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BORN AGAIN Announced At The Butterfly Club
by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2019
Some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them and others are born without their placenta.
Vanessa Steinberg Returns To The Butterfly Club With NOT QUITE WHITE
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2019
NOT QUITE WHITE, 1st and 8th of June 2019. After surviving six hours of heart surgery, a week before her Comedy Festival run, Vanessa Steinberg returns to the Butterfly Club to dislodge your chakras and disturb your decorum.
Arts Centre Melbourne and Black Honey Company Present ONE THE BEAR
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2019
One the Bear (OTB) is a game-changing production for young people and audiences with radical hearts and curious minds. Pushing the boundaries of form, style and storytelling OTB shows at Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio as part of the Big World, Up Close and Families Winter/Spring programs this 8 - 10 August. It's a neon saturated hyper-fairytale for the hip hop generation that seeks to decolonise via allegory and music.
Christian Hull and Tanya Hennessy Announce Joint LOW EXPECTATIONS Tour
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2019
Frontier Comedy is thrilled to announce the first ever joint show for Australia's most adorable BFFs, Christian Hull & Tanya Hennessy! The pair are joining forces to perform live on stage together on their first joint tour - beginning with a show at City Hall on Tanya's home turf of Newcastle on Thursday 27 June, before heading to Brisbane's Old Museum on Friday 28 June, Sydney's Factory Theatre on Saturday 29 June and wrapping up at Melbourne's Comic's Lounge on Sunday 30 June. 
Michael Buble Will Embark On An Australian Tour In February 2020
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2019
TEG DAINTY announced today that global superstar Michael Buble will return in February 2020 with a 36-piece orchestra to thrill Australian audiences on his five-city tour taking in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth.
Artistic Director And Co-CEO Rob Tannion Will Leave Circus Oz
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2019
Artistic Director and Co-CEO Rob Tannion will leave after transforming the company Circus Oz announces that Artistic Director and Co-CEO Rob Tannion will leave the company on Friday, 28 June 2019 as he accepts a fantastic opportunity with Cirque du Soleil.
Ramsay Art Prize 2019 Winner To Be Announced This Friday
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2019
The winner of the Ramsay Art Prize 2019 will be announced at the Art Gallery of South Australia on Friday 24th May at 11am by James & Diana Ramsay Foundation Chairman, Nicholas Ross.
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN By Virginia Woolf Comes to fortyfivedownstairs
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2019
fortyfivedownstairs and La Mama present Sentient Theatre's production of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, adapted for the stage and Directed by Peta Hanrahan, 17 - 28 July, 2019.
Full Cast Announced For SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE at MTC
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2019
Melbourne Theatre Company's most ambitious production to date, Shakespeare in Love, will have its Australian premiere on Friday 19 July at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse, before going on to play at Canberra Theatre Centre from 22-31 August.
Australian Youth Dance Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary With An Empowering Program & International Collaborations!
by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2019
The biennial Australian Youth Dance Festival is delighted to announce a dynamic program of workshops, performances and panels for its 10th Festival taking place in Melbourne from 7 - 12 July.  Over five exhilarating days young dancers from Ghana, Denmark, the UK, Scotland and India will work with their peers from across Australia in a program that places young dancers at the forefront as artistic collaborators, provocateurs and future leaders.
Bar'd Work Presents MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2019
Following a sold out Sydney season, new theatre company Bar'd Work are launching their famous comedy Much Ado About Nothing in Melbourne as part of the inaugural Shakesbeer Sessions. Expect fast, funny and irreverent 90-minute Shakespeare, performed in a selection of Melbourne's most iconic pub venues.
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Unveils 2019 Official Selection
by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2019
Without remaining in the slipstream of the film festivals out of which Melbourne Documentary Film Festival extracts some of its highlights (TIFF, Tribeca, Hot Docs, DOC NYC, and such likes), the fourth edition of this young though quite well-known film event in the circuit promises also to add again its own line-up of discoveries. Nine feature documentaries picked up by Netflix, while other nine Feature documentaries that became Oscar eligible were screened previously at MDFF. Only 2018 saw 4 feature documentaries of its official selection make the Oscar longlist, one of the highest of any documentary-only film festival in Australia.
