The Anniversary
Burn This by Lanford Wilson
Shostakovich and Schumann
Solicitude
Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts
Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts
BOOK TICKETS HERE DOWNLOAD PROGRAM HERE Tickets now on sale for Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts 3pm Sunday 11 October The October birthday of one of Australia’s most remarkable men, Barry Jones AC, has become an annual opportunity…
HERE Online Exhibition
We're very pleased to announce HERE, the first exhibition in our Fragments online series, open now! Click here to view the exhibition. HERE brings together 25 accomplished Victorian artists, including Judy Holding, Chris Orr, Lisa Sewards, Marisa Mu, Gavin Brown, Naomi Bishop, Tom Gerrard, Mark Chu and more. The online…
Thank you to our friends for your generosity in a difficult world
Two tales of performers at fortyfivedownstairs 1: Max Gillies In 2017, Max came to us with a proposal to perform in our theatre. Eventually we whittled the wishlist down to one of the greatest 20th century classics, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s…
Please join us in our Drive to Survive
Hello to friends of fortyfivedownstairs, written from the bunker! Thank you to all those who have donated to Drive to Survive. Actually, it’s not quite a bunker in a corner of the theatre, it’s a very unbusinesslike corner of the…
Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance
Gods and Demons
Shepherd on the Rock
The New Impromptu Quartet
A Night of Songs and Scenes for Bushfire Relief
The Age review of Punk Rock
★★★★ Cameron Woodhead Thursday 12 December 2020 Simon Stephens’ study of adolescence takes us into a Manchester grammar school, where seven students wait for their final exams. We get a fly-on-the-wall portrayal of teenagers in their natural habitat – a…
Punk Rock by Simon Stephens
The Year of Magical Thinking
Three of a Kind
The Rapture Chapter II: Art vs Extinction
FLY – a chamber opera
The Age review of The Ghetto Cabaret
Cameron Woodhead August 7, 2019 — 2.11pm ★★★★ A cabaret set amid the horror and deprivation of Jewish ghettoes in World War II? You’d have to be crazy. Totally meshugah. Yet Galit Klas has created one of the most…
The Ghetto Cabaret
ABR review of A Room of One’s Own
Wednesday, 24 July 2019 Lisa Gorton ★★★★ In this intelligent and unusual play, director Peta Hanrahan arranges Virginia Woolf’s great essay A Room of One’s Own into an hour-long play for four voices. Curiously, perhaps, it works so well as…
BROKEN by Mary Anne Butler
Romantic Piano Masterpieces
The Rapture
Tango – Supay Trio
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Emerging Artist Award 2016
Finissage to A Dingo Fence and Mallee Roots
The closing of A Dingo Fence and Mallee Roots: Victorian Farming on the Fringe was a great success last Saturday. Kristin Deimer's artist talk and accompanying performance by Helen Davey made a fabulous 'Finissage' which is apparently all the rage…
Whiteley's Incredible Blue
'Dickins' distinctive, poetic script is rendered truly memorable by Pigot's nuanced, chameleon-like performance.' Kate Herbert - four stars in the Herald Sun read review here. What lies inside the imaginations of an artist and addict? The capricious genius of Brett…