Featuring over 40 hit songs, Elvis: A Musical Revolution celebrates the extraordinary life of award winning, cultural icon, Elvis Presley. From his childhood in Mississippi, to his triumphant ‘68 Comeback Special, and ascent to become ‘The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’, this brand-new high-energy production explores the pivotal moments in Elvis’s life and music career …
MAMMA MIA! The Musical is back in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre this October! Featuring 22 of ABBA’s greatest hits, this mega hit is full of fun, laughter and good times. Critics call this smash hit musical a crowd-pleasing extravaganza and a must see! MAMMA MIA! tells the tale of Sophie, a young bride-to-be who, …
Building on the landmark success of Because The Night (2021), Malthouse Theatre ambitiously realises Australia’s next chapter of large-scale immersive theatre. Hour of the Wolf introduces you to Hope Hill, a town that is yours to freely explore on the longest night of the year. Interweaving stories unravel the disturbing disappearances occurring between the hours …
The hauntingly beautiful musical, Dogfight, by Pasek and Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land) and Peter Duchan. Dogfight garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical. Based on the 1991 Warner Brothers film, Dogfight offers a romantic and heartbreaking journey that lingers long after the performance. It’s November …
Here I Belong, a funny, moving, warm but never sentimental journey through sixty years of village life. The entire action takes place in the village hall. Beginning with the Queen’s coronation in 1953 (much excitement about the TV being lent for the occasion) where we meet newcomer Elsie. We follow Elsie’s life in the village, …
Clue: On Stage 10-25 Nov Eltham Little Theatre The classic board game is brought to life in Clue: On Stage! Six guests are invited to a dinner party thrown by an anonymous host. They are given aliases--Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet. Though discouraged from revealing personal information, …
The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable. It's Germany, 1891, and adults hold all the cards. Headstrong Melchior and naive Wendla stumble into each others' arms, passionate and curious, while anxious Moritz struggles to …
Of the Land on Which We Meet. What does it mean to be where we are? Opening up the acknowledgement of Country and taking a closer look within it, Na Djinang circus searches for a way to address the possible lack of connection contemporary Australians have with the spirituality of the land. The performance follows …
Based on the novel and the hit-movie, Legally Blonde: the Musical follows the story of the relentlessly perky Elle Woods, a fashion-savvy, UCLA sorority girl who finds her life turned upside down when she is dumped by her boyfriend Warner. In an effort to prove to Warner that she is ‘serious’ enough and not just …
Edward Albee’s classic slugfest Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, at least on the surface, is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age, a vicious dissection of a marriage straining under the cumulative rage and disappointments of many years. When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about …
Prisoner at the World’s End is a Kafkaesque imagining arising out of the grim and grotesque circumstances of Julian Assange’s imprisonment. The play explores Assange’s predicament through the eyes of three very different women who work in a volunteer café at His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh. Over the course of their day, as they work in …
Ladies in Black at the Heidelberg Theatre. Recent High School graduate Lisa Miles has an ambition to attend university, against her father’s wishes, but meanwhile takes a holiday job at Goodes, the most prestigious department store in 1950s Sydney. Here a world of new possibilities awaits her as she makes friends with the ladies who …
Between the fraught messiness of youth, self-image pressures and loneliness of high school, two girls scramble to find their way safely to shore. THE PLAY Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Dry Land is a play about female friendship, resilience and what happens in …
Between the fraught messiness of youth, self-image pressures and loneliness of high school, two girls scramble to find their way safely to shore. THE PLAY Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Dry Land is a play about female friendship, resilience and what happens in …
One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers, but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920’s silent movie …
Meet Chase. She’s living her best life. Just a shame there’s no one left to see it. Compelling, repelling, and funny. Joined by her zany crew of besties and YouTube subscribers for company, at the party to end all parties. The party to end the world! That's if any of them actually even exist… Equally …
Written and directed by Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is a post-traumatic performance thesis, winning the 2021 Patrick White Playwriting Award. Starring Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, and Maurial Spearim, accompanied by a live improvisational score by smallsound, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is an absurd …
Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. As the game continues, Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Fearful …
Maria Fassnauer, known as 'Mariedl, the Tyrolean Giantess' was born 1879 to an extremely poor farming family in Tyrol, Austria, and died there 38 years later. But those simple dates bookend an extraordinary life. Her fame spread from the small village out into the wider world. Inevitably people came calling, including a man who was …
The Tony and Grammy Award winning musical Kinky Boots returns to Melbourne, with hit music by Cyndi Lauper. Filled with glitter, glam and a whole lot of sole, Kinky Boots is a reminder to celebrate your life triumphantly. Kinky Boots has inspired audiences across the globe, showing everyone we can change the world when we …
It’s murder most foul. The crime of the century. It’s Agatha Christie, improvised! Step into the world of a classic English murder mystery. Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit is the critically-acclaimed improvised comedy experience that brings the world of Christie to life, complete with mysterious characters, devilish red herrings, clever clues, and an amateur sleuth …
