FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS

by Stephi Wild - April 29, 2024

Antipodes Theatre Company has announced the Lead Artists and projects participating in the fifth Winter Lab, an annual accelerator for bold work and new ideas, taking place 1 - 13 July, 2024 in Melbourne....

by Blair Ingenthron - April 21, 2024

The quirky and uplifting musical, Elegies – A Song Cycle by William Finn is coming to fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne. It will be the first presentation of the new company, Clovelly Fox Productions.  This poignant new production, directed by the award-winning Tyran Parke, will be the first chance for ...

by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2024

Emma Mary Hall’s World Problems is a bid for change, reminding us all of the responsibility we have to Planet Earth. Seamlessly merging intimate reflections with a world spanning perspective, World Problems will begin previews on 3 May, followed by a regional tour from 28 May to 7 June, calling at M...

by Stephi Wild - February 14, 2024

Award-winning UK playwright Simon Longman's hilarious, poignant tragicomedy MILKED makes its Australian premiere at fortyfivedownstairs in March 2024, presented by The Ninth Floor Productions. ...

by Blair Ingenthron - January 13, 2024

The Tony award-winning play by Matthew Lopez will make its Australian premiere beginning next week at fortyfivedownstairs....

by BWW Awards - January 05, 2024

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Australia - Melbourne Awards! Winners include Babirra Music Theatre and more!...

by Stephi Wild - July 13, 2023

Following the success of their sold out production of King Lear in 2021, Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns to fortyfivedownstairs with their highly anticipated contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare's original political thriller Julius Caesar. Directed by Richard Murphet (Quick Death, Slow Love...

by Stephi Wild - June 23, 2022

Alice Pung's award-winning novel Laurinda comes to Melbourne Theatre Company's stage, premiering on Thursday 11 August at Southbank Theatre....

by A.A. Cristi - December 17, 2021

Roma McLaughlin and Kathy Fahey's exhibition Coastline, featuring papercuts, collages and paintings depicting the Victorian Southern Ocean, has been extended online until February 2022.  ...

by Stephi Wild - December 08, 2021

Opening at the Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Theatre in March 2022, this entirely original stage adaptation of the iconic and provocative short story Yentl, is the first since the 1975 Broadway play, and the first new adaptation since the pop culture phenomenon that was Barbra Streisand’s 1983 mus...