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…
From a galaxy far, far away… Prepare yourself for interstellar aerial feats and warp-speed strippers from outer space because the Briefs boys are back! After a few whirlwind years touring the world with their unique variety of cabaret, comedy, burlesque…
As part of Dance Massive 2019 storming Melbourne in March, Arts House show Narelle Benjamin with Paul White in Cella, a work about cellular life. A frisson of flesh and breath, their mystical romp wrap us up in magical, metaphysical…
Exciting changes are in store for the 29th annual Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), Australia’s largest and longest running celebration of queer cinema. Held over twelve days, the festival has hand-picked a selection of films that are as diverse as…
From the creative mind of Sarah Ward, known for Yana Alana, comes a new sci-fi rock opera The Legend of Queen Kong Episode II: Queen Kong in Outer Space as part of the packed Midsumma Festival lineup. With complete disregard for…
Things turned upside down in this decadent, embellished romp with original compositions and superb music being the unique ingredient on an exciting stage littered with Australian performing greats, Melbourne Theatre Company’s Simon Phillip’s Twelfth Night will see you chuckling in…
Nestled in the heart of St Kilda’s iconic Luna Park, The Famous Spiegeltent will deliver magic, music, thrills and spills to audiences this October as part of the Carnival Dreams show. Built in 1920, the intimate pop-up salon made of…