Women Of The White House Cabaret Comes to The Butterfly Club
by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2019
Women of the White House is an all-singing, all-dancing, part drag, all wigs, tell-all expose of true facts, fake news, and modern day right wing conservative feminism from inside the big orange world of Trump.
NICA Presents DISPERSION
by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2019
The National Institute of Circus Arts presents Dispersion - a contemporary, abstract circus work set to live improvised music, exploring the forces that both separate and bind humankind.
THE RED TREE Comes to Arts Centre Melbourne
by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2019
Australian artist, writer and filmmaker Shaun Tan's award-winning picture book, The Red Tree, will be brought to life on stage in a new musical theatre work at Arts Centre Melbourne from 3 - 4 August, 2019. The much loved darkly beautiful book is the work of multi award-winning playwright Hilary Bell, award- winning songwriter and composer Greta Gertler Gold, production designer James Browne and director Neil Gooding.
MTC's Production of VIOLENT OUTBURST Will Embark on Tour
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2019
Melbourne Theatre Company's production of The Violent Outburst That Drew Me to You, directed by Prue Clark, commences its regional tour in Mildura on Wednesday before going on to play at three other leading performing arts venues in Victoria, as well as Launceston College and Hobart's Theatre Royal in Tasmania.
Tap Dancers, T-Rex, and Triceratops Come to Melbourne Museum
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2019
More than 100 dancing glamour kittens in polka-dot dresses will tap dance into history with the dinosaurs at the Melbourne Museum in a fabulous burst of colour and sound on Sunday 26 May from 11.00am.
Russell Howard Announces Extra Shows In Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth
by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2019
After the global success of Netflix special Recalibrate, The Russell Howard Hour - which spawned over 127 million views worldwide on social media - and 2017 international record-breaking sell-out tour Round The World, RUSSELL HOWARD, one of the UK's most successful comedians, returns to Australia with his largest world stand-up tour to date, Respite.
Circus Oz Welcomes New Board Members And Recruits For An Executive Director
by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2019
Circus Oz Chair, Nick Yates, highlighted that the new Board members offer skills and experience that will complement the Circus Oz strategic vision, including the company's diversity of audience and community engagement; and also the artistic vibrancy of the expanded portfolio approach to programming.
Andre De Vanny Brings SWANSONG To Bunjil Place
by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2019
Back by popular demand and following sell-out seasons in New York, Los Angeles and Melbourne in 2018, Swansong returns to Melbourne showing at Bunjil Place Studio on Wednesday 22 May 22 at 7:30pm.
Grace Knight From Eurogliders Joins The Choir Of Hard Knocks At 'Seasons Of Love' Concert
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2019
Grace will help Jonathon Welch to say farewell as the choir's founding Artistic Director after 13 years at Seasons of Love on Sunday June 2nd, in the gorgeous Melbourne Town Hall.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE Benefit Concert And Gala Announced
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2019
On Friday 26th July, performers from across Melbourne will come together for a special night of live music and gala entertainment to fundraise for Sands, the miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal charity.
Arts Centre Melbourne Presents BIG WORLD, UP CLOSE Festival
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2019
Over the past two years, Arts Centre Melbourne's Theatre & Contemporary Performance series Big World, Up Close has gripped audiences with powerhouse performances showcasing some of the most compelling new works from across the globe.
Paul Keating - But Not As You Know Him - To Appear At QPAC
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2019
One of Australia's favourite performers, Jonathan Biggins, will morph into Paul Keating - visionary, reformer and rabble-rouser - in the critically acclaimed new comedy The Gospel According to Paul at Queensland Performing Art Centre's (QPAC) Cremorne Theatre from 9 to 13 July. 

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