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Circus Oz | Precarious
⊜ Southern Cross Lawn, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens, Birdwood Ave Melbourne
Circus Oz tumbles into Melbourne in their 40th year, with a brand new show Precarious. This year the Circus Oz Big Top will be nestled within the trees beside the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, M ..

Ovariacting : A Period Drama
⊜ Chapel off Chapel - 12 Little Chapel Street Prahran
Jamie Boiskin's a menstrual activist. Wait, wait, come back! I promise it's okay! Fighting the good fight to make the world comfortable with talking about the bloody elephant in the room, her peri ..

The Big Bubble Show!
⊜ Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collings Street, Melbourne Melbourne
Make amazing memories for your children these winter school holidays at The Big Bubble Show! Starring the UK's incredible Samsam Bubbleman, holder of 10 Guiness World Records, and seen by 100,000' ..

3 Speed Crunch Box - Rebooted
⊜ Drum Theatre, corner of Lonsdale and Walker street, Dandenong Dandenong
3 Speed Crunch Rebooted by Dislocate "The kids were absolutely mesmerised with eyes not even blinking.They laughed, clapped and cheered throughout." The world-touring, crazy stunt people from Di ..

A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
⊜ Melbourne
The Production Company presents A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder 27 October - 11 November 2018 | Playhouse $48 - $143 Don't miss the Australian premiere of the Tony Award winning drop- ..

A New Brain
⊜ Melbourne
HELP US BRING A NEW BRAIN HOPPING INTO 2019! The Popular Mechanicals and CGTC, creators behind 2016 production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at MTC's Lawler Theatre present A New B ..

An Ideal Husband
⊜ Melbourne
Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband 16 July-18 August 2018 Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse Successful politician Sir Robert Chiltern has it all – money, power and the love of his adoring wif ..

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
⊜ Melbourne
BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical THE BROADWAY SENSATION IS COMING TO MELBOURNE Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opens at Her Majesty's Theatre this February and tickets are now on sale! C ..

Blackie Blackie Brown
⊜ Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt Street Southbank
SEASON 2018 BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN: THE TRADITIONAL OWNER OF DEATH 5 - 29 JULY 2018 BY NAKKIAH LUI On a dig in the Australian outback, archaeologist Dr. Jacqueline Black unearths a mystical sk ..

BLASTED
⊜ Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt Street Southbank
SEASON 2018 BLASTED 24 AUG - 16 SEP 2018 BY SARAH KANE A gin-swigging journalist and his young lover check into an anonymous hotel room. When a soldier and a war zone explode through the bathroo ..

Brave World - Retro Futurismus
⊜ fortyfivedownstairs. 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000 Melbourne
The Feminista Supernovas of Retro Futurismus are back, conjuring grand visions out of two-dollar-shop bling and obsolete technology. Anna Lumb, Anni and Maude Davey and Teresa Blake take variety t ..

BROTHERS WRECK
⊜ Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt Street Southbank
SEASON 2018 BROTHERS WRECK 8 - 23 JUN 2018 BY JADA ALBERTS Ruben is full of anger and dancing on the edge. His sister Adele has already lost one brother, and will not lose another. As Darwin' ..

Burlesque Saturday's | The Vault
⊜ 518 Flinders St Melbourne
Varietease - Vaudeville & Burlesque Varietease is the hottest show in town, including circus, cabaret, stand-up comedy & a smokin hot Burlesque performances. Presented in what was once an 1850 ..

Cage Match | Improv Comedy Show
⊜ Level 1 / 19 Meyers Place Melbourne CBD Melbourne
No holds barred, no beg your pardons - it's the wildest improvised fight Melbourne has to offer! The Improv Conspiracy presents - CAGE MATCH! Each week two teams go head-to-head at The Improv Consp ..

Cinderella | Pantomime
⊜ 5 Finch Street Malvern East
Next winter holidays you shall go to the ball as Wonderland Theatre presents the most magical pantomime of them all, Cinderella! We are delighted to bring this timeless and most loved fairy tale cl ..

Come From Away | A New Musical
⊜ 240 Exhibition Street Melbourne
WINNER! BEST MUSICAL ALL ACROSS NORTH AMERICA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE • MELBOURNE OPENS JULY 20 2019 • COMEDY THEATRE Because we come from everywhere we all come from away. COME FROM ..

Crazy Brave
⊜ LaMama Courthouse 349 Drummond Street Carlton
La Mama presents a A Branch Theatre production There is brave. There is very brave. And if you want to change the world, there is Crazy Brave. Alice rejects the Big Lie – the sterile dream of ..

