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NewsTony- and Olivier-Winning Hit 'The Play That Goes Wrong' Is Making a Comeback on Australia's Stages in 2025
What happens when The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society tries to stage a murder-mystery? Chaos — and this onstage comedy.
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NewsDo You Hear the People Sing?: The 'Les Misérables' Arena Spectacular Is Coming to Australia in 2025
The music of the people, plus the songs of angry men, will echo thanks to a stacked cast and a 65-plus-piece orchestra.
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News'Cats' Is Returning to the Stage Down Under to Celebrate Its 40th Australian Anniversary
The movie mightn't have hit the mark, but you can see why this feline-fancying musical has been a huge theatre hit when it makes its Aussie stage comeback.
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News'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale' Has Added More Cities to Its Precious 2025 Australian Tour
This hit Middle-earth musical is not only taking the hobbits to Sydney, but to Melbourne and Perth as well.
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NewsSydney Theatre Company's Sarah Snook-Starring 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Is Heading to Broadway
After wowing London's West End, the 'Succession' actor will make her Broadway debut playing 26 roles in the one-performer Aussie stage sensation.
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NewsBroadway Sensation 'Hadestown' Is Bringing Its Tony-Winning Musical Take on Greek Myth to Melbourne in 2025
See the story of Orpheus and Eurydice get a new spin featuring jazz and American folk tunes in this Grammy-winning production.
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NewsNine 2024 Emmy-Winning TV Shows That You Should Watch Immediately
Your new must-watch list of Emmy-winners includes 'Baby Reindeer' and its has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed tale, the history-making 'Shōgun' and, yes, 'The Bear'.
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NewsThe Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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NewsNine New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Austin Butler's latest brooding role, serial-killer chiller 'Longlegs' and the animated antics of 'Inside Out 2'.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching Rashida Jones navigate a sci-fi mystery in Japan, Nicolas Cage face a post-apocalyptic future and a gripping Australian romance-scam thriller.
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NewsThe 15 Best Straight-to-Streaming Movies of 2024 So Far
From 2024's first half, you need to be catching an Oscar-winning documentary, Glen Powell as a fake assassin and plenty of horror shocks from your couch.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in July That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with 'Furiosa', the latest gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda and a hypnotic vision of an AI-dominated future.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsThe 15 Best Returning TV Shows of 2024 So Far
These are the beloved small-screen favourites to say "yes chef!" to, sleuth along with and giggle with — and get catchy songs stuck in your head from, too.
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NewsThe 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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NewsThe 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024 So Far
From gloriously surreal comedies and unforgettable true tales to stunning remakes and savvy sci-fi mysteries, 2024 has been filled with new small-screen highlights.
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NewsSplash-Hit Céline Dion-Fuelled Musical-Comedy 'Titanique' Is Making Its Australian Debut in Sydney This Month
The laughs will go on at this off-Broadway award-winner, which is told through Dion's songs — and is finally making its maiden voyage Down Under.
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NewsLive 'Dungeons & Dragons' Show 'The Twenty-Sided Tavern' Is Rolling Into Australia for Its Down Under Premiere
You won't just watch this stage version of the tabletop roleplaying game — you play along, choosing the characters and helping shape the story.
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NewsThe Stage Musical Version of Festive Big-Screen Favourite 'Elf' Is Finally Making Its Australian Premiere
The film-to-theatre Broadway hit is heading Down Under, debuting in Sydney, so that you can catch the Christmas classic onstage.
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The Musical Version of 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Taking the Hobbits to Australian Stages in 2025
Middle-earth gets melodic at 'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale', which is making its Aussie debut in Sydney.
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NewsThis Year's Melbourne Fringe Festival Sees Food and Art Combine in Hundreds of Boundary-Pushing Performances
Whoever said you shouldn't play with your food is a fool, because these local and international artists are showing us just how fun it can be.
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News'Parks and Recreation' and 'The Afterparty' Star Ben Schwartz Is Bringing His Live Improv Show to Australia
He's also the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog — and he's locked in a two-city trip Down Under in 2025.
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ShopCounterweight Vinyl & Espresso
32 Chambers Street, Footscray
Browse secondhand vinyl — the specialty is classic dance and bass — or sit down for a coffee and pastry.
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News'Guys and Dolls' Is the Next Iconic Musical That Opera Australia Is Bringing to Sydney Harbour's Floating Stage
The Tony-winning Broadway sensation is Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour's pick for 2025, running for a month from late March.
