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A publicity image for 'Troy', one of seven productions in Malthouse Theatre's 2025 season. A multi-racial cast of seven, including men in skirts and women in tunics reminiscent of ancient Greece, link hands as they struggle across a dramatically lit and smoky battlefield.
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Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season

Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…

One Fell Swoop Circus has welcomed the news that the Perry Street, Collingwood training facility will remain a home for circus and physical theatre artists. Two circus artists stand on a blue stage, holding overlapping white ropes. A third circus artist balances on the ropes where they are intertwined.
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Circus training centre to open up for sector

One Fell Swoop and Na Djinang among those circus companies looking forward to the appointment of a new site operator.

Stuart Maunder, Artistic Director of Victorian Opera.
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Sondheim’s Follies and Boojum! revival feature in Victorian Opera 2025 season

Artistic Director Stuart Maunder discusses his 2025 season, which includes chamber opera, a lavish musical and a new opera for…

A young First Nations boy with red and white striped face paint across his brow and a green brimmed hat, and a ragged denim sleeveless jacket roars at the camera. The Future and Other Fictions. the Love Punks, Sutu
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From Björk to Blade Runner 2049: revisioning the future at ACMI

The Future & Other Fictions is a major new exhibition focused on screen culture’s ability to imagine a better world.

Two leading women opera singers (Deborah Humble and Helena Dix) in black with a chorus on singers in the background. Puccini.
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Opera review: Puccini Gala: Suor Angelica, Athenaeum Theatre

A one-act opera and gala concert that showcases the best of Melbourne Opera talent.

Seven dancers in 'Dredge' kneel around a water hole structure. Their hands are raised. The lighting is an eerie blue.
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Dance review: Dredge, Theatre Works

Dance theatre that tracks the beginning of life and follows it to modernity.

Two grey haired women sit behind a long table with their hands clasped in front of them and a red backdrop behind. On the left Susie Dee has a messy bun, glasses and a light brown scarf. On the right Patricia Cornelius wears a black jumper.
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The 60-somethings ruling the roost this Melbourne Fringe

To borrow the words of the Bard (and Enobarbus), age cannot wither them, nor custom stale their infinite variety.

A young woman, Mabel Li, is lying on her belly on a couch. She is talking to a young man, Oli Pizzey Stratford, who is in a wheelchair, in a scene from MTC's 'Cost of Living'.
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Theatre review: Cost of Living, Southbank Theatre

Making its Melbourne debut, this production explores human connection and the lives of those living with disability.

Awards & Prizes

Firestation Print Studio

National Monoprint Prize 2025

Biennial Australian Monoprint Prize 2025 Firestation Print Studio is again hosting this National Prize $3000 First Prize $500 second prize.…

The cast and ensemble of La Bohème on two levels.
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Opera review: La Bohème, Athenaeum Theatre

Despite being a tragedy, Melbourne Opera’s La Bohème is a joyful delight to watch.

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