My Melbourne Arts

Jens Radda’s connection to church is more than a starting point for cabaret show  Mass Hysteria . Having grown up attending a Seventh-day Ad...

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 ...

Once confined to internet message boards and YouTube narration channels, creepypasta has steadily entered the mainstream, most recently thro...

Life often feels like a balancing act between the burdens we carry and the faces we present to the world. Personal anxieties, responsibiliti...

Florentina Holzinger's A Year Without Summer takes its title from the extraordinary events of 1816, when the eruption of Mount Tambora i...

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...

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

Eight hours before stepping into Opera for the Dead | 祭歌 , I had been at a funeral. It was a death that arrives without warning, even after ...

It’s been roughly 20 years since I last watched Terminator 2 . And it's been a decade since I last stepped into a Hear My Eyes presentat...

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...

In Magical Prescriptions , Jessie Ngaio Smith becomes a doctor of a different kind, offering ten-minute, one-on-one appointments where she ...

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...

Cherese Sonkkila loves fruit. And not just as part of her daily five portions of fruit and veggies - she really, truly loves fruit. In Fruit...

There’s something exhilarating and nauseating about being alive right now - information flying at us from all directions, our brains struggl...

First Trimester is not your average theatre show. It is part performance, part experiment, part tender interrogation of what it means to bu...

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

Not many Melburnians would have known a2 Company this time last year, but after taking home the Best in Theatre award at the 2024 Melbourne...

The performance space for Crisis Actor would be pitch black if not for dozens of phones lighting up the room. A cardinal sin in theatre eti...

Chamber Made have long been shaking up Melbourne’s performing arts scene, constantly challenging and surprising audiences with what live art...

Perth-based theatre company The Last Great Hunt returned to Melbourne with Night Night , a visually arresting, emotionally resonant piece th...