fortyfivedownstairs hosts more than 80 exhibitions, performances and events every year. We have worked with many of Australia’s finest arts practitioners and have hosted countless memorable and noteworthy shows. Use the search function below to access information about our previous events.
Our online archive spans late 2013 – current, however the organisation has been running since 2002. For information on any events between 2002 and 2013 please contact our staff directly.
Past Performances in 2026
Past Performances in 2025
Past Performances in 2024
Past Performances in 2023
Past Performances in 2022
Past Performances in 2021
Past Performances in 2020
Past Performances in 2019
Past Performances in 2018
Past Performances in 2017
Past Performances in 2016
Past Performances in 2015
15 December A night of Poetry for Barry Jones
2 – 13 December The One by Vicky Jones
11 – 29 November Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
29 October – 8 November Someone Like Thomas Banks
17 September – 4 October COMPANY
1 – 13 September Master Class Dir Daniel Lammin
17 – 31 August PICNIC
10 – 16 August Conversations with the Gods about Their Deaths and Other Matters
29 July – 9 August The Long Red Road
8 – 26 July CUCKOO
1 – 5 July METASYSTEMS
10 – 28 June RETRO FUTURISMUS
29 May – 8 June Curlew River
5 – 22 March Young & Jackson by Don Reid
4 – 15 February Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
21 – 25 January JIM MORRISON: KALEIDOSCOPE
21 January – 1 February Adolescent
Past Performances in 2014
16 – 21 December Yana Alana presents Between the Cracks
4 – 14 December The Collected Works of Victor Bergman
6 – 30 November Dreamers
29 October – 1 November Silhouettes, Inside Outside
23 October The Barry Jones Poetry Night
13 October Elizabeth I: The Last Dance
3 – 12 October The Sound of Waves
17 – 28 September Parade
4 – 14 September Waking Up Dead
20 – 28 August Master Class
30 July – 10 August The Seafarer
15 – 27 July My Life in the Nude
2 – 13 July Mein Kampf
18 – 21 June The Three of Us
28 May – 15 June Martin McDonagh’s The Leenane Trilogy: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West
18 – 23 May The Consul
6 – 11 May Hex
10 – 13 April KaBooM: Stories From Distant Frontlines
11 – 23 March The Long Pigs
27 February And When He Falls
5 – 16 February Evolution, Revolution and the Mail Order Bride
15 – 26 February Double Bill-Sweet Dreams: Songs by Annie Lennox, In Vogue: Songs by Madonna