Announcement
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2026
Fringe is 3 massive weeks of comedy, cabaret, theatre and more!
Melbourne Fringe Festival
29th September 2026 - 8th October 2026
Melbourne Fringe lives and breathes the independent arts in one of Australia's most culturally engaged cities.
2026 marks 44 years since the birth of Melbourne Fringe, and this Festival we're looking back at where we've been, what we've done, and who we've become.
Tickets are on sale now. Browse the full program
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10 Seasons of Deadly Fringe
Back for a landmark 10th Season, Deadly Fringe showcases bold and moving First Nations art through powerful new commissions.
Fringe Common Rooms
Located in Melbourne's iconic Trades Hall, Common Rooms is Melbourne Fringe's year-round home for independent artists, for workers and for people who like to party. It's a meeting place housing a licensed performance space and a salon, for one-off and regular events, including live music, performance, comedy, cabaret, dance parties, spoken word, workshops and rehearsals.
Fringe Common Rooms
Signature Events
Come party into the night with a line-up packed full of the best queer BIPOC acts and DJs that the Naarm scene has to offer.
Kitty Obsidian
Curated and hosted by multi-award winning, Indigenous bu..
The world has spent hundreds of years researching and questioning who Shakespeare was, but few asked the far more interesting question; who was his wife?
Second Best Bed
Left the "second-best bed"..
Johann is launching a poetry book. Johann is a very bad poet.
Prepare to be simultaneously charmed and berated by Tirau's resident self proclaimed artist, incompetent anarchist, and lover of grape..
Join Coach Mon on a quest to help a lost star return to the night sky!
Featuring singalong songs performed live, gentle lighting and sensory play, little ones will move, groove and dream.
Coac..
An electro-punk concert, a play, a clown show, and a basement puppet nightmare all rolled into one from award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys (S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger).
SLUGS
Join u..
Melbourne cabaret indie stalwart Geraldine Quinn ('Spicks & Specks', 'Ground Up', 'The Project') finally turns her seasoned hand to music theatre with the world debut of her original Ozploitation horr..
❊ Key Information ❊
When
Tuesday 29 September 2026 - Sunday 18 October 2026
Where
Official Links
❊ Also See.. ❊
➼ Club Fringe : Club Blaq
➼ Coach Mon's Baby Wonderland
➼ Creepy Boys: SLUGS
➼ Fringe Festival Hub @ Trades Hall
➼ Geraldine Quinn: Campervan - An Ozploitation Horror Musical
➼ Lithuanian Club
➼ Melbourne Cultural Festivals
➼ Ode To A Grape
➼ Pilgrim Bar | Federation Wharf
➼ Second Best Bed
➼ Victorian Trades Hall
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