclectic musical comedy that would make Rachel Bloom burst with frenzied delight. Tara is joined each night by a 'concerned' friend: a special guest comedian to share a comforting song or a round of hide-the-chicken-tender. Cousin Tara explores psyche and society; a folk-rock pity party juxtaposed with warm and witty storytelling.
NICA Launches Nationwide Search For Future Circus Stars
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2019
The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), Australia's premier circus arts training organisation, is on the search for our country's next circus stars with their audition roadshow travelling to Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra and their own Melbourne backyard across September and October.  
Stewart D'Arrietta and Band Perform MY LEONARD COHEN at MEMO Music Hall St Kilda
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2019
World class producer, actor and performer of 'Looking Through a Glass Onion' and 'Belly of a Drunken Piano', Stewart D'Arrietta, returns to MEMO with his stirring interpretations of the great, late Leonard Cohen's powerful works, in 'My Leonard Cohen', a celebration of Leonard Cohen's life and music.
Celebrate The 80s and Judy Garland in Concert at Deakin Edge
by BWW News Desk - September 01, 2019
On Saturday 7th September at 2.30pm Play it Forward is excited to present 'Back to the 80's' followed by 'Liane Keegan Sings The Judy Garland Songbook' at 7 pm.
Back to Back Theatre Receives $100,000 Grant for Feature Film Debut
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 30, 2019
Internationally acclaimed Back to Back Theatre has plans to take on the big screen, with the support of the Victorian Government.
Record Crowds Attend Acclaimed SUPERSENSE: Festival Of The Ecstatic At Arts Centre Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - August 30, 2019
Arts Centre Melbourne's mesmerising Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic has drawn record crowds across three days of ecstatic enquiry, with 10,865 attendees over 23 a?" 25 August, 2019.
PAC Australia Announces Winners Of The 2019 Drover Awards For Excellence In The Field Of Performing Arts Touring
by BWW News Desk - August 29, 2019
Winners of the 2019 Drover Awards were announced on Thursday 29 August at the Sunshine Coast's Aussieworld at the closing celebration of the 33rd annual PAC Australia conference, REAP: More. Deeper. Different.
GYM JUNKIE Announced At Melbourne Fringe 2019
by BWW News Desk - August 28, 2019
What to wear, when to train and how to avoid carbs in this hilarious cabaret with Alice Springs cabaret chanteuse Lisa-Marie Ryan
Arts Centre Melbourne Welcomes New Trust Members
by BWW News Desk - August 28, 2019
The Victorian Arts Centre Trust, which oversees the iconic Arts Centre Melbourne, has recently welcomed two Trustees to the Board confirmed by the Victorian Government Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, MP.
Arts Centre Melbourne Presents HIGH TEA LIVE - Steaming Jazz With Stevenson's Rockets
by BWW News Desk - August 28, 2019
Arts Centre Melbourne presents High Tea Live - Steaming Jazz with Stevenson's Rockets, Sunday 6 October at 12pm.
THE LONELINESS PROJECT Comes to Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2019
Gavin Roach and Connor Ross present the World Premiere of The Loneliness Project.
YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU Comes to Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2019
Do you remember the panic attack you had the first, and only, time you fisted someone? Gavin does. And it was hilarious.
TRANSGRESSION Comes to Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2019
Gavin Roach and Jacob Thomas present the World Premiere of Transgression.

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