My Melbourne Arts

There’s something exciting about a production that combines cabaret, burlesque and circus, with dazzling physical feats, risqué humour, elab...

Taking my seat at Degustation , I couldn’t help but feel like I was about to experience The Menu - albeit with considerably more acrobatics...

There’s an art to preparing a good cup of tea, but Katy Burrows has other ideas. In Stirred Up , their debut solo show at Melbourne Fringe, ...

They’re the Bert and Ernie of the circus world. Meet Ched and Charles, thick as thieves and the very best of friends. Created by NICA gradua...

In Behind the Veil , NICA’s second-year students present a world where productivity is paramount and happiness and self-fulfilment can only ...

It's been just over a year since Bernie Deiter captivated Melbourne audiences with Club Kabarett , and while several acts are the same, ...

Samora Squid has been a sideshow freak artist for over 25 years, and it is now, at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, ...

For 25 years, Samora Squid has been twisting, bending, and testing the limits of the human body in sideshows and circus acts around the worl...

Going up the escalators to the entrance of Piper’s Playhouse is the beginning of an exhilarating and entertaining night in a Parisian cabare...

Final Queen is a drag circus horror comedy one-woman spectacle, which already sounds like a fever dream, but in the hands of creator/perfor...

Circa return to Melbourne with Duck Pond , a reimagining that fuses two timeless tales, Swan Lake and The Ugly Duckling . In the former, a ...

For twelve years now, I’ve been publishing my favourite theatre of the year. It started as a simple best-of list and slowly became my ritual...

Armed with a hot pink Holden Commodore, circus queen Grace Lightning, the last surviving member of a cross-continental drag convoy, is scree...

Queen Machine opens with Anna Lumb on a podium, performing a lively, high-energy hula hoop routine. She’s carefree, confident, and clearly ...

Cake - Late Bite serves up an hour of gleeful anarchy and creative indulgence, brimming with pizzazz and flair. It’s loud, unapologetic and...

Presented by Nightingale Performing Arts Australia, Stories That Must Be Heard brings refugee stories to the forefront and gives a voice to ...

The circus show Proteus follows a diverse group of characters living together in a strange city, capturing the blend of public spaces and p...

If 2017's Humans  explored the concept of what it means to be human, then Humans 2.0 smashes straight through it. This new show from Ci...

Bernie Dieter has taken over North Melbourne's Meat Market with her spectacularly electric Club Kabarett. It's an evening to forge...

Presented by an all-queer cast, Cirque X's Tender looks at what it means to be tender through circus, acrobatics, and musical and dance...