My Melbourne Arts

Darkness Is Coming is a magic show with its roots in horror. Drawing on the French Grand Guignol style of graphic, theatrical horror, award...

Zombies have never been especially interested in following the rules, and neither has improvisation. Put the two together and you have a the...

You just can't keep a good Deadite down. It's been 45 years since The Evil Dead was unleashed on cinema goers. In that time, we'...

Blood, chainsaws, and demonic mayhem have never sounded so infectious. Evil Dead: The Musical turns the cult horror franchise into a high-en...

The Haunting of Spook Mansion (by ghosts) opens with a cheeky premise, a sceptical professor, a believer, and a cash reward big enough to c...

Devised by Sarah Iman, Steph Lee, Raven Rogers-Wright, Jackie van Lierop, Anita Mei La Terra, and Louisa Cusumano, Slay is a sharp-witted, ...

When Maud's aunt passes away suddenly, she is surprised to learn that the house in which she lived in has been passed on to her. As Maud...

Where do men go to become better men? Camping of course. In circus show A Scary Thing Happened By The CAMPFIRE , two mates go bush not knowi...

A seachange is said to be an effective way to reassess what you value most in life and to gain new perspectives. But what about a riverchang...

When a young couple move into a houseboat in Tasmania's Huon River to raise their baby, the last thing they expect is to be terrorised b...

When Lauren and Ben visit their friends Sam and Jenny for dinner, the last thing they are expecting is to be witnesses t...

We’ve all heard things that go bump in the night, and the majority of the time it is simply our imagination. But what happens when those b...

It’s time for some fun fun fun at Fox’s Family Fun Park. There are plenty of animals to see and exciting rides to take in this small, cha...

A nother year o f some unf orgettable t he atre and live performances comes to an end, and what a year it has been , manag ing to get t...

And so ends my favourite time of the year : the Melbourne International F ringe Festival. I 'm constantly a mazed by how many qualit y ...

What happens when those who are put into positions of care - like nurses and nannies - end up being the people who should fear the most? Pr...

Ghoulish, grotesque, unsettling and suspenseful. These are some of the words used in my review of The Laudanum Project's 2014 Melbourne ...

No one goes to a comedy show expecting to shit themselves, but in Go To Hell! , the team from Watson intend to make us do just that. Adam Mc...

In the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival , Watson asked us Who's Afraid of The Dark? This festival , well frankly they don...

Cabaret doesn't get more macabre and twisted than in Suburban Gothic . There is definitely "some spooky shit going down" in...