Headliners Weezer (Friday), The Smashing Pumpkins (Saturday) and Steve Miller Band (Sunday) will be joined by a wide range of talent rarely booked together for the same event, including 311, Sheryl Crow, Vance Joy, Black Pumas, Lord Huron, Stone Temple Pilots, UB40 feat. Ali Campbell, Cold War Kids and many more, performing on four stages.
After a sold out tour in 2019 in four Australian capital cities and four amazing venues: The Melba Spiegeltent (twice), Sydney Opera House, The Tivoli Brisbane and Adelaide Festival Centre, MATADOR returns to Melbourne for a brief season at the Athenaeum theatre from December 1st 2021.
UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK is a celebration of creativity taking place across the UK in 2022, designed to reach millions and bring people together. It features free large-scale events, installations and globally accessible digital experiences in the UK’s most ambitious showcase of creative collaboration.
The Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award winner was announced as Sonali Bhattacharyya. Her play Chasing Hares presents the Jatra (Bengali folk theatre) stage, the factory floor and the routes of delivery drivers as sites of resistance and transformation in Britain and India.
After a sold out tour in 2019 across four Australian capital cities and four amazing venues: The Melba Spiegeltent, Sydney Opera House, The Tivoli Brisbane and Adelaide Festival Centre, MATADOR returns to Melbourne in the resplendent Her Majesty’s Theatre for a strictly limited season from 29th April 2021 after recent sold-out return seasons in Brisbane & Adelaide.
Creed Bratton Originally slated to land in Australia for the very first time this March, American comedian, actor and musician Creed Bratton has unfortunately been forced to reshuffle his Australian tour dates to October in the wake of continued international border closures.
After a sold out tour in 2019 across four Australian capital cities and four amazing venues: The Melba Spiegeltent, Sydney Opera House, The Tivoli Brisbane and Adelaide Festival Centre, MATADOR returns to Adelaide in a new version especially created for the 2021 Fringe Festival - MATADOR sabor de amor.
After a sold out tour in 2019 across four Australian capital cities and four amazing venues: The Melba Spiegeltent, Sydney Opera House, The Tivoli Brisbane and Adelaide Festival Centre, MATADOR returns to Adelaide in a new version especially created for the 2021 Fringe Festival – MATADOR sabor de amor.
Actor and comedian Eddie Izzard has set himself an extraordinary New Year’s resolution, to stage ‘A Run for Hope’ that will usher in a new year and a new future, encouraging people all over Europe and around the world to unite together to ‘Make Humanity Great Again’
Following a nation-wide search, four finalists have been selected to compete for the 2020 Freedman Classical Fellowship which, by chance, includes three musicians based in Victoria, violinist Harry Ward (24), cellists James Morley (24) and Richard Narroway (29) plus NSW violinist Grace Clifford (22).
Critical Stages Touring, Australia's national touring theatre company, is has announced the launch of a new playwriting program in partnership with the UK's Paines Plough Theatre Company.
Performing Arts Connections Australia today said performing arts centres across the country are dealing with the prospect of ongoing, long-term shutdowns, with the extension of the ban on events and gatherings across the country.
In his final national tour ever, legendary songwriter, “voice of the Stolen Generations” and 2020 Victorian Australian of the Year Archie Roach AM will take his brilliantly reviewed Tell Me Why show to capital cities May through September.
Roadies are amongst the most essential figures in the entertainment world. The reality is, no road crew = no show and it's with our mates in mind, and thanks to the overwhelming response to the inaugural event in March 2019, Roady4Roadies will return on Sunday, 5 April 2020 expanding from capital cities to regional centres with a total of 13 events taking place around the country.
Director Karla Koskinen's sensitive direction gives breadth and depth to THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, featuring a standout performance by Greg Nussen as the central character. The Phoenix Theatre Company's current production runs through November 10th.
Grammy-Award winning and multi-platinum recording artist, songwriter, composer, poet and visual artist Serj Tankian has teamed up with non-profit cultural organization Creative Armenia to release 7 Notes Challenge, a compilation album highlighting some of the most notable submissions from a songwriting challenge posed to artists worldwide. The 17 song album from various artists is available now on all major streaming and download platforms across the globe.
British-Japanese, producerDJ Maya Jane Coles has stepped up to remix Australian indie-electronic quintet Gold Fields' track 'Cocoon' released today via Haven Sounds. The original track is lifted from Gold Field's recently released album, Dalawa. Maya Jane Coles needs no introduction. She has recently done an official remix for Dua Lipa's 'Swansong' with a string of others in her wake including Depeche Mode (Columbia Records), Bonobo (Ninja Tune), The xx (Young Turks), Maceo Plex (Cross Town Rebels), Florence & The Machine (Island Records), Amy Winehouse, and Tricky. Her track 'What They Say' was sampled in the Nicki Minaj song 'Truffle Butter', a collaborative track with Drake and Lil Wayne, and she produced Fabric 75, the 75th edition of London nightclub Fabric's monthly compilation album.
The producers of Billy Elliot the Musical are thrilled to announce they have found the four incredible young actors who will play the title role in the multi award-winning smash hit's 10th Anniversary Australian Tour.
Now with under two months to go and the countdown well and truly on, We The Fest has added yet more acts to this year's stellar lineup.
From their decorated histories as part of the drum and bass echelon, right through to their commercial success amongst some of pop's greatest figures, Matrix & Futurebound pride themselves in their versatility. Their style of cross-over, expertly written drum & bass has enabled their longevity as one of the genre's biggest exports. Matrix & Futurebound's music can be heard both on daytime radio and rolling through underground club speaker stacks which is why they're an imperative force; this ascent is about to accelerate through their forthcoming 'Mystery Machine' album, scheduled for release on 12th April.
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