Daniel Burt - A Trip Down Memory Laneway
⊜ The Butterfly Club Carson Place, off Little Collins St Melbourne Vic 3000 Melbourne
Melbourne is the love of Daniel's life. And, like any romance, he's obsessed with its history and spends too much time stalking people from its past. This show is the product of his unhealthy but pass ..

Danny and The Deep Blue Sea
⊜ Siteworks - 33 Saxon Street Brunswick
Danny and The Deep Blue Sea By John Patrick Shanley Directed and performed by Charlie Cousins and Laura Maitland A man and a woman - both battered, volatile outcasts - meet in a run-down bar i ..

David Baddiel - My Family: Not The Sitcom
⊜ Alex Theatre St Kilda 135 Fitzroy Street St Kilda
DAVID BADDIEL – MY FAMILY: NOT THE SITCOM 21 - 22 SEPTEMBER Presented by: Frontier Comedy by arrangement with Avalon Accomplished comedian, author, screenwriter and television presenter David B ..

Dead Air
⊜ The Bluestone Church, 8A Hyde Street Footscray
Dead Air is a chilling tale about the world where faith and science meet, as it sets about answering the question of Are we alone in the universe with terrifying consequences. Clay Carter is a shoc ..

Empty Bodies - Provocaré Festival
⊜ NICA National Circus Centre, 39-59 Green Street Prahran
This acclaimed production will be a highlight of the Provocaré Festival 2018, featuring six talented professional circus artists performing skills from contortion to tissu, tightwire and more. Emp ..

FESTEN
⊜ 192 Hotham St Elsternwick
In July, Play Dead Theatre will bring a truly unique experience to Melbourne audiences; A Site Specific theatre production of David Eldridge's award winning play FESTEN, held within the iconic Rippon ..

First Stage
⊜ Southbank Theatre - 140 Southbank Blvd Southbank
Presented in partnership with the Emerging Writers' Festival 28 June 2018 Four new works, four new playwrights. In this exciting new collaboration with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, see th ..

GENERATION JEANS
⊜ Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt Street Southbank
SPECIAL EVENTS 2018 GENERATION JEANS 9 - 11 AUG 2018 BY BELARUS FREE THEATRE Belarus Free Theatre is a theatre company in exile. Founders Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, are 'enemies of th ..

Gloria
⊜ Southbank Theatre - 140 Southbank Blvd Southbank
Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 16 June-21 July 2018 Southbank Theatre, The Sumner Editorial assistant Dean stumbles into work, hungover from last night’s mortifying party at Gloria’s ..

Grand Final Footy Show 2018
⊜ Melbourne
2018 Grand Final Footy Show Thursday 27 September Channel 9 | The Grand Final Footy Show, bigger than ever, will again be broadcast LIVE from Rod Laver Arena on Thursday September 27. Eddie M ..

Grand Theft Impro
⊜ The Courthouse Hotel, 86-90 Errol Street North Melbourne
The sell-out show of 2018 is back ! Victoria's internationally known, award-winning professional improvisation company brings you their dynamic 55 minute unscripted rollercoaster ride of "off the ..

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
⊜ Melbourne
Harry Potter play to open in Melbourne in 2019 Princess Theatre COMING SOON Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a ..

Hell Ship - The Journey of Ticonderoga
⊜ Clocktower Centre Moonee Ponds
Author, actor and comedian Michael Veitch tells the tale of one of the most tragic true stories of out maritime history. In 1852, the emigrant ship Ticonderoga struggled into Port Melbourne after ..

ICH NIBBER DIBBER
⊜ Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt Street Southbank
SEASON 2018 ICH NIBBER DIBBER 5 - 23 SEP 2018 BY POST Natalie Rose, Mish Grigor and Zoë Coombs Marr sure talk a lot of shit. First loves, bowel movements, birthing moans and the global financial ..

Julius Caesar
⊜ Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Rd Melbourne
Brutus is suspicious. Cassius is conspiring. Caesar's days are numbered. Loved by the people, Caesar's power is growing -which is dangerous if you live in a world driven by ego and idealism. Those ..

Jurassica
⊜ Clocktower Centre Moonee Ponds
Jurassica is a story about family, growing old and spending your life searching for home. Ralph and Sara migrated from Italy in the 1950s to their concrete front-yard house in suburban Moorabbin. ..

Justin Shoulder - Carrion
⊜ North Melbourne
Carrion Justin Shoulder Melding flesh, costume and a robo-primordial aesthetic, this stunning new solo performance by Justin Shoulder (V, The River Eats) introduces the figure of Carrion – a sh ..

Lamb (A New Play with Songs)
⊜ Red Stitch Actors Theatre rear 2 Chapel St St Kilda East
by Jane Bodie, music and lyrics by Mark Seymour World Premiere In association with Playwriting Australia 13 November - 13 December (Previews 13 - 20 November) Q&A Session following performan ..

