AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 91

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 wi

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 programmin

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

He's back! Simon Taylor returns to The Butterfly Club with a night of big laughs, sweet music, slick magic and more! There will be special guests including stand-up comedians, cabaret artists, magicians and maybe even the occasional celebrity.

The Kiln, a program of discussions, masterclasses, networking events, forums and training for artists and arts workers, returns to Arts Centre Melbourne this winter from 2 - 29 June, 2019.

You've heard the saying "if you've got nothing nice to say, say nothing at all", well for comedian Mitchell E Roberts saying nothing at all is exactly what his brand of comedy is all about.

The Festival of Jewish Arts and Music (FOJAM), formerly Shir Madness Melbourne, takes over the Melbourne Recital Centre in a day-long immersion of contemporary Jewish culture with 30 performances across music, theatre, dance and conversation on Sunday 8 September, 2019.