My Melbourne Arts

There is something timeless about Fiddler on the Roof . Set in a small Jewish village in early 20th-century Russia, it explores the pull bet...

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...

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 ...

Being told you’d be great in Miss Saigon might come across as a compliment, but for Kelly Lim Harris, it has happened enough times to inspi...

In Our Seventh String , six friends and former housemates reunite at their Melbourne sharehouse after seven years apart. Over the course of ...

Bring It On: The Musical carries the legacy of one of the most beloved teen comedies of the early 2000s. The 2000 film, starring Kirsten Dun...

Based on the 2007 film of the same name, the musical Waitress follows Jenna, a small-town waitress and talented pie maker trapped in an unh...

Robot Song is an emotionally driven theatrical work that weaves live music, inventive design, and impressive robotics to explore childhoo...

Just because you’re gay doesn’t mean you can’t find love. Or so we’re told at the beginning of one of the longest show titles in recent memo...

Saturday Night Fever follows Tony Manero, a young man from Brooklyn trying to escape the grind of his working-class life through disco, a...

In  I’m Only Dating These Men Because My Uncle Bequeathed Me Money and I Need to Get Married by the End of the Year  (now that's a mouth...

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...

Don’t we all love an enforced work function? Having to spend even more time with the people you already spend most of your life with? For th...

Fresh from a musical about group assignments, Josh Connell and Steph Lee are turning their attention to the soul-sucking grind of retail wo...

Ordinary Days has long been regarded as one of those small-scale musicals that carries a surprisingly large emotional weight, and Clovelly ...

Melbourne has turned the volume up to eleven with In The Heights , a vibrant burst of music, movement, and pure heart that spills from the s...

Kimberly Akimbo: A Musical might seem like your typical coming-of-age musical, but it quickly proves to be something stranger, darker, and s...

Here You Come Again is a jukebox musical that weaves Dolly Parton’s celebrated country tunes into the story of Kevin, a man stuck in lockdow...

Legally Blonde the Musical , based on the iconic 2001 film, has won acclaim and awards worldwide for its witty book, catchy score, and the e...

Beetlejuice the Musical has landed in Melbourne with a blaze of black-and-white stripes, undead antics, and high-octane madness. Adapted fr...