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News'RuPaul's Drag Race' Icon Bianca Del Rio Is Returning Down Under in 2025 with Her 'Dead Inside' Tour
Hurricane Bianca is back, this time breaking out her devilish snark and timing on an eight-city tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsGet Ready for Murderous Musical Thrills: 'Sweeney Todd' Is Playing Melbourne in September 2024
Victorian Opera is staging Steven Sondheim's Tony-winning Broadway and West End smash — and maybe don't eat meat pies before heading along.
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NewsDavid Sedaris Is Bringing His Latest Tour to Australia and New Zealand to Delight NPR Obsessives in 2025
Two years on from his last round of 'An Evening with David Sedaris' shows Down Under, the NPR humorist and bestselling author is returning.
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NewsHow Bangarra Dance Theatre Is Looking Beyond Australia with Its First Mainstage Cross-Cultural Collaboration 'Horizon'
“I really want to make sure that you, as the audience, will leave the theatre with a bit of the Torres Strait with you.”
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NewsThe First-Ever Australian Season of 'Dear Evan Hansen' Will Tour the Country After Its Sydney Debut
Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Tony-winning musical has locked in dates in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.
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EventEtta's Summer Seafood Towers
Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Etta, Brunswick East
This incredible wine bar and restaurant is serving decadent seafood towers for just $75 per person every Friday and Saturday afternoon.
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EventPortsea Hotel's Summer Music Series
Multiple single dates
Portsea Hotel, Portsea
The Presets, Jake Webb, Darley and DJ Levi will be playing waterfront gigs this summer at Portsea Hotel.
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EventLong Live Longnecks at BANG
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
BANG at The StandardX, Fitzroy
You can get two-for-one Melbourne Bitter Longnecks and $1 homemade dumplings during this happy hour deal.
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EventMoon Dog's Fizzer BYO Cup Day
Sun, 1 Dec, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
BYO drinking vessel, get it filled with free Moon Dog Fizzer — and celebrate the first day of summer in style.
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EventALWAYS LIVE — Yerambooee
Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
Federation Square, Melbourne
A free communal celebration of First Nations legend and song.
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EventALWAYS LIVE — Garage Band
Sat, 7 Dec - Sun, 8 Dec 2024
Federation Square, Melbourne
A free event shining the spotlight on Victoria's talented young musicians.
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EventBridge Road Brewers' Spring Tasting in the City
Fri, 29 Nov - Sat, 30 Nov 2024
Bridge Road Brewers Brunswick, Brunswick East
This afternoon of tasting session let's you explore a lesser-known Victorian wine region (Beechworth) without leaving Melbourne.
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EventTerasu Japanese Dining Pop-Up at Portsea Hotel
Fri, 3 Jan - Sun, 19 Jan 2025
Portsea Hotel, Portsea
Chef Yukio Ozeki is serving up a a luxe six-course Japanese feed at Mornington Peninsula's beloved Portsea Hotel for only a few weeks in January.
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EventHome Truth
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
NGV International, Melbourne
A house-within-a-house labyrinth has popped up outside the NGV International to get everyone thinking about small-scale architecture.
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EventSpanish BBQ Fiesta on Pinchy's Balcony
Sun, 1 Dec - Sun, 22 Dec 2024
Pinchy's, Melbourne
Hit up this CBD restaurant on Sunday arvos in December for unlimited food and drinks on its sun-soaked terrace.
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NewsMelbourne's 'Beauty and the Beast' Lottery Is Slinging Tickets to the Hit Disney Musical for Just $24
Via TodayTix, you can go in the running to nab 24 tickets for $24 each to every one of the stage production's Melbourne shows.
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NewsNow Open: North Melbourne's VIVA Is Pairing Raunchy Cabaret Shows with Stageside Dinners
Think of VIVA as a modern (and IRL) version of Cher and Christina Aguilera's cabaret club in 'Burlesque'.
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NewsDolly Parton Has Announced a Broadway Musical Based on Her Life So Start Begging for It to Please Come Down Under
Set to debut in New York in 2026, this new stage show will step through the icon's story and career — and Parton has written new songs for it.
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Tony- and Grammy-Winning Musical 'Hadestown' Will Make Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025
The hit production, which hit Broadway in 2019, gives the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice a new spin featuring jazz and American folk tunes.
