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Adelaide Festival Centre's Adelaide Cabaret Festival is proud to announce Reilly Muller of Mount Gambier and Zara Nicholson of Loxton as the 2016 winners of the Nathaniel O'Brien Class of Cabaret Scholarship.

Full program and tickets are on sale to subscribers from Sunday 3 April and the general public from Wednesday 6 April through BASS 131 246 or online www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au Program details are available in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival brochure, get one free by calling BASS 131 246 or log onto the Cabaret Festival website.

Due to overwhelming public demand the legendary improvised musical returns toBella Union, Trades Hall, Three Nights Only: Nov. 18, 25 & Dec. 2 at 8pm.

Once upon a time in a land far, far, well not that far, but far enough to make it interesting. There was a giant magical oak tree whose branches protected the forest from all that was evil in the world.

After 30 years being in the background of the finest Australian cabaret, (Meow Meow, Bob Downe, Spontaneous Broadway, Pastel Vespa, Miss Dorothy etc...) the multi-award winning John Thorn has finally got around to doing an original solo show.

Michael Dalley is bringing his hit show of the Adelaide and Melbourne Cabaret Festivals 'Rituals of Art and Hatred' to The Butterfly Club.

Once upon a time in a land far, far, well not that far, but far enough to make it interesting. There was a giant magical oak tree whose branches protected the forest from all that was evil in the world.

 Random Musical is a 'one of a kind' performance especially for kids and families from the award-winning creators of Spontaneous Broadway.  Playing Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre from 29-30 September during the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival, kids and families will help create the script for Random Musical that will be performed on-the-spot by talented comedians Scott Brennan, Rik Brown and Gillian Cosgriff.

Leading lady of the stage, Esther Hannaford, joins comedy double act veterans, Colin Lane (Lano from Lano and Woodley) and David Collins (the hairy one from The Umbilical Brothers), in the witty musical romp that is The 3 Mikados.

The 42nd annual edition of the Chicago area's Bach Week Festival will feature all six of J. S. Bach's beloved 'Brandenburg' Concertos, performed in the course of concerts April 10 at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston and May 1 and 3 at Anderson Chapel at North Park University on Chicago's North Side. The festival is a collaboration between Bach Week and North Park's School of Music. This will be the first Bach Week Festival to present the complete 'Brandenburg' Concerto cycle. Two of the concertos will anchor each principal concert program, alongside other Bach compositions. An intimate, late-evening Candlelight Concert in Evanston on April 10 will offer music for recorder and theorbo, another festival first.

Leading lady of the stage, Esther Hannaford, joins comedy double act veterans, Colin Lane (Lano from Lano and Woodley) and David Collins (the hairy one from The Umbilical Brothers), in the witty musical romp that is The 3 Mikados.

Two double act veterans, Colin Lane (Lano from Lano and Woodley) and David Collins (the hairy one from The Umbilical Brothers), have teamed up to take on a comedy duo from a whole other era - Gilbert and Sullivan.

Button Eye Productions present the premiere of The Orchid & The Crow - a tragi-comedy about faith, sex, identity and ritual, created and performed by Daniel Tobias and directed by Christian Leavesley as part of the The Coopers Malthouse resident artist initiative.

The rumours have swirled for years and now the secret is Out in Bob's brand new live show, Bob, Sweat & Tears! premiering at the Arts Theatre, 53 Angas Street from today, 4 - 15 March, nightly at 7.00pm (bar Mondays) as part of the 2014 Adelaide Fringe. 60 mins General (GA).

The Green Room Awards are Melbourne's performing arts awards and recognise the world-class Cabaret, Dance, Musical Theatre, Opera, Theatre and Alternative and Hybrid Performance productions that grace Melbourne's stages each year. From artistic excellence to technical innovation, a Green Room Award is the most revered accolade an artist can receive in Australia's cultural capital.

The rumours have swirled for years and now the secret is Out in Bob's brand new live show, Bob, Sweat & Tears! premiering at the Arts Theatre, 53 Angas Street from 4 - 15 March, nightly at 7.00pm (bar Mondays) as part of the 2014 Adelaide Fringe. 60 mins General (GA)

Soprano Susanna Phillips, a star of New York's Metropolitan and Chicago's Lyric Opera stages, will headline a concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, in Anderson Chapel at North Park University, 5149 N. Spaulding Ave., Chicago, to benefit the spring 2014 Bach Week Festival in Evanston and Chicago.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. It's the 2013 Regional Summer Musical Theater Guide! Listings for summer theaters in Illinois, Wisconsin, Western Michigan and Northern Indiana, plus The Muny in St. Louis. If you can drive there, there's theater there! But come to our Tony Awards Viewing Party first! Sunday night, June 9th at The Call in Andersonville....