Almost three decades since its Australian premiere in Victoria, Disney’s latest production of Beauty and the Beast will arrive at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne this month. Fresh from its record-breaking Brisbane season where the show has become the highest selling season of any show at QPAC in a decade and the third highest selling of all time behind Phantom of the Opera (1996) and The Lion King (2014) – over half a million Australians in Sydney and Brisbane have already been our guest – and Melbourne is next! The enchanting and timeless tale of Belle and her Beast has been brought to life in a reimagined production boasting all the spectacle…
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Memoir of a Snail -the highly anticipated new feature from Melbourne-born Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot will officially open the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) when the beloved cultural event returns this August. The film arrives 20 years after his 2004 Academy Award Win for Harry Trumpet and will be screened at the MIFF Opening Gala. The hand-crafted stop-motion wonder creatures voices from Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana, Tony Armstrong, Nick Cave and Jacki Weaver. “After eight long years, producer Liz Kearney and I are a bit exhausted but thrilled to be asked to be the Opening Night…
Take a delicious journey from farm to fork as the Secret World of Food arrives at Melbourne Museum just in time for the King’s Birthday long weekend. Kids can dive into an interactive food adventure designed to ignite their curiosity about where food comes from. Presented by VicHealth and Museums Victoria, this immersive experience lets children collect stamps in their food passport as they explore each stage of the food cycle. Start by picking fresh produce, load it onto a truck, sell it at the market, cook up tasty dishes in the kitchen, and help the worms by composting leftovers.…
Following two sold-out seasons in Sydney, Murder for Two the whodunit comedy musical from Hayes Theatre Co. will present at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio from 15 – 25 August 2024.Blending mystery, mayhem and music this witty parody of the classic murder mystery sees Maverick Newman and TikTok sensation Gabbi Bolt play 13 outrageous roles (and the piano). Bolt stars as Officer Marcus Moscowicz, a small-town policeman with dreams of making it to detective. One fateful night, shots ring out at the surprise birthday party of Great American Novelist Arthur Whitney, and the writer is fatally shot. With the nearest detective an hour away, Marcus jumps at the chance to prove…
Experience the original bohemian love story that inspired Rent and Moulin Rouge when Puccini’s beloved La Bohème graces venues across Victoria in July and August, before a tour that continues with performances across New South Wales, and Tasmania in 2024 – kicking off at Dandenong’s Drum Theatre. When Mimi meets Rodolfo, it’s love at first touch. They head out to bustling Café Momus, where the feisty Musetta and Marcello rekindle their relationship. For our bohemians, everything is possible and the future can’t come quickly enough. Rodolfo and his friends are determined to make their mark on the world and experience everything it has to offer –…
Anatomy Lessons by Michele Beevors is a breathtaking exhibition opening at the National Wool Museum in Geelong on 7 June. Featuring meticulously-sculpted, life size skeletons, Anatomy Lessons seeks to make visitors question their place in this web of the living and the dead. From the towering giraffe stretching 4.4 metres in height, to the army of over 50 delicately rendered frogs, this exhibition is enthralling in scale. Each sculpture is an accurate portrayal of a real animal and is carefully measured, drawn, and moulded from steel, wire, and foam. The frame is then intricately knitted over to create these thought-provoking pieces.…
An all-Australian star cast will bring the five-time Tony Award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher to life for the very first time in a reimagined Australian production. The Broadway smash hit is being toured nationally in 2024 and 2025 and will come to Melbourne from 8 November at the Playhouse at the Arts Centre. Peter and the Starcatcher is the untold story of Neverland. Before Neverland there was an Island. Before Captain Hook, a pirate. Before Wendy, her mother Molly. Before Peter, a nameless boy. The Australian production will feature a star-studded ensemble cast including Otis Dhanji from blockbuster Aquaman and Netflix hit The Unlisted as Boy / Peter; one…
The Royal Botanic Gardens is set to host a series of live music events when the luscious lawns of the Observatory Precinct are transformed into a unique outdoor concert space. The new summer concert series, Live At The Gardens, is being presented by the team behind A Day On The Green. Live At The Gardens will launch in November 2024 over two huge weekends – with the organisers promising the artists will be announced soon. Then there will be another series of gigs in March 2025 – with plans for Live At The Gardens to become an ongoing event. With…
Award-winning comedian and writer Sarah Millican has announced she’ll be bringing her new show on tour in Australia in 2025. This will include dates at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall and Costa Hall in Geelong in March. When Sarah Millican was a child, she wouldn’t say boo to a goose. Quiet at school, not many friends, no boobs til’ she was 16. Now? NOW she is loud, with good friends, a cracking rack and goose booing all over the shop. Her brand-new stand-up show Late Bloomer explores how one became the other. Plus, lots of stuff about dinners and lady gardens. Come along, laugh at her,…
Monash multimedia design students have animated poetry from one of Ukraine’s leading writers and musicians Serhiy Zhadan, as part of a new and immersive exhibition opening at Monash University on 4 June, As part of the exhibition, Australian writer and musician Nick Cave provides the reading of the world-first translation of the poem. The exhibition, Hoping Against Hope, was developed by Monash University Library from their world-class Ada Booth Slavic Collection, and explores the relationship between resistance, resilience and hope in Ukraine. The exhibition takes visitors through more than 500 years of Ukrainian print culture, set against vibrant Ukrainian-inspired designs, animations and…
Chapel Street’s Lucky Coq is turning 18 and to celebrate will sling 18c pizzas all day on Saturday 22 June. Since opening in 2006, Lucky Coq has been one of Chapel Street’s most perennially popular venues, famed for its “cheap eats and good vibes” and is throwing a party to celebrate this golden moment. The Golden Coq party will kick off from 2pm on Saturday 22 June, with the kitchen open and serving up 18c pizzas all day and night. All pizzas will be on offer for just 18c. And that’s 18 cents for a whole pizza, not per slice.…
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will play four concerts in Australia as part of his first-ever solo tour – two each in Sydney and Melbourne. He last performed in Australia with Radiohead back in 2012. He’ll be performing at two of the country’s most iconic venues: the Sydney Opera House and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. “I will be alone on stage trying a new kind of solo show thing playing versions of songs from my recent and not so recent past,” Yorke announced on social media. On the “Everything” tour Yorke will perform work from across his career – with…