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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.
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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"..
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..
Sketch comedians Mario Hannah, Taylor Griffiths and Holly Bohmer bring a delightfully twisted new work to the 2026 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Nosebleeds
Mario Hannah, Taylor Griffiths and Holly B..
Ordinary People. Extraordinary Lives. And also, there's Monsters.
The Year There Were No Monsters
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2026
Tonight, a group of bizarre and eccentric "Everyday people" g..
When: Wednesday 7th October 2026 to Sunday 18th October 2026
You're cordially invited to the 269th birthday of history's most scandalous time-travelling songbird
Adore Händel is celebrating their 269th birthday. You mustn't miss the festivities!
Adore Ha..
Prahran Square turns up the heat with CIRCUS FIRE Spectacular.
CIRCUS FIRE Spectacular
Chapel Street and Melbourne Fringe present CIRCUS FIRE Spectacular, an internationally awarded circus show li..
Multiple award winning comedian Andy Balloch is back with a hilarious corporate onboarding for the End of Days.
Welcome to Hell
The award nominated show RETURNS!!
Chief officer of recruitment, ..
From the Wild West of Dalmatia to the high-stakes kitchens of Sydney, Kauboj is a riotous and heartfelt musical journey through the life of Jakov - a chef-slash-cowboy - whose adventures are as unpred..
Welcome to Murder Village, where people shop till they drop.. dead.
Murder in the Market
Melbourne's award-winning improvised whodunnit returns with a brand-new show in a historic venue.
Stag..
A funny feminist anti-fairytale.
If you've come here looking for happily ever after, you've come to the wrong place. Fairytales turned Roisin into a damsel in distress. This is her revenge.
A ra..
It's about nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. We promise.
An electro-punk concert, a play, a clown show, and a basement puppet nightmare all rolled into one fro..
Yes. It's her. Zoe.
The multi-award winning actress and beloved cultural icon. Here for a bougie evening amongst you, her adoring public, so that you may bask in the reflected light of her divine,..
Award-winning clown Hannah Camilleri brings her loose, playful, absurd comedy show to Fringe.
Dinner Hannah Show
Award-winning clown Hannah Camilleri returns to Fringe with a playful reprise of he..
There are 3,428 billionaires in the world. There doesn't have to be.GUILLOTINE! or, A Modest Proposal
A new show from Anna Piper Scott and Margot Morales.
There are 3,428 billionaires in the world..
Walk Melbourne's darker history through the stories of women, crime and justice this October during the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2026.
In Her Footsteps
In Her Footsteps: Women, Crime & Justice in..
Bitch Boxer is Charlie Josephine's hit play, directed by Hannah Smith and starring Shardae Santos.
This fast-paced and physical one-woman show is about rage, love, grief, and fighting to take up s..
Your favourite movies translated badly.
Each night, we take a different classic film script, run it through an online translator a dozen times, and then read the results live on stage in character!..
Wellington performance company Ruff as Gutz brings its award-winning clown demolition of Frank Herbert's Dune to Victoria, complete with audience participation, staged violence and a homemade sandworm..
When: Saturday 10th October 2026 to Sunday 11th October 2026
A Storytelling, Poetry and Music show by Jasmine Babbar
Witty, fragile story about the chaos of being human, heartbreak, music and love.
Ghar: Location Not Found
Asking a question - What if h..
After years spent in the trenches of children's birthday parties, these sock-puppeteering harlots demanded a kinder audience...
Hotsy-Totsy @ Melbourne Fringe
Lifelong friends since 2023 and longt..
An award-winning theatre rom-com crossed with an action blockbuster!
Waterloo
Bron Batten wrestles with love and war in an explosive interrogation of her ill-fated affair with a conservative milit..
A hilarious meltdown about invisible labour and losing your shit in a really organised way
The Manager Is Me
Blood type: CBF.
Sex life: On Afterpay.
The Situation: Three kids, one husband, m..
Do you seek ChatGPT's approval for everyday decisions?
Worrying about a friend dating Claude 4?
Suspecting Grok of angling for your job?
Can't wait for the singularity to come - or for AI ..
❊ Key Information ❊
When
Tuesday 29 September 2026 - Sunday 18 October 2026
Where
Official Links
❊ Also See.. ❊
➼ Adore Handel's Birthday Party
➼ Andy Balloc: Welcome to Hell
➼ Ava and Peggie: Hotsy-Totsy
➼ Bitch Boxer
➼ Bron Batten: Waterloo
➼ CIRCUS FIRE Spectacular | FREE EVENT
➼ Club Fringe : Club Blaq
➼ Coach Mon's Baby Wonderland
➼ Country House: An Improvised Comedy of Manners
➼ Creepy Boys: SLUGS
➼ Dayna Fallon: The Manager Is Me
➼ Fringe Festival Hub @ Trades Hall
➼ Geraldine Quinn: Campervan - An Ozploitation Horror Musical
➼ GUILLOTINE! or, A Modest Proposal
➼ Hannah Camilleri: Dinner Hannah Show
➼ In Her Footsteps: Women, Crime & Justice in Melbourne
➼ Jasmine Babbar: Ghar (HOME) - Location not found
➼ Kauboj | Balkan-Australian Cabaret
➼ Lithuanian Club
➼ Lost in Translation
➼ Mario Hannah, Taylor Griffiths and Holly Bohmer: Nosebleeds
➼ Melbourne Cultural Festivals
➼ Melbourne Makers' Market
➼ Murder in the Market: A Murder Village Improvised Whodunnit
➼ Oliver Pol: Featherbrained
➼ Pilgrim Bar | Federation Wharf
➼ Roisin McAlinden - Fairytale: Ending
➼ Ruff as Gutz: Dune But Worse
➼ Second Best Bed
➼ Shane Adamczak: The Year There Were No Monsters
➼ Slugs
➼ Teddy Bears' Picnic - Chat with sentient toys about life and death after AI
➼ Victorian Trades Hall
➼ Zoe's Killer Instinct
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