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News'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' Is Making Its Australian Debut at Brisbane Festival 2024
Playing an Aussie-exclusive season, this stage production features more than 200 original Gaultier couture pieces and celebrates the designer's 50-year career.
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NewsCalling All 'Black Books' Obsessives: Bill Bailey Is Touring Australia in October and November 2024
The 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' star is rarely far from stages Down Under, returning after last getting behind the mic in 2022.
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NewsShake & Stir Theatre Co's Stage Production of 'Frankenstein' Is Coming Alive in Melbourne and Sydney in 2024
Shake & Stir Theatre Co has already taken on 'Dracula', 'Jane Eyre' and 'A Christmas Carol' — now it's Mary Shelley's masterpiece's turn.
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News'In the Heights' Is the Next Tony-Winning Hit Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda That's Coming to Australia
Sydney Opera House will turn into Washington Heights to host a six-week season of the Broadway smash in July and August.
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NewsSydney Theatre Company's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Might Be Making the Stage-to-Screen Leap
Cate Blanchett's production company Dirty Films has picked up the film rights for the one-performer Aussie stage smash.
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NewsTony-Winning Smash-Hit Musical 'The Book of Mormon' Is Coming Back to Australia in 2025
Sydney will host the return of this crass magnum opus from 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone from July 2025.
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Sarah Snook Just Won Best Actress at the Olivier Awards for Sydney Theatre Company's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
Shiv Roy isn't the only part that the 'Succession' star is winning awards for — here, she plays 26.
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NewsThe $45 'Wicked' Ticket Lottery Has Hit Melbourne So You Can See the Magical Musical Without Defying Your Budget
You can go off to see the witches of Oz for cheap thanks to TodayTix, which has brought its 'Wicked' ticket lottery to Melbourne.
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News'Six the Musical' Has Locked in Dates for the Hit Show's Return 2024–25 Tour of Australia's East Coast
This empowering pop-scored remix of royal history will return to Melbourne and Sydney this year, then hit Brisbane to start 2025.
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News'Hamilton' Is Only Playing Sydney on Its Return to Australia in 2024 So Don't Throw Away Your Shot
The Broadway smash will retrace American history in the Harbour City again from July, then leave the country.
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News'Love Stories' Is the Next Trent Dalton Book That's Coming to Life on the Stage at Brisbane Festival
Before 'Boy Swallows Universe' was turned into a Netflix series, it was adapted as a play first in Dalton's home town of Brisbane.
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GuideThe Ten Best Places to Find Live Comedy in Melbourne All Year Round
Head to these Melbourne pubs, fringe theatres and dedicated comedy clubs just about any day of the week for a night full of deep belly laughs.
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NewsHere's Everyone Who'll Get You Giggling at Melbourne International Comedy Festival's 600-Plus 2024 Shows
'Starstruck' talent Rose Matafeo, 'Fire Island' and 'Loot' star Joel Kim Booster, drunken Shakespeare, and Australian favourites Hannah Gadsby and Sam Simmons are all on this year's lineup.
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NewsCirque du Soleil Is Bringing Its Spectacular Mexican-Inspired Production 'LUZIA' to Australia
This year also marks the circus troupe's 25th anniversary in Australia, with its latest production the tenth big-top show to visit the country.
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NewsStage Hit 'Counting and Cracking' Will Enjoy Its Long-Awaited Melbourne Premiere at RISING 2024
Featuring 19 cast members from six countries playing 50 characters, the award-winning Sri Lankan-Australian saga from S Shakthidharan is finally hitting the Victorian capital.
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NewsChoreographer Benjamin Millepied's Stunning 'Romeo & Juliet' Ballet Is Coming to Australia for the First Time
Combining dance, theatre and cinema, the suite of shows give Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers a contemporary spin.
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News'Lady Dynamite' and 'Arrested Development' Star Maria Bamford Is Bringing Her New Stand-Up Tour to Australia in 2024
The comedy icon and 'Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere!' author is making her first trip to Australia in more than five years.
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News'Sister Act' Is the Next Smash-Hit Broadway Musical That's Set to Finally Make Its Australian Premiere
Inspired by the 90s films of the same name, the five-time Tony-nominee will make its Aussie debut in Sydney in August 2024, then head to Melbourne from November.
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News'Wicked' Is Starting Its Melbourne Season with $20 Tickets for a One-Night-Only Preview Performance
This Broadway smash about the Land of Oz's witches isn't just defying gravity — it's defying usual theatre ticket prices.
