By Alan Ball – Directed By Robert Chuter
‘Sweetheart, people don’t pay your kind for sex. They pay you to leave’
Creator of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning True Blood, Six Feet Under and the Oscar winning screenwriter of American Beauty, Alan Ball’s play is a darkly funny tale of cultural provocation and our...
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ON THE BORDER IN THE MAZE (EXHIBITION 16 MAY- 4 JUNE)
Debut solo exhibition of Melbourne based artist Sepa Moussavi, who has successfully exhibited his work in Tehran where he was born.
Sepa’s artwork reflects on exploring life in the maze of the world as a tenant of the earth, limitless in forms and challenging the norms.
This exhibition portray a slice of life...
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STONNINGTON JAZZ 2012 (17-27 MAY)
Stonnington Jazz now in it’s 7th year of presenting 100% Australian jazz, and is firmly established as an important event on the national jazz calendar. Whether you are a passionate jazz fan or a newcomer to the exciting world of jazz, there are plenty of shows in this year’s program...
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SHOOT FOR THE MOON (17 MAY)
Danielle Matthews presents Shoot for the Moon. Join us for a fantastic night of eclectic entertainment featuring Christie Whelan, Mark Holden, Jonathon Welch, Erin Hasan cast members from Rock of Ages, Love Never Dies, Wicked and many many more!
You’ll be supporting four blind teenagers to fulfill their dream to go to Space...
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HUCKLEBERRY & ME EP LAUNCH – with special guests, Better than The Wizards and Laura Lethlean(18 May)
Contemporary folk meets Celtic inspired band, Huckleberry & Me have been creating music together for just over a year, but their EP titled The Wild One is capturing the attention of music lovers everywhere. Forming in hometown Melbourne, the band has taken influence from classic artists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Kelly,...
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BRUCE MATHISKE – GUITAR VIRTUOSO (19 MAY)
Fiery fretwork, delicate harmonics, notes exploding from both hands to the tenderly caressed all culminating in the rhythmic virtuosity of Guitar Maestro Bruce Mathiskes live concert.
Expect an entertaining night of stringed excellence with infectious rhythms from far flung corners of his guitar as well as Mathiskes engaging, humorous persona as...
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DEANA VP (1-2 JUNE)
The Melbourne Italian Festival presents
DEANA VP (in English)
Theatre play in two acts by award winning Pasquale M Palmieri.
A Melbourne Italian Festival 2012 Australian premiere!
Inspired by the mythological fable of Hercules’ theft of Diana’s favourite deer, DEANA VP (Vice President) whisks you into a busy pocket of Melbourne’s wealthy high flyers,...
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EXPRESSION FASHION GALA AND EXHIBITION (1 JUNE)
Celebrating Youth Culture and Embracing Diversity The Expression Fashion Gala is an annual event held in partnership between Stonnington Youth Services and the Butterfly Foundation, a national organisation supporting Australians with eating disorders and issues relating to negative body image. Beginning in 2007, the Expression Fashion Gala will now run...
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PETER CHAPMAN – ‘NO MUSIC NO SOUL’ ALBUM LAUNCH 8-9 JUNE
After having his music featured on community, alternative, commercial radio networks to later being added throughout national in-store media Peter Chapman returns in 2012 with his long anticipated album release ‘No Music No Soul’ . Hot off the back of two nationally released songs including the title track ‘No Music...
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MICHAEL SPIBY (THE BADLOVES) LIVE @ THE CHAPEL 8-9 JUNE
Being one of Australia’s most talented vocalists, songwriters Michael Spiby has enjoyed unprecedented success with multi platinum group ‘The Bad Loves’ and with his own solo projects.
Michael Spiby and his band The Bad Loves first hit stardom in 1993 with hits Lost, I Remember, Green Limousine and Memphis followed with...
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SARAH-LOUISE YOUNG IN CABARET WHORE (22-24 JUNE)
Direct from the UK, Cabaret Whore starring Sarah-Louise Young is a brilliant character comedy packed with sparkling original songs. Cabaret Whore introduces desperate divas from around the globe, from tortured French chanteuse La Poule Plombée to washed-up lounge crooner Bernie St Claire.
These are the fantastic creations of Sarah-Louise Young, winner...
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KIM SMITH IN ‘MISFIT’ (22-24 JUNE)
A Dark Neo-Weimar Fantasia.
Celebrated Australian cabaret performer Kim Smith returns home to Melbourne from his New York home for the first time in years with a brand new Weimar-era inspired cabaret, ‘Misfit’.
Charting a dark and whimsical path through a ruined, musical landscape of disfigured pop and peculiar period treasures, he...
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SIMPLY BARBRA (28-30 JUNE)
The world’s most acclaimed Barbra Streisand tribute returns to Australia. Described by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘almost as luminous as Streisand herself ‘, Simply Barbra has won numerous awards and sold out tours all over the world – and has received the seal of approval from the lady herself.
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COMICUS ERECTUS – BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND (2 JULY)
**** ‘Political incorrectness at its very best…’ HERALD SUN
From the same producers who bought you IL DAGO comes Comicus Erectus – The Ethnic Comedy Evolution. An all star line up of the best local and international ethnic comedy superstars ever assembled on one stage. A show guaranteed to sell out across...
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Soirée with The Idea of North (7 July)
Fresh back from sell-out performances at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and a whirlwind tour of Asia, The Idea of North return to Chapel Off Chapel for the first time this year. Soirée celebrates some of the finest arrangements the group has performed and recorded over the years including songs from...
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ANGELS IN AMERICA (16 August – 1 September)
Millenium Approaches – Part 1
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Peter Kalos
Winner of four Tony Awards and a Pulitzer prize, this play is set in New York in the Reagan years, the very first years of reports of a then mysterious disease in gay men – AIDS.
There are three interlinked storylines throughout...
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