Le Sacré: A Circus and Ballet Ensemble Collaboration
⊜ NICA National Circus Centre 39-59 Green Street Prahran
Le Sacré: A Circus and Ballet Ensemble Collaboration 14-23 June 2018 Co-Directed by Zebastian Hunter, Meredith Kitchen and Simon Dow In the first collaboration of its kind in Australian perfo ..

Lip Service
⊜ Southbank Theatre The Sumner Southbank
Strange Duck Productions Lip Service A play by John Misto 11-28 July 2018 Melbourne girl makes good! See the smash hit play about the rise of Melbourne cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein star ..

Lovesong
⊜ Red Stitch Actors Theatre rear 2 Chapel St St Kilda East
21 August - 23 September (Previews 21 - 24 August) Q&A Session following performance on Thursday 6 September Duration: TBA 'There's still so much I have to say. Maggie -' A love affair tol ..

Madiba The Musical
⊜ Melbourne
International critics have hailed it as ‘a story that touches our hearts', ‘magnificent', ‘breathtaking' and ‘fascinating'. The powerful and uplifting Madiba the Musical is a soul-stirring ..

Maestro Impro
⊜ David Williamson Theatre, 35 St John Street Prahran
It's Maestro season at Impro Melbourne, the show where individual players compete each week for the coveted title of Maestro. Their fate rests solely in the hands of the audience who vote througho ..

MAMMA MIA!
⊜ Melbourne
Over 60 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the story and the music that makes MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel-good musical. And now, in what will be a stunning new productio ..

Marie Antoinette
⊜ Northcote Town Hall, Studio 2 - 189 High St Northcote
Heartstring Theatre proudly present the Australian premiere season of Marie Antoinette By David Adjmi Directed by Rachel Baring I was born to be a queen. It wasn't my choosing, I was born into ..

Markiplier's You're Welcome Tour
⊜ Melbourne
Markiplier's You're Welcome Tour Features Popular YouTube Personalities for an Irreverent Evening of Improv, Sketches and Audience Challenges TEG DAINTY & Nice Events are excited to announce that ..

Melancholia
⊜ Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt Street Southbank
SEASON 2018 MELANCHOLIA 13 JUL - 12 AUG 2018 BY LARS VON TRIER On the night of her boisterous marriage-amid corsages, canapes and Clicquot-Justine quietly falls apart. The world will surely foll ..

Melbourne Cabaret Festival 2018
⊜ Prahran
Melbourne Cabaret Festival 19 June - 1 July 2018 www.melbournecabaret.com The Melbourne Cabaret Festival is one of Melbourne's major winter arts events. The ninth annual Melbourne Cabaret Fes ..

Melbourne Cabaret Festival | Opening Gala 2018
⊜ Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St Prahran
Experience highlights of multiple shows from across the festival in the one extravaganza, hosted by the one and only Dolly Diamond. Featuring: Alyce Platt - Someone's Daughter Max Riebl - Hard to ..

Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018
⊜ Melbourne
2018 MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL: 13 - 30 September The Melbourne Fringe Festival is Victoria's most vibrant independent arts showcase, developing, championing and celebrating the independent arts. ..

Menopause The Musical
⊜ Melbourne
20 - 25 November 2018 The Palms at Crown Inspired by a hot flush and a bottle of wine, Jeanie Linders created Menopause the Musical as a celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the midd ..

Nightfall
⊜ LaMama Courthouse 349 Drummond Street Carlton
A story in which something very, very naughty happens. Emily absolutely will not go to sleep. Not even if Mum says so. Or Dad. Or if Grandpa says so. Not while there’s a drip… Not while those ..

Nocturnal Fever: Women of Sin
⊜ The Butterfly club, 5 Carson Place Melbourne
Lady Fox loves to watch her burlesque bluesy and to sing her blues bawdy. Think of the buffet flats, cafes and bars of the 20s and 30s, picturing the biggest blues singers of the day and the list ..

Parenthesis
⊜ The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place (off little Collins St) Melbourne
Fairy tales aren't just for kids. Check out this refreshing new take on a Grimm Brothers classic about love, money, magic and karma! An encounter with a magical fish interrupts a couple's mundane l ..

PJ Masks LIVE!
⊜ Melbourne
PJ Masks LIVE! Saturday 13 October & Sunday 14 October Top-rated animated TV series, PJ Masks, will come to life at Margaret Court Arena in October 2018 in PJ Masks LIVE! Time to Be a Hero. Th ..

PLAYlist 2018
⊜ Red Stitch Actors Theatre rear 2 Chapel St St Kilda East
For One Night Only.. Saturday 15 December Join us on an intrepid, site-specific adventure! Traverse worlds from room to room where each writer's selected song comes to life as a play - that' ..

