AUSTRALIA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 95

Live Performance Australia (LPA) today announced the 19th annual Helpmann Awards, which will see the stars of the live performance industry come together for two remarkable nights in Melbourne, the cultural capital of Australia, for the very first time.

Manilla Street Productions is thrilled to announce the Australian premiere of THE BEAUTIFUL GAME in Melbourne in September 2019.

Red Stitch presents the Australian premiere of Wakey Wakey, the latest work from acclaimed American playwright Will Eno.

Follow Jeneane through her world as she deals with boiz, bitchez, lyf & luv: the highz & the lowz, the sunsetz & the cocktailz, the brunchez & the baggiez, the pilatez & the pingerz.

Following from award winning show CULL and Green Room nominated Let's Get Practical! Live, Honor and Patrick are tired of comedy and are hanging up their red noses and anal beads to endeavour on their most serious show yet, Poopie Tum Tums.

Comedian and classically-trained double bassist Taco Kuiper is set to take the Melbourne International Comedy Festival by storm this year, with her exceptional debut production.

Two-time Emmy Award-winning actress and musician Megan Mullally (Will & Grace, Parks & Recreation) and musician, actress and writer Stephanie Hunt (Friday Night Lights, Californication) perform with their 'punk-vaudeville' band Nancy And Beth over two Melbourne Recital Centre performances on 12 and

With the extraordinary success of the Oscar nominated and record-breaking biopic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' the timing could not be better for Queen fans to experience the incredible talent of Marc Martel.

Rowan Thambar's act is just as diverse as his face.

Martin Dunlop brings his special brand of dark humour back to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Small Tales of Little Mercy.

The critically acclaimed musical COME FROM AWAY today announced its final three cast members ahead of the Australian premiere at the newly refurbished Comedy Theatre, Melbourne in July.

Fun, feisty and incredibly fertile Odette! is the larger-than-life cleaning lady everybody loves to love.

Babies aged 0-12 months and their carers are invited to experience an immersive sensory theatre experience, Only A Year at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 - 16 March 2019.

From the song that made them to the one that says goodbye, three stellar Australian artists will share the soundtracks to their lives in Seven Songs to Leave Behind at Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall on 18 May 2019.

After selling out 33 of their regular Friday night shows in 2018, Melbourne's masters of improvised comedy The Big HOO-HAA! return to Melbourne Town Hall for the 2019 Melbourne Comedy Festival with three hilarious marquee nights.

Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) will showcase the evolution of Aboriginal song and dance in South East Queensland in its new free exhibition Tomorrow's Traditions, running in the Tony Gould Gallery from 12 March to 1 June 2019.

The spectacular new musical Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is coming to Melbourne in August this year, playing at Her Majesty's Theatre, following a hugely successful season in Sydney.

It's time to have some fun with all the naughty, sexy and downright dirty opera classics.

HAVE YOU EVER SCREAMED AT A BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE? HAVE YOU EVER SCREECHED AT A BUDDING FLOWER? HAVE YOU EVER CURSED LOUDLY AT THE SIGHT OF A NEW BORN BUB? IS YOUR INTERNAL SCREAM SOMETIMES LOUDER THAN YOUR VERBAL SCREAM? DO YOU FIND YOURSELF SILENTLY SCREAMING WHEN MEN CALL YOU "darlin?" DOES YOUR BRAI

Tony and Olivier Award-winner, 'Disney Legend' and musical theatre royalty Lea Salonga announces she will be returning to Australia in November 2019 for an east coast tour.

It's live comedy's most ludicrous game show! Join your hosts Stephanie and Paul, and one enormous wheel.

Cirque du Soleil will return to Australia from October this year with its most acclaimed touring show, KURIOS - Cabinet of Curiosities.

Aidan Jones is bringing his latest international sell-out comedy show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2019 - the incredibly unique story of a real-life journal written over an entire year on a deck of playing cards.

Han Zimmer, Jacob Shea and David Fleming's cinematic compositions come to life as Sydney Symphony Orchestra pairs with BBC Studio's magnificent marine life footage for BLUE PLANET II LIVE IN CONCERT, narrated live by Joanna Lumley.