David Williamson’s The Removalists is still as provocative and relevant as it was at its debut. When The Removalists premiered at Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre in 1971 it put a wrecking ball through the walls of genteel Australian theatre. Profane, honest and arresting in its depiction of the animal side of humanity, its most surprising …
Bring your monster out to play! A Slightly Isolated Dog triumphantly returns to Melbourne with their original take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella. Raucous, irreverent and delightfully absurd, Jekyll & Hyde uses the mayhem of theatre, music and comedy to celebrate the darkness within us all. Presented by Nicholas Clark Management & A Slightly Isolated …
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare is the hilarious blend of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely sh!t-faced actor. What could possibly go right? With a genuinely inebriated cast member each night, no two shows are ever the same in this raucous, riotous, rampage through one of Shakespeare's most loved plays - A Midsummer Night's Dream. Warning, …
It’s Agatha Christie, improvised! After sell-out runs in 2024 in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane, the award-winning festival favourite Murder Village plays at Arts Centre Melbourne for the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Immerse yourself in the cozy world of a 1950s Agatha Christie-style novel as Melbourne’s funniest improvisers craft eccentric characters and perplexing mysteries …
Natalie Bassingthwaighte stars in the award-winning Shirley Valentine! Experience the heartwarming, hilarious, and utterly inspiring story of Shirley Valentine, brought to life by Australian stage and screen star Natalie Bassingthwaighte. Written by Willy Russell and directed by Lee Lewis, this timeless West End and Broadway comedy will take you on a journey of self-discovery, laughter, …
A divorcee with a young child to care for, Ruth works in the kind of nightclubs where there’s more than just a drink on offer. The girls work hard, play hard and dream of a movie-star life. Then she meets the wealthy, womanising David, a racing driver with whom she becomes obsessed. Fame comes — …
A romantic adventure begins at a bustling London train station where 42-year-old American, Georgie Burns, kisses the neck of a much older Irish man, Alex Priest, a butcher. This electric encounter thrusts two perfect strangers into a fascinating and unlikely relationship, part friendship, part love-affair.
The Comeuppance by American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will get its Australian debut, following its acclaimed world premiere at Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre last year. Directed by the award-winning Gary Abrahams (Iphigenia In Splott, Red Stitch; Yentl, Arts Centre Melbourne; Admissions, Melbourne Theatre Company), this masterful new work centres on a group of friends who gather on …
A family bound by an unthinkable crime. A past that keeps repeating, a lesson still unlearned. Gordan Graham's play, The Boys, is a powerful and unsettling exploration of family and gendered violence, examining its ripple effects on the women left in its wake. Originally inspired by the events surrounding the Anita Cobby murder, this fictionalised …
Agatha Christie’s breathtaking masterpiece, And Then There Were None is coming to Australia in 2025. From the producers of the hugely successful Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes a brand-new production of the best-selling crime novel of all time. Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion on an island off the English coast. When a …
