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Murder in the Market: A Murder Village Improvised Whodunnit

Murder in the Market: A Murder Village Improvised Whodunnit

Oct 6 – Oct 10, 2026 · Meat Market, Melbourne

Welcome to Murder Village, where people shop till they drop… dead. Melbourne's award-winning improvised whodunnit returns with a brand-new show in a historic venue. Staged amongst the cobblestones and arches of the heritage-listed Meat Market, Murder in the Market is serving up...

Roisin McAlinden - Fairytale: Ending

Roisin McAlinden - Fairytale: Ending

Oct 6 – Oct 10, 2026 · Bard's Apothecary, Melbourne

A funny feminist anti-fairytale. If you’ve come here looking for happily ever after, you’ve come to the wrong place. Fairytales turned Roisin into a damsel in distress. This is her revenge. 'Like catching up with a brutally honest, very funny friend' - On The House A rallying...

Spire Alight

Oct 9 – Oct 10, 2026 · Arts Centre Melbourne

A dazzling laser light show projected on the iconic Theatres Building Spire, using cutting-edge laser-light technology to trace the architectural details including the ballerina steel skirt. The spire is transformed from a static metallic tower into a breathtaking animated...

Manifesto of Silences

Oct 6 – Oct 11, 2026 · Arts House – North Melbourne Town Hall

The world premiere of Manifesto of Silences by Irene Holub pushes opera beyond spoken language by using Auslan poetry, light, projection and sound. Six Deaf artists - Walter Kadiki, Luke King, Anna Seymour, Ramas McRae, Maya Sandon and Franco Spadea - communicate through Auslan...

MILF and Cookies

MILF and Cookies

Oct 3 – Oct 11, 2026 · Classic Southside, Elsternwick

‘MILF and Cookies’, written and performed by Marilyn Leder, is a comedy and song smackdown of marriage, divorce, dating, antisemitism and smashing through the comedy boys club. As part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, the show is the much anticipated follow-up to Marilyn's smash...

Monty Python's Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot

Sep 16 – Oct 11, 2026 · Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne

The legendary search for the Holy Grail is officially headed for Australia! After a spectacular season at Perth's Planet Royale in May, Drew Anthony Creative has announced that the Tony Award®–winning Best Musical, MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT , will gallop into Melbourne and Sydney...

Saltwater Girls

Saltwater Girls

Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026 · The Motley WhereHaus, Melbourne

Saltwater Girls is a darkly funny new work by Lana Filies about attending Catholic school, discovering her sexuality, and trying to make sense of all the things she was taught to be ashamed of. Through storytelling and poetry Lana moves between memories of girlhood, first...

Saltwater Girls

Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026 · The Motley WhereHaus, Vault 2

Lana Filies' solo work explores queer girlhood, Catholic school and the long road to finding one's own way. Infusing storytelling and poetry, Filies creates a deeply personal work moving between humour, discomfort and moments of genuine tenderness, examining girlhood through the...

Zoe's Killer Instinct

Zoe's Killer Instinct

Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026 · Motley Wherehaus, Melbourne

* * * * * FIVE STARS Sydney Arts Guide Yes. It's her. Zoe. The multi-award winning actress and beloved cultural icon. Here for a bougie evening amongst you, her adoring public, so that you may bask in the reflected light of her divine, twinkling star. And to show you devils how...

Housewarming

Oct 9 – Oct 12, 2026 · Alexander Theatre - The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts

A series of free performances celebrating the reopening of the Ian Potter State Theatre, featuring dance, circus, music and theatre from leading performing arts companies, directed by Michael Kantor. The lineup includes Jude Perl, Brett Chynoweth of The Australian Ballet, Emma...

MILF and Cookies

MILF and Cookies

Oct 14 – Oct 15, 2026 · Melbourne Trades Hall Festival Hub, Carlton

‘MILF and Cookies’, written and performed by Marilyn Leder, is a comedy and song smackdown of marriage, divorce, dating, antisemitism and smashing through the comedy boys club. As part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, the show is the much anticipated follow-up to Marilyn's smash...

