Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts 2021
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us live online for an afternoon of poetry and music celebrating Barry Jones' 89th birthday
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Kavisha Mazzella Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaA moving online concert with ARIA Award-winner Kavisha Mazella filled with storytelling and music.
Zoe Knighton/Pia Johnson Bach Project Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTwo iconic Melbourne artists join forces for a unique and magical collaboration.
Voyage Online
fortyfivedownstairs online 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaA new Australian musical written by Helen Begley.
Rathdowne Quartet & Tamara Smolyar Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch Rathdowne Quartet with Tamara Smolyar at home as they perform one of the greatest chamber works ever written.
Collide Online: Unity
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch Collide at home, sharing with you their blend of colour, fervour, and spirit with works of Mozart, Glinka, Milhaud
Solstice Trio Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch Solstice Trio at home. A program of New York-based composers at the boundaries of contemporary classical, jazz and electronic music.
Coady Green & Christopher Smith Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch the recording of a rare virtuosic event - Liszt's complete Hungarian Rhapsodies, arranged for piano four hands.
Duo Eclettico Online: Solicitude
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWatch the recording of Duo Eclettico's 'Solstice' concert, filmed during a live Zoom broadcast in January 2021.
King Lear Online
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA moving contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy
Fantastique! The Life and Loves of Hector Berlioz
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
Created using journal entries, letters and articles from Berlioz’s life, combined with a selection of his songs, and transcriptions of his orchestral works
Still by Jen Silverman
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWritten by one of the hottest young playwrights from New York City, Jen Silverman’s award-winning play will make you laugh, cry and reflect, often all at the same time.
RUNT | Return Season
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaRUNT to return to our theatre after a sold-out premiere season
Voyage
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaIn the midst of convict ships arriving each week from Britain, a different cargo leaves for Australia. On board are 287 immigrant women enticed by promises of a better life.
Michael Griffiths: Greatest Hits
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaHelpmann Award winner and fortyfivedownstairs repeat offender Michael Griffiths returns with his greatest hits.
Don’t Make Me Play Piano Man
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaAfter his acclaimed and hilarious debut cabaret ‘I Sing Songs’, join Steven Kramer on a journey through all the great piano hits across the ages.
Electric Loneliness
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA strange and mysterious seaside cabaret told through vaudeville, puppetry, fairy tale, and 80s synth-inspired song.
From Don Giovanni to Peking Opera
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
Virtuoso pianist Yiyun Gu plays brilliant program of music from the stage by Liszt, Goossens and young female Chinese composer Wang A Mao
Zoe Knighton/Pia Johnson Bach Project
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
Two iconic Melbourne artists join forces for a unique and magical collaboration
Kavisha Mazzella with Irine Vela
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
Kavisha Mazzella returns briefly to Melbourne for an intimate concert at fortyfivedownstairs with guitarist Irine Vela
Old Friends | New Beginnings
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaLuke Severn and Elyane Laussade will make their triumphant return to performing as a duo with a concert of some of their favourite works for cello and piano.
The Trauma Project by Elizabeth Walley
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaAn immersive composition for theatre crafted by Elizabeth Walley in response to her eyewitness experience of a homicide in her suburban street.
Franz Liszt: The Complete Hungarian Rhapsodies for Piano Four Hands
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaThe first complete Australian performance of this dazzlingly virtuosic set of pieces, known for their fiendish technical demands
Trouble in a Monochromatic Town
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA lush and gritty program inspired by a palette of shifting drones, acid house, electronics, Dada and silk scarves
Playreading: Underneath Ms Archer
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA reading of a new play by Louise Siversen and Peter Houghton.
Playreading: June by Patrick McCarthy
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaFollowing their critically acclaimed productions Grief and the Lullaby (2015) and The Sky Is Well Designed (2017), Fabricated Rooms present a work-in-progress reading of their third project, June.
RUNT
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA play about the runts of the world: the lesser, the unwanted, the weak, those without clout, the insignificant; all the unders.
The Anniversary
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaMulti award-winning creators of Die Roten Punkte, Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias are back with a brand new murderously funny physical farce.
Burn This by Lanford Wilson
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaTwo unlikely strangers are brought together by a mysterious death, their connection sparks a chemistry too explosive to ignore
Shostakovich and Schumann
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaKyla Matsuura-Miller, Madeleine Jevons, Molly Collier O’Boyle & Harry Ward are joined by virtuoso pianist Tamara Smolyar for one of Shostakovich’s best known chamber works, the G minor Piano Quintet.
Unity
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaCollide will share with you their blend of colour, fervour, and spirit, with works of Mozart, Glinka, Milhaud
Solicitude
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaWhat a way to welcome live performance back to the venue! A stunning program, performed by Coady Green and Justin Kenealy, featuring new commissions, Australian premieres and a sneak preview of a special new work.
Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us to celebrate the 88th birthday one of Australia’s most remarkable men, Barry Jones AC in an online performance curated and hosted by board member Julian Burnside AO.
John & Jen
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA truly original musical set against the background of a changing world - a story about connections, commitments and the healing of the human heart.
Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaGary Abrahams directs Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prizewinning drama of 1966 featuring a stellar cast.