My Melbourne Arts

It's been 16 years since Homophonic! had its first performance. 16 years of championing and supporting LGBTIQ+ classical art music. So ...

Final Queen is a drag circus horror comedy one-woman spectacle, which already sounds like a fever dream, but in the hands of creator/perfor...

Milo Hartill is black, fat and faggy. Although these not the exact words she would use. But that’s the privilege of existing across three op...

I remember being in New York in 2018 and taking my seat to see S. Asher Gelman's Afterglow . I remember being intrigued by a story I...

In Robert the Octopus , Sadie has a crush on a co-worker but thanks to the modern world, their interactions are solely online and via Zoom m...

In The Placeholder , Ben MacEllen delivers a heartfelt kitchen-sink drama set in a regional town, exploring friendship, identity, and the re...

Australian Open centres on Felix, a happily partnered, newly turned 31-year-old gay man navigating an open relationship with Lucas, an “el...

What happens when the boy who doesn’t grow up… grows up? When the twink is no longer a twink? In Peter Pan: A Twinkle in Time , Dean Robinso...

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...

Andrea James Lui has been pole dancing for over a decade. In The Pole Shebang , they take the audience behind the glitz and glamour of the c...

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...

Turn off the lights and brace yourself .  PORN , directed by Keelan Armstrong, takes audiences on a provocative, queer-led journey into one ...

Armed with a hot pink Holden Commodore, circus queen Grace Lightning, the last surviving member of a cross-continental drag convoy, is scree...

When Kimberley Twiner takes the stage as a director, audiences know to expect the unexpected. Her latest project for Midsumma Festival,  Rob...

Milo Hartill’s show Black, Fat and Fa**y is a bold, joyful exploration of cabaret, storytelling, and lived experience of being a Black, fat,...

After a sold-out run at the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, She Slayed: A Drag Murder Mystery returns for a Midsumma Festival ...

Afterglow has travelled a long way since its off-Broadway debut, gathering a devoted following as it moved from New York to London and beyo...

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

Presented by an all-queer cast, Cirque X's Tender looks at what it means to be tender through circus, acrobatics, and musical and dance...

For their latest offering, Forest Collective takes its audience into the labyrinthian myth of Theseus and Ariadne and their battle with the ...