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Ada, Asmin & The Analytical Engine
By Chenoah Eljan Ada, Asmin & The Analytical Engine written by Sarah Kriegler and Deniz Aslan delves into the intertwined lives of two girls more alike than they are different: Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician often regarded as the first computer...
Make ‘Em Laugh – The Untold Story of Donald O’Connor
By Nick Pilgrim If the name Donald O’Connor doesn’t immediately appear on your radar, fear not. It is that very premise which kick starts this delightful tribute into action now showing at the 2024 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland before...
Pure Grime
By Jennifer Beasley What happens when one genetically crosses Mr. Bean with Rik Mayall (The Young Ones, Bottom)? No, not that. Well, maybe. Em Barrett performs as a fly in this one-woman 60-minute show held at The Butterfly Club (the choice of the club in terms of...
Come From Away – CLOC
As they celebrate their 60th year, CLOC's final production for the year is the Australian non-professional premiere of Come From Away. Written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away made its Australian professional debut at Melbourne's Comedy...
By A Thread
By Nick Pilgrim The Melbourne Fringe Festival runs each year for three dynamic and jam-packed weeks. Covering a multitude of live entertainment and social event options, this season has already proven it is bigger and stronger than ever. With hundreds of acts on...
Chasing Dick
By Darby Turnbull Over the last few years in Naarm Dax Carnay and her company Tayo Tayo collective have established themselves as a forceful independent theatre practitioner known for her eye-catching titles and her heartfelt, witty queering of genre Trans woman kills...
Skinship
By Jennifer Beasley SKINSHIP (Japan, South Korea): Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones. (Wikipedia). Presented by Ensoul Entertainment, and produced by Samantha Daly, who is also one of...
The Laramie Project
In October 1998 Matthew Wayne Shepard was brutally attacked on the outskirts of his home town of Laramie in Wyoming, USA. Left for dead, and tied to a fence to ensure he was not able to escape, Mathew was miraculously discovered but succumbed to his horrific...
I Love You, Faustus
By Jennifer Beasley BUILDING TRIANGLES Created by Unspooled Theatre Collective, I Love You, Faustus is a sixty-minute two-hander held at the oh-so-cute Explosives Factory for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Written by Laura Charlton and Sabina Donato, I Love You,...
Features
MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2025 SEASON LAUNCH
By Jennifer Beasley Malthouse has announced its 2025 season, with seven bold interpretations and visionary theatre performances, it’s Malthouse’s most audacious season yet. At the season launch for 2025, Matthew Lutten, artistic director and Co-CEO of Malthouse...
Maho Magic Bar plus Darkfield’s Séance and Flight return to Brisbane
By Sarah Skubala An immersive experience precinct has arrived in South Bank, offering the adventurous people of BrisVegas a new destination to be spellbound by multi-sensory thrills. After successful runs at previous Brisbane Festival seasons, the hit Japanese magic...
Sarah Kriegler -this work is pure heart: Ada, Asmin and The Analytical Engine
Travel through space and time on a journey of discovery and connection with the inspiring Melbourne premiere season of Ada, Asmin and The Analytical Engine. Co-written and co-directed by Sarah Kriegler and made in collaboration with math teacher and Turkish refugee,...
Ben Graetz and TINA – A Tropical Love Story
Melt Festival is an annual open access festival of Queer art and culture premiering in Brisbane from 23 October to 10 November 2024 and featuring over 220 performances and events. One of those performances is TINA – A Tropical Love Story written, performed, and...
Quasimodo: a world premiere more than thirty years in the making
When Quasimodo the Musical opens in Melbourne's Capitol Theatre this weekend it will be the world premiere of a musical that has been decades in the making for its writer, Samuel Kristy. As Samuel Kristy discovered, getting a new work produced in...
Di Smith celebrates the beauty of life in Seventeen
WildThingProduction and the Seymour Centre are bringing the hilarious and nostalgic Australian play Seventeen back for a much-anticipated Sydney revival, showing at the Reginald Theatre from 27 September – 19 October. Joyful and profound, Matthew Whittet’s Seventeen...
News
Wit Incorporated – First Love Is The Revolution by Rita Kalnejais
This November, Wit Incorporated makes a blood-splattered return to Bluestone Church Arts Space in Melbourne’s West with First Love is the Revolution. VCA grad Rita Kalnejais (BC, Babyteeth) writes a viciously funny and unforgettable play exploring first love,...
M.A.C releases WICKED collection
INTRODUCING M·A·C COSMETICS x WICKED LIMITED-EDITION COLLECTION A MYER EXCLUSIVE The smash-hit Australian production of the Broadway blockbuster musical WICKED, currently captivating audiences in Brisbane and soon to tour to Perth, has collaborated with global...
Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir’s ECHOES OF PRIDE
Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir (SGLC) is thrilled to present a celebration of diversity, resilience and the unifying power of music with their Echoes of Pride, at Petersham Town Hall on Saturday 26 October. Through a carefully curated selection of songs from over 10...
Melbourne Fringe Festival rolls into its third and final week
Melbourne Fringe Festival enters its final week, serving up a multidisciplinary spread of arts and culture events throughout Melbourne. Running until 20 October, here are some of the shows not to be missed in the final throws of this year’s program: Finucane &...
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