Point of No Return
⊜ Melbourne
Essence Productions presents the 2018 Victorian Tour of Point of No Return Written and directed by Alaine Beek Based on the fascinating true story of Australia's first boys' prison, Point of No ..

Polygraph
⊜ St Kilda
THEATRE WORKS AND OPTICNERVE PRESENT POLYGRAPH BY ROBERT LEPAGE & MARIE BRASSARD 17th JULY – 29th JULY In this era of Post-Truth Politics, does lying need to be disguised anymore? Is the ..

Prada's Priscillas - All Male Revue
⊜ Alex Theatre St Kilda 135 Fitzroy Street St Kilda
PRADA’S PRISCILLAS SAT 08 SEP 2018 Flanked by gorgeous men, lead singer Prada Clutch & her ‘girls’, take you on a journey from where it all began with Les Girls in the 60’s, across the A ..

Princes of the Night
⊜ Level 3 Crown Melbourne 8 Whiteman St Southbank
Live Saturday Night's @ Crown Melbourne Princes of the Night is a heart-stopping, ab-popping, full-length stage production with an outrageously good looking cast of professional dancers, singers an ..

Pygmalion - The Story of My Fair Lady
⊜ 188 Collins Street Melbourne
One flower girl. Two experts. Free lessons. Six months. Duchess required. Professor Higgins bets he can transform the life of a flower girl by helping her learn to speak proper English rather than ..

Revenge
⊜ 5 Carson Pl (off Lt Collins St) Melbourne
Sweet and spicy New South Wales cabaret performer, Irene Nicola takes on the patriarchy, politicians, late-stage capitalism and inequality in this in-your-face performance that has the entire audience ..

Rocky Horror Show
⊜ Melbourne
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show Presented by: Producers Howard Panter, John Frost and GWB Entertainment Ready to thrill you with its frothy fun and naughty moments, this is the boldest bash ..

School Of Rock
⊜ Melbourne
SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL COMES TO MELBOURNE! Based on the hit movie, this ass-kicking new musical follows dropout Dewey Finn, a failed rock star for ..

Secret Project
⊜ Red Stitch Actors Theatre rear 2 Chapel St St Kilda East
2 - 28 October (Previews 2 - 5 October) We're about to do something we've never done before.. We're still excavating. But what we can divulge is.. Don't go telling everyone. It's a SE ..

Shakespeare: Tragedies & Comedies
⊜ Melbourne Atehaneum, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Melbourne
Presented by Masters Of Choreography, Shakespeare: Tragedies & Comedies is sure to captivate theatre-goers this July, as they showcase this one night only all ages event on 14 July at the Athenaeum Th ..

Sleeping Beauty - A Knight Avenger's Tale
⊜ 240 Exhibition Street Melbourne
Melbourne's Winter School Holiday Panto Be the first to book for this fun-for-all-the-family fairy tale panto adventure, Sleeping Beauty - A Knight Avenger's Tale showing at Melbourne's Comedy The ..

Smells Like A Song | Impro Melbourne
⊜ The Courthouse Hotel, 86-90 Errol Street North Melbourne
Smells Like A Song sees the multi-talented Impro Melbourne players pulling an entire musical out of thin air. And as with any Impro Melbourne show audience participation is an integral part of the fun ..

Speaking in Tongues
⊜ PO Box 5167 Clayton
Speaking in Tongues 12 OCT - 27 OCT 2018 Written by / Andrew Bovell Directed by / Louise Woodward Two couples set out to betray their partners.. A lover returns from the past and a husban ..

Tequila Tease | Burlesque Show
⊜ Fitzroy
Kodiak Club, 272 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Tequila Tease is Melbourne's newest night of amazing burlesque and yummy beverages—brought to you by Little Blood and Platinum Honey. Tequila Tease ..

The 3 Musketeers
⊜ Bluestone Church Arts Space, 8A Hyde Street, Footscray Footscray
This new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel brings the classic characters to the stage in a fast-paced romp through 17th-century France – a rip-roaring, gender-bending, breakneck tale of passion ..

The Antipodes
⊜ Red Stitch Actors Theatre rear 2 Chapel St St Kilda East
10 July - 12 August (Previews 10 - 13 July) Q&A Session following performance on Thursday 26 July Duration: TBA 'The rest of the world might be going to hell, but stories are better than ever ..

The Big HOO-HAA
⊜ Melbourne
Every Friday night at 8pm - The Butterfly Club, Melbourne Fast, furious and funny, The Big HOO-HAA! is Melbourne's longest-running and best-loved weekly impro comedy show. Starring a who's who ..

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