Gillian Cosgriff News

New late night variety show, The Glitter and Doom Salon opens at the Edinburgh Festival stage this week with an evolving lineup of cabaret and vaudeville artists taking part, making each night a unique experience.

Cosgriff is an award-winning musical comedian (Winner Best Cabaret Melbourne Fringe 2013, Winner Green Room Awards Original Songs 2013) who has garnered rave reviews and toured extensively across Australia. Drawing on personal experiences has always been the key to her work and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things is no exception. 'Almost everything in this show is true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent,' she says, 'but some real names are included to incriminate the guilty.'

Cosgriff is an award-winning musical comedian (Winner Best Cabaret Melbourne Fringe 2013, Winner Green Room Awards Original Songs 2013) who has garnered rave reviews and toured extensively across Australia. Drawing on personal experiences has always been the key to her work and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things is no exception. "Almost everything in this show is true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent," she says, "but some real names are included to incriminate the guilty."

The Butterfly Club have a proud 17-year history of presenting independent cabaret, theatre, music, comedy and burlesque. For this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, they have rolled out their most ambitious and exciting program to date. Over the four weeks of the festival, they will play host to 19 productions, totalling 157 individual performances. Crazy? Probably. Logistical nightmare? Definitely. Brilliant? Absolutely.

?Once again, Oz Showbiz Cares / Equity Fights AIDS gathers the stars of Australia's musical theatre and cabaret industry to raise funds for the fight against HIV and AIDS. Hats Off! returns to the Seymour Centre's York Theatre on 22 February and guarantees to be a night of fabulous entertainment.

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

With two-time Green Room Award nominee Nick Simpson-Deeks as Robert and Sally Bourne as Joanne. One of the most beloved and ground-breaking works in the Sondheim cannon, Watch This will present along awaited season of Company at fortyfivedownstairs. Company is a musical comedy, which explores love, relationships and the struggle for intimacy - the original production was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards and won six.

Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY will soon be presented by Watch This at Fortyfivedownstairs. BWW had the opportunity to ask Director Kat Henry and cast Nick Simpson-Deeks (Robert) and Sally Bourne (Joanne) a few questions ahead of opening night.

Legendary children's entertainer Peter Combe, an inter-galactic adventure with Polyglot Theatre and a chance to help create a totally random musical are among the highlights of Darebin Arts' September School Holiday program held across Northcote Town Hall and Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre (DAEC) from Saturday 19 September - Sunday 4 October, 2015.

With two-time Green Room Award nominee Nick Simpson-Deeks as Robert and Sally Bourne as Joanne. One of the most beloved and ground-breaking works in the Sondheim cannon, Watch This will present along awaited season of Company at fortyfivedownstairs. Company is a musical comedy, which explores love, relationships and the struggle for intimacy - the original production was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards and won six.

The municipality on the fringes of Melbourne's inner-north, the City of Darebin is poised to provide Melburnians with an authentic 'fringe' experience during the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival from Wednesday 16 - Saturday 3 October, 2015. Boasting a mix of cutting-edge and innovative dance, theatre and family entertainment at flagship venues Northcote Town Hall and Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre in Preston, Darebin Arts' 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival season will set the city's Northern suburbs alight with festival activity.

 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.

Rooted in Weimar era German Kabarett, with touches of Dadaism evident, My Vagabond Boat is about loss, enforced travel, and seeking new lives.

The packed audience showed their appreciation with continuous bursts of applause and laughter.

Australian comedy legend Barry Humphries makes his debut as Artistic Director for this year's Festival, promising to capture your heart and soul along with plenty of "beauty, wit and astonishment" in an outstanding program of music, story-telling, comedy and incredible talent.

The 12th annual Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest (YTICC) promises a spectacular line-up of talent from all walks of the Australian and New Zealand entertainment industry.

a musical of Gertrude Stein is an inspired new musical about the brilliant American expatriate writer, Gertrude Stein and her passion for life, language and the thrill of romantic love.

The Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest (YTICC), previously the Australian Cabaret Showcase, will once again undertake heats in major cities across Australia and New Zealand in January 2015.

Hayes Theatre Co is thrilled to be hosting experienced masters of the craft of cabaret , such as Mark Nadler, David Campbell and John Bucchino, Rhonda Burchmore and Donna Lee; up-and-coming young stars like Tom Sharah, Gillian Cosgriff, Brendan Hay, Matt Gilbertson, and Hilary Cole; and even a show where the two worlds meet - Phil Scott's collaboration with Blake Bowden, Mario.