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Melbourne Premiere of GIRLS & BOYS Starring Nikki Shiels to Open at Melbourne Theatre Company This Month


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 06, 2022

After stunning audiences in London and New York, Girls & Boys will make its Melbourne premiere starring Nikki Shiels (The Picture of Dorian Gray), opening on Thursday 27 October at Arts Centre Melbourne....

Tony-Nominated Play THE SOUND INSIDE Makes Its Australian Premiere


by A.A. Cristi - May 16, 2022

Nominated for six 2020 Tony Awards, including Best Play, The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp will make its Australian premiere, from 20 May at Arts Centre Melbourne....

MTC's JACKY Cancelled Due To COVID Border Closures


by Stephi Wild - August 19, 2021

To date this year, MTC has cancelled 80 performances as a result of COVID lockdowns and associated restrictions. With the cancellation of Jacky, it will bring the total to 120 cancelled performances in 2021. ...

Past Shows

A Midsummer Night's Dream
7/14 - 7/24/2021


Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there are young lovers dreaming ...

The Lifespan of a Fact
5/13 - 7/3/2021


Nadine Garner (Photograph 51) stars alongside Steve Mouzakis (Death and the Maiden) and Ngāti Toa actor Karl Richmond (Punk Rock) making his MTC debut, in ...

The Listies
4/3 - 4/18/2021


ROFLSHALBOWCO sees the Listies tackle the most terrifyingly tortuous family situation of all: BED TIME. Rich, the exhausted parental proxy, is trying to get an ...

The Comedy of Errors
7/15 - 7/25/2020


The Comedy of Errors is a hilarious romp of swapped identities, misguided love, mistaken imprisonment and chaotic mishaps, leading to an unbelievably crazy day for ...


Jon is a prize-winning novelist who wants more out of life. His third marriage is going about as well as his first two, and he’s ...

Hamlet
4/23 - 5/10/2020


Inside the glamorous court of Denmark in the 1960s, a family is torn apart by murder and betrayal. Outside, a country is threatened by Norway. ...

Torch the Place
2/8 - 3/21/2020


For his hysterically funny and moving stage premiere, Benjamin Law employs his effortless self-deprecating wit to spark joy in the clutter. Teresa’s mum finds it ...

Songs for Nobodies
12/18 - 12/29/2019


Following her acclaimed sold-out season in London’s West End, Bernadette Robinson returns in the hit play Songs For Nobodies. First performed 10 years ago, Songs ...


Five activists with intellectual disabilities stage a public meeting. Their goal: a frank and open conversation about a history we would prefer not to know ...

Arbus & West
Arbus & West
2/22 - 3/30/2019

Astroman
Astroman
10/27 - 12/8/2018

The Great Illusionist
The Great Illusionist
8/1 - 8/3/2018


Jump into this enchanting tale of a young boy who longs to be an illusionist. A tale of daring and willpower, the importance of a ...

The Bleeding Tree
The Bleeding Tree
5/16 - 6/19/2018


In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of ...

The Father
The Father
11/2 - 12/16/2017


You can’t fool Andre. But there’s definitely something fishy going on. And while he may be eighty years old and apt to forget things, they ...

Disgraced
Disgraced
8/19 - 10/1/2016


his artist wife Emily in their spacious Upper East Side apartment, where occasionally they’ll throw a dinner party. Tonight’s guests are Jory, a work colleague, ...

Straight White Men
Straight White Men
5/6 - 6/18/2016


Christmas is for family, and brothers Matt, Jake and Drew gather at their Dad’s house for the usual observances of the holiday season, adding a ...

Lungs
Lungs
2/5 - 3/19/2016


In Ikea – of all places – a man tentatively suggests to his partner that perhaps they should start a family, and whoosh – out ...

Hansel and Gretel


Filled with mischief, magic and beautiful music, this specially abridged version of Engelbert Humperdinck’s masterpiece Hansel and Gretel, is the perfect introduction for young audiences ...

The Mountaintop
The Mountaintop
11/1 - 12/14/2013


From his shabby room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Promised Land seems as far away as ever. He calls down for room service ...

Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker


Belarus Free Theatre is a company in exile. Banned from performing in its homeland, its members have resorted to staging their inventive, incendiary productions in ...

All That is Wrong
All That is Wrong
10/19 - 10/20/2013


A lone girl writes on a blackboard, sketching out the details of her life, her passions and her worries. As the words spill from her, ...

Teenage Riot
Teenage Riot
10/15 - 10/18/2013


Four years ago, groundbreaking Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed unveiled Once and for all we're gonna tell you who we are so shut up and ...

Hofesh Shechter: Sun
Hofesh Shechter: Sun
10/11 - 10/16/2013


In a career still only ten years old, Hofesh Shechter's inimitable brand of epic, cinematic and powerfully tribal choreography has become a genre unto itself ...

In Spite of Myself Sans Hotel (Australia)


Critically lauded and awarded Nicola Gunn takes audiences on a journey that is stranger than autofiction in her new show In Spite of Myself. Presented ...

Bang! Crash! Tap!
Bang! Crash! Tap!
9/11 - 9/14/2013


RAW’s electric tap dancers, company founder Andrew Fee & performer Kieran Heilbronn, are joined by UK Beat Box Champion Dr Rhythm and one of Australia’s ...


Theo, Angelie, a toy Lion and an imagined bird take us on a dreamscape adventure of discovery where stories emerge from a nostalgic world of ...

Miss Ophelia
8/3 - 8/4/2013


Ophelia is going to be a great actress who will travel the world, or at least that is what her parents want for her. When ...


From chasing rabbits to challenging a powerful ogre, this cat’s crafty ways soon earn his master the celebrated title of Marquis of Carabas, the admiration ...

Last Man Standing
5/9 - 5/19/2013


Last Man Standing, a Gospel Rock Opera Concert is two hours of hit songs and fun, telling the story of the birth of Rock ‘n’ ...

The Man Who Planted Trees
4/10 - 4/14/2013


Part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival, this multi-sensory theatrical adaptation of Jean Giono’s environmental classic tells the inspiring story of a shepherd who plants a ...

Constellations
2/8 - 3/23/2013


Winner of the 2012 Harold Pinter Award, Nick Payne is among a handful of truly groundbreaking young playwrights in the English-speaking world. In Constellations he ...

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Meat Market Stables (6/18 - 6/19)
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Athenaeum Theatre (5/8 - 5/18)
The Woman In Black in Australia - Melbourne The Woman In Black
Athenaeum Theatre 1 (6/13 - 6/30)
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The Odd in Australia - Melbourne The Odd
Comedy Theatre (5/18 - 6/23)
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