Theatre’s back baaaaaby! After spending 2020 performing over zoom or to cats in their lounge room, cabaret divas Dolly Diamond and Tash York return to the stage in a double bill of Trash Talk and I’m Not Angry, Just Disappointed at…
Bangers and bingo – what more could we wish for? One of our favourite events of the year Melbourne Music Week was thankfully extended this season and we couldn’t be happier. Our highlight of the season is a special event…
We know how challenging these times are for everyone. In our home city of art and creativity, culture and conviviality, we feel the impact of a city-turned-ghosttown and the silence from the shutdown of our theatres, public venues, bars, restaurants…
Melbourne’s beloved Queer Film Festival (MQFF) is celebrating it’s dirty thirties in 2020 and you are all invited! As Australia’s largest and longest running celebration of queer cinema, the hand-picked program has something for all tastes: yes, even your straight…
Fresh from touring the globe, and picking up the award for ‘Best Cabaret’ at Perth’s notorious Fringe World, the legendary YUMMY is back in Melbourne for Fringe! YUMMY shows have become synonymous with artistic Melbourne drag, circus and world-class burlesque. Their…
It was all guns blazing on opening night of Head First Acrobats brand new Wild West themed show ‘Railed’ at The Melbourne Fringe Festival. Our saddles were fastened but we had no idea where this road was going to take…
Poof Doof invited The Plus Ones down to their new event series All Night Long featuring Casey Leaver. All Night Long was born out of the admiration Poof Doof has for its regular local DJ’s that bring in the crowds…
Delivered at the tail end of The 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival, the second Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival Blak & Bright, with many free sessions from over 60 First Nations storytellers covering all genres – from songs to essays, oral stories…
Words uttered in 1928 ring clear in the cavernous space of fortyfivedownstairs where you will find yourself rethinking your life from the get go. First spoken to a group of female students in one of the first British women-only institutions of higher education,…
Women’s collective agency is on show in a new, Robert Reid directed The Bacchae performed inside the famous former Carlton Courthouse, remade as the La Mama Courthouse Theatre. A play tradition rooted in deeply patriarchal Athenian society, where women are the…