My Melbourne Arts

Are there many of us who have maintained a friendship for over twenty years? Are there any of us who have held onto a best friend for over t...

Love is a fabulous thing. Or is it? In cabaret Somebody To Love , Tory Kendrick takes a look at various dating moments that many of us have ...

In Love Letters , human connection and love is explored through a lifelong relationship between two people. When Lisa's family decide to...

What do you do when you are a half-woman, half-spider searching for love while fighting your lust for blood? Write a cabaret about it. In Bl...

The art of writing letters is very much a rarity these days. We might send each other lengthy emails or texts, but putting a pen to paper an...

I remember the first time I watched kerosene and being completely engrossed by Izabella Yena and the ferocity and tende...

After critically acclaimed seasons of kerosene and SIRENS , independent theatre company The Voice In My Hands is giving Melbourne a second ...

It's late into the night when Jesse arrives at Lucas' home. They have known each other for years, so it's only natural they woul...

To many, the name Mary Coustas is an instant reminder of the Australian icon that is Effie Stephanidis, the character Coustas portrayed on t...

Darlinghurst Theatre Company's Once has had three sold-out seasons over three years, and it is now Melbourne's turn to discover why...

Ben Stevenson's mother used to call him a ratbag. When she suddenly died, Stevenson had to find some sense of meaning to her death. In R...

Between February 2020 to August 2022, Joshua Ladgrove was the full-time carer for his 97 year-old Ukrainian grandmother. While death can be ...

If ever there was a show whose title delivered exactly what it said it would, it's Stew Walker's Silly Love Songs . Armed with a gui...

Returning for its first show in 2023, Forest Collective present Fountain , an orchestral arrangement of pop singer-songwriter Max Lawrence’s...

I learnt a few years ago that the apparent inspiration for Miss Havisham from Great Expectations was an Australian woman buried at Sydney...

Eden is a young gay man in a rural town. He spends most of his time having random hook-ups with older men he meets online. A beachside enco...

Variations or Exit Music takes a deep look at one person's three great loves and their struggle to see through the heartbreak and belie...

When Brett's aunt Maggie suddenly passes, he and his partner Drew, decide to sell their city dwellings and move to the quaint small town...

Dorr-e Dari: A Poetic Crash Course in the Language of Love brings three artists sharing stories of Persian poetry and the multiple forms of...

It's been a number of years since I've seen an opera by Lyric Opera and there is great anticipation as to not only what story they c...