My Melbourne Arts

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

 When I was invited to review Not Soooo Fresh, I immediately said yes, having been an avid purchaser of the So Fresh compilations over the y...

In Yellow Fever , Kelly Lim Harris turns the racism, fetishisation and sexism she has come up against as an East Asian woman into a sharp, f...

There’s a sense of mischief to Crush the Bug , with performers Sean Burnett Dugdale-Martin and Daniel Nodder setting the tone before the sho...

Underwater adventures make a big splash in Jellyfish , a physical theatre show by Cherese Sonkkila that brings an unusual sea creature to li...

They’re the birthday-party entertainers who decided it was time for a better gig. Created by Ava O’Brien and Peggie Barnes, Hotsy-Totsy bri...

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...

When Phillip learns his mother has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has five months left to live, he decides to move back home. Phi...

In Please Help Me! , Aimee Marich draws on her own history of mental health, suicidal thoughts and attempts, and psychiatric care to explore...

I have previously seen Holly Bohmer and Taylor Griffiths perform in their solo shows at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2025. While differe...

In Fairy Smut , Rama Nicholas takes audiences into the world of romantasy - a literary subgenre of romance and fantasy - where witches, drag...

In 1998, five friends went out to the Gully to make a horror movie. In a case of art imitating life, only four returned, under questionable ...

What happens when there are no monsters left to fight? The Year There Were No Monsters  takes that question in a wonderfully strange directi...

Kissing Booth , performed by Booth the Clown, is an interactive comedy show built around a simple premise: Booth is here to make us laugh an...

Oh, Freidah. Heard before she’s seen. Rustling somewhere in the darkness. Feet skittering. Running. A strange gurgle cuts through the silenc...

Life is busy. Really busy. We are constantly rushing from one thing to the next, trying to fit more into our days than there is ever enough ...

In Fu@k! I Killed The Director , Cherry and John (Alana Louise and Jason Schwab) are moments away from taking to the stage for Romeo & J...

  Your twenties are supposed to be some of the most defining years of your life. You go to university, get jobs, move out, make new friends ...

B eing late to your own stand-up show is a comedian's nightmare, but for Blake Everett it is the premise of an entire show. Tight Five ...