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  • TAXITHI

    The untold stories of women who migrated from Greece to Australia in the 1950s and 60s.

  • Anno Zombie by Bridgette Burton

    A play reading of Melbourne's first Zom-Com. The zombie apocalypse has finally come and it’s a lot more boring than anyone predicted.

  • BROKEN by Mary Anne Butler

    Lab Kelpie

    The Victorian premiere of Mary Anne Butler’s poetic, evocative play. Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama, the Northern Territory Literary Award for Best Script and the Victorian Prize for Literature.

  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

    Peta Hanrahan

    Following a sold-out premiere season, Sentient Theatre's 'A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf' returns, shining a light on our history with astounding relevance to contemporary society.

  • The Ghetto Cabaret

    fortyfivedownstairs

    A powerful new cabaret featuring Yiddish songs written in the Jewish ghettos of WWII.

  • The Rapture Chapter II: Art vs Extinction

    Finucane & Smith

    Moira Finucane, one of the world’s greatest performance chameleons, magic realist geniuses and apocalyptic rock goddesses, brings home The Rapture Chapter II in her mind-stunning party on the edge of the abyss.

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    Green Room Award winners Jillian Murray and Laurence Strangio re-join forces to present Joan Didion’s remarkable memoir

  • Punk Rock by Simon Stephens

    Patalog Theatre Co.

    From British power-house playwright, Simon Stephens, Punk Rock is a violent and urgent examination of contemporary adolescence.

  • As One

    Gertrude Opera

    One of the major works of American opera in the 21st century has its Australian premiere as part of the 2020 Midsumma Festival.

  • The New Impromptu Quartet

    A performance exploring a world of styles and influences from jazz to Latin, funk, and soul.

  • Shake ‘n’ Blake

    Steve Gome

    Shake ‘n’ Blake - The Sonnets of Innocence and Experience. Blending the Good Works of Williams Shakespeare and Blake into a Lesson in Love in all its aspects.

  • The Curtain

    fortyfivedownstairs

    Daniel Keene returns to fortyfivedownstairs with The Curtain, written with his sharp ear for poetry and play.

  • Burn This by Lanford Wilson

    16th Street Actors Studio

    Two unlikely strangers are brought together by a mysterious death, their connection sparks a chemistry too explosive to ignore

  • The Anniversary

    Clare Bartholomew & Daniel Tobias

    Multi award-winning creators of Die Roten Punkte, Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias are back with a brand new murderously funny physical farce.

  • RUNT

    Dee & Cornelius & Wilks

    A play about the runts of the world: the lesser, the unwanted, the weak, those without clout, the insignificant; all the unders.

  • Playreading: June by Patrick McCarthy

    Fabricated Rooms

    Following 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.

  • The Trauma Project by Elizabeth Walley

    Elizabeth Walley

    An immersive composition for theatre crafted by Elizabeth Walley in response to her eyewitness experience of a homicide in her suburban street.

  • RUNT

    Dee & Cornelius & Wilks

    RUNT to return to our theatre after a sold-out premiere season

  • Still by Jen Silverman

    Jen Silverman

    Written 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.

  • King Lear Online

    Melbourne Shakespeare Company

    A moving contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy

  • NOTHING by Janne Teller

    Adapted by Fleur Murphy

    A riveting adaptation of Janne Teller’s award-winning novel, now considered a modern classic.

  • Myra in Space

    Bridgette Burton

    A reading of the new play 'Myra in Space' by Bridgette Burton, directed by Alice Bishop and featuring Kelly Nash.

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    15 Minutes from Anywhere

    A reading of the new play 'post' by Jane Miller, directed by Beng Oh and featuring Keith Brockett, Steve Gome, Kelly Nash, Marissa O’Reilly, Sonya Suares and Glenn van Oosterom.

  • Just a Boy, Standing in Front of a Girl

    15 Minutes from Anywhere

    Director Beng Oh and writer Jane Miller continue their acclaimed collaboration ('True Love Travels on a Gravel Road' and 'Cuckoo' at fortyfivedownstairs) with an adaptation of Medea for our times.