My Melbourne Arts

How much is that weird little object you’ve been holding onto for years actually worth? The Valuer invites audiences to find out, bringing t...

It's 2am and you're wide awake, the world is sleeping but you are staring at the ceiling, trapped inside your own head. Do you read ...

In 2025, Merriam-Webster named "AI slop" as its word of the year, describing the flood of low-quality content created by AI for cl...

I love mushrooms. If there’s a meal with mushrooms in it, chances are I’m ordering it - and demolishing it. But I’ve never really thought ab...

A Kingdom of Mushrooms, Five Senses, Infinite Wonder and You. That's the name of the show, and in this immersive participatory experienc...

Another year gone, another year of extraordinary theatre created and performed in Melbourne. I only managed to get to 111 shows (the shame!)...

A crying room is a small, soundproof room in theatres and churches where a person can visit if they are feeling emotional but want to contin...

Oliver Ayres has packed a lot into twenty-minutes with I’m Ready To Talk Now , but this well-considered immersive show for one person at a t...

The Honeytrap excel in creating experiences that leaves its audience confronting their own biases or blindspots. I still vividly recall its ...

A person has about 400 emotional experiences per day stemming from 27 basic emotions. In Access , performance artist Hamish Annan invites hi...

We've been told that success comes when you put in the hard work. But how much hard work is necessary? And what happens when you keep pu...

Goodness. What a devilish delight that Grim is. Ellen Grimshaw plays Grim, an alien who gets pushed off their Mum's spaceship on their ...

Leah Shelton's grandmother spent three months at Heathcote Hospital mental institution simply because she wanted to leave her husband. S...

Acclaimed performer Leah Shelton returns to Melbourne Fringe with her third solo show, BATSHIT, in which she explores the history of female...

There's a new thrill-seeking pass-time that's been happening worldwide over the last few years. Causing tingles to run through the b...

In Exit Strategies , Mish Grigor explores not only various ways of leaving but also the thinking and process behind this, such as when to le...

Presented by Binge Culture , Ancient Shrines and Half Truths is an outdoor audio experience that has participants listening to a narrator a...

Get ready for a sweet sweet seduction 
with Gold Satino 's new site-specific immersive show, ap tly titled, Seduction . Presented as p...

Freya McGrath is letting dance take over her mind, body and soul during the Melbourne Fringe Festival. For 24 hours, McGrath will dance non...

Admittedly, I did walk in to Terror Australis not knowing what to expect at all, and I am so glad I did because the delights it unearthed...