The Wagner Gala

The Wagner Gala

Oct 16 · Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne

A landmark, one-night-only musical event to mark the reopening of the Ian Potter State Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne. Be part of our return to the Ian Potter State Theatre, as the curtain rises on a renewed Melbourne icon – and opera reverberates through the theatre once...

Country House: An Improvised Comedy of Manners

Country House: An Improvised Comedy of Manners

Oct 13 – Oct 17, 2026 · Meat Market, Melbourne

You’re cordially invited to Country House, the 1920s comedy that’s oh-so chic, oh-so witty and oh-so improvised. The team behind Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit brings the charm of countryside England to Melbourne Fringe for five off-the-cuff sojourns inspired by Downton...

CREEPY BOYS: SLUGS

Oct 1 – Oct 17, 2026 · Meat Market - The Stables

Part electro-punk concert, part play, part clown show, and part basement puppet nightmare, SLUGS is a technicolour acid trip created by real-life partners S.E. Grummett and Sam Kruger. It features puppet Joni Mitchell, a two-person horse and just about every body part they have...

SLUGS

SLUGS

Oct 1 – Oct 17, 2026 · FESTIVAL HUB: MEAT MARKET – THE STABLES, Melbourne

It’s about nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. We promise. An electro-punk concert, a play, a clown show, and a basement puppet nightmare all rolled into one from award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys (S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger)...

The Manager Is Me

The Manager Is Me

Oct 8 – Oct 17, 2026 · Little Train Creative, South Yarra

A hilarious meltdown about invisible labour and losing your shit in a really organised way Blood type: CBF. Sex life: On Afterpay. The Situation: Three kids, one husband, minutes before school drop-off, and a woman in absolute command of her own collapse. The Manager Is Me is a...

The Manager Is Me

Oct 8 – Oct 17, 2026 · The Motley Wherehaus

A 55-minute solo collision of comedy, spoken word and theatre about the impossible job of holding everything together. Written and performed by Dayna Fallon, 2025 Victorian State Champion of the Australian Poetry Slam and National Finalist at the Sydney Opera House, and directed...

An Evening Without Kate Bush

Oct 13 – Oct 18, 2026 · Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne

An Evening Without Kate Bush, starring Sarah-Louise Young, is a cult cabaret that pays tribute to the music, fans and mythology of Kate Bush. The show features classic hits including Running Up That Hill, Cloudbusting and The Man With The Child In His Eyes, alongside unique...

Piss Be With You

Piss Be With You

Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2026 · Grouse, Melbourne

A side-splitting sapphic splash-tacular; dive into the soul-bearing space betwixt pleasure and p*ss! “Cleo had the entire audience eating (or sipping?) out of the palm of her hand.” - Stage Door Podcast “If the nightclub is a queer church, then Rapture is like a lesbian Jesus”...

PLACE DANCES

Oct 15 – Oct 18, 2026 · Buxton Contemporary

A new solo work by acclaimed Australian dancer and choreographer Lucy Guerin, marking her first performance in thirteen years. Place Dances is a live reckoning with sixty years of dance thinking, beginning in lecture form and moving into physical expression through her body. It...

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

Sep 30 – Oct 18, 2026 · Queensland Performing Arts Centre

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is an Olivier Award-winning musical comedy retelling of Jane Austen's most iconic love story, featuring pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, and You're So Vain. Five women take on all the roles, including...

Sink or SING! A Sing-Along Cabaret

Oct 14 – Oct 18, 2026 · Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom

This interactive singing party is hosted by award-winning vocalist and international vocal coach Amelie Peters, featuring a live six-piece band called The Hot Mess Orchestra. With a fully stocked bar offering plenty of liquid courage, the show turns a night at the cabaret with...

Sink or SING! A Sing-Along Cabaret

Sink or SING! A Sing-Along Cabaret

Oct 14 – Oct 18, 2026 · Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom, Carlton

Attention all bathroom belters and car karaoke kings and queens! After a smash-hit seasons at Adelaide Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sink or SING! A Sing-Along Cabaret arrives at Melbourne Fringe Festival from 14 to 18 October 2026. Hosted by award-winning...

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