Theatre & musicals
See big names and blockbuster productions in historic theatres, and discover local talent with new work on tiny stages hidden in laneways.
Melbourne plays & musicals
24 Jul 2012
This is the story of Thom and Alethea: two neighbours in an apartment block, trying desperately to keep their lives from falling apart. But the wall...
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24 May - 12 Aug 2012
You gotta hang on until at least Tomorrow to see the hit production of Annie, everyone's favourite orphan, light up the stage at the Regent Theatre.
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13 - 14 July 2012
Katherine Thomson's Diving for Pearls dramatically records the moment Australia joined the vast world of globalised economics in the 1980s and the...
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21 Apr - 26 May 2012
This is the world premiere of Australia Day. 'Jonathan Biggins has ways of making you laugh. Lots of them' - Time Out'A master of making the...
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3 - 19 May 2012
Philoctetes is a wounded man. Betrayed and abandoned for ten years on a barren island of rocks and crows. But what happens when a marginalised man...
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16 - 19 May 2012
J. B. Priestley's play "An Inspectpr Calls" has become a theatre classic, and is still frequently performed all around the world. It is a murder...
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23 May - 9 Jun 2012
Introducing 'On the Production of Monsters' by Robert Reid. Ben is a true Melbourne hipster, plugged into the city and giving off 'cool' like some...
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4 Jun 2012, 2 Jul 2012, 6 Aug 2012, 3 Sep 2012
Theatre Slam is a spectacular night of performance where you witness some of Melbourne's finest actors slam down their talent with one, two and three...
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6 Jun - 21 Jul 2012
For Mrs Stewart, a Coronial Inquiry seems too little, too late. In 1975, her son Tony Stewart was a young sound recordist for an Australian news...
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8 Jun 2012
A brilliant improvised comedy about WA's Pinjarra Massacre. Created and performed by Nyoongar and Wadjella (whitefella) actors, Bindjareb Pinjarra...
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2 - 17 August 2012
Helicopterby Angela Betzien'The Betzien-Cáceres collaboration represents much of the best new theatre that has emerged . . . ' - The Courier Mail...
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3 - 4 August 2012
If you loved Codgers, then don't miss this brand new production. Five marvellous women find themselves back in their infant school classroom plying...
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11 Aug - 15 Sep 2012
Ace reporter Hildy Johnson has had enough of the sleaze of the Chicago newspaper game. At midnight, she's catching the train east where she'll marry...
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Regional plays & musicals
23 - 27 October 2012
The hilariously inventive Suitcase Royale are finally coming to the border, bringing you a masterfully-mad tale from the dusty-plains of the...
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26 - 30 June 2012
"I think about my grandparents walking along this road - and now I am here. I'm in Malta. I'm looking at absolutely everything and trying to...
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29 May - 2 Jun 2012
This is the incredible true story of a boy who conspired to murder himself. . . Based on extraordinary real events in Manchester in 2003, this...
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Venues
From heritage-listed art deco masterpieces to tiny black stages hidden in laneways, Victoria's theatres hold blockbuster shows and new discoveries.
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