One of the world’s best dance companies ever, our own indigenous dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre, celebrates 30 years of production excellence with a triptych anniversary show, 30 Years of sixty five thousand, demonstrating their cultural and artistic depth as…
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…
Melbourne’s Milan Milutinovic is the driving force behind his band, The New Savages, who recently launched their latest album, The Seventh Son, in St. Kilda. A highly danceable Indie- Blues band, their influences comprise the century old original recordings of…
See a world of imagination come to life with live orchestration, vivid colour, catchy songs, and top stage performances to recreate Roald Dahl’s playful 1964 children’s classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The New Musical.Relive all your childhood hopes and…
This plays got it all. At the Australian premiere of the play adaptation of the 1998 Oscar-winning Film, Shakespeare In Love you gain access to the height of the English literary canon, men in tights, a stunning set evoking London…
Two dance companies from opposite sides of the world combined to showcase the best of the Ukrainian diaspora spirit in colourful and energetic flair in RAZOM, Two Nations, One Spirit. Melbourne’s own Lehenda Ukrainian Dance Company shared the stage with…
While everyone in Melbourne has heard of a big theatrical production about a certain boy wizard, we’re here to tell you about a new musical in town that deserves to be added to your ‘must see’ list. Come From Away…
Shakespearean specialist national treasure, Bell Shakespeare has Associate Director James Evans in the drivers seat on their latest national touring play, Much Ado About Nothing and what fun is to be had in this gender roles romp he takes us…
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…
In Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds, an original play with songs, the show starts with the voice of God (a Kiwi woman) stating the rules of this Afterworld the quartet exist in. Four handsome Maori men stand in black suits…