Tim Minchin · Tim's playing some Solo Gigs around the UK (and Ireland) this summer!". Tim Minchin . Retrieved 4 June 2023. Songs added for the 2021 tour include "Airport Piano", "The Absence of You" and "Talked Too Much, Stayed Too Long". On the final UK tour date at Shepherd's Bush Empire, an impromptu rendition of the song "White Wine in the Sun" was also performed after the encore. The musical, written by Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly, was a "blast of nasty fun" according to the Associated Press. The 2019 tour featured old songs from his previous musical comedy shows and songs from his stage musicals Matilda, Groundhog Day and his TV series Upright. It also featured new songs reflecting Minchin's past experiences, relationships, social and political views such as "If This Plane Goes Down", "Leaving LA", "I'll Take Lonely Tonight", "Carry You" and "Talked Too Much, Stayed Too Long" which also feature on Minchin's studio album Apart Together released in 2020. [2] [3] [4]

Tim Minchin on being a composer, activist and comedian". RNZ. 28 June 2017. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 . Retrieved 23 March 2018. UPDATE (22/07/20): Tim’s #UPRIGHT Q&A with Judd Apatow, hosted by ATX Festival, with Sundance Now and eONE TV, is available to watch here. Airport Piano" is available Now! #NEWSINGLE". timminchin. 25 September 2020 . Retrieved 10 November 2020. ARIA Awards Best Comedy Release". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . Retrieved 17 April 2022. Linzy (24 March 2010). "T-talkin' About Some Aussie Telly". TimMinchin.com . Retrieved 5 April 2010.Minchin, Tim (8 April 2011). "Storm!!!!!!!!". TimMinchin.com, News and Blog . Retrieved 12 February 2017. The royal commission had been called to investigate how institutions like schools, churches, and government organisations have responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse. [88] When the royal commissioner granted the 74-year-old George Pell permission to appear as a witness via video link from Rome, rather than attend in person as he had previously done, Minchin wrote the song "Come Home (Cardinal Pell)". In response, a statement from Pell's office said the cardinal had led the battle against child abuse in the church for 20 years. [89] Attorney General George Brandis told ABC TV that giving evidence by video was "not at all unusual". [90] Prince, Kate (11 August 2017). "Tim Minchin's reworked 'I still call Australia home…aphobic' is already a Facebook hit". Business Insider. Musical hit Matilda has been honoured at this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards, winning the theatre prize Daoust, Phil (16 August 2005). "Tim Minchin, Gilded Balloon". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 November 2010.

Screen Music Awards winners announced". APRA AMCOS Australia. 1 December 2020. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020 . Retrieved 14 December 2020. As featured artist [ edit ] List of singles released as featured artist, with year released and album details shownIn 2008, Minchin was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to write the music and lyrics for Matilda the Musical, adapted by Dennis Kelly and based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was revealed that Minchin had already tried to obtain permission from the Dahl estate to write a musical version of the book in the early 2000s for youth theatre in Australia. The director Matthew Warchus approached Minchin after seeing his Ready for This? tour and hearing his song White Wine in the Sun. The musical premiered at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, running from 9 November 2010 to 30 January 2011, and it began its West End run at the Cambridge Theatre on 25 October 2011 to great critical acclaim, winning a record-breaking 7 Laurence Olivier Awards including Best New Musical. [66] [67] In 2013, Matilda opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre, [68] and earned 12 Tony Award nominations, winning 4. [69] The musical has subsequently been presented worldwide winning numerous awards. The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". They commenced in 1982. [143] Year Tim Minchins and Dennis Kelly's Roald Dahl adaptation was called "the best family musical in years" in the Chicago Tribune's review Tim Minchin's Cardinal George Pell song hurting abuse victims, Jesuit priest says". ABC News. 18 February 2016 . Retrieved 4 March 2016. Tim Minchin to star in new series Upright | Media centre". Screen Australia . Retrieved 29 December 2018.

Matilda the Musical has earned itself a whopping ten nominations for this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards, which is the maximum for which it was eligible, including Best New MusicalThe award-winning and record-breaking Groundhog Day The Musical will have its Australian premiere in Melbourne early next year.

Arthur, Tim (2 December 2010). "Tim Minchin: interview". Time Out. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012 . Retrieved 8 September 2011.a b Bennett, Steve. "Second Matilda song becomes a children's book: News 2022: Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk . Retrieved 19 June 2023. The Olivier Award-winning, Grammy and Tony Award nominated polytalent plays a handful of intimate, informal, solo dates in the UK this summer. Linzy (15 March 2009). "Interview One – 11th October 2007 at Fagan's, Sheffield, UK". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011 . Retrieved 8 January 2010. Snow, Georgia (11 November 2015). "Matilda writers Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly awarded honorary degrees from Mountview". The Stage . Retrieved 11 November 2015. The show also toured Australia under the title Tim Minchin vs. The Orchestras, where he performed with the city state orchestra in each location.