Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The bells are ringing in Notre Dame – Quasimodo is out of the shadows and taking centre stage in CLOC Musical Theatre’s production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, being presented May 15-30 at the National Theatre, St Kilda.High above the streets of Paris, Quasimodo wat-ches the world below in a city divided by power,…
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The 60 Four will bring the biggest hits of the ’60s and ’70s to life in a Vegas-style show in Morning Melodies at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne on Monday April 27 at 11am and 1.30pm.Backed by a ‘powerhouse’ live band, The 60 Four jump between evocative ballads and high-energy classics — from the groove…
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The 2026 German Film Festival, Aust-ralia’s only dedicated celebration of German language cinema, is screening nationally from May 8-27 at Palace Cinemas, Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas.Presented by Palace and German Films, this year’s line-up of contemporary German cinema includes powerful dramas, insightful true-life stories, comedy and family films.Festival Centrepiece is Amrum, the celebrated…
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Heidelberg Theatre Company presents the thriller The Girl on the Train from April 24 to May 9 at 36 Turnham Ave, Rosanna.Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and the film by DreamWorks, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, Heidelberg Theatre Company’s production is directed by Deborah Fabbro.The story tells of Rachel Watson…
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Italian clown Andrea Barello (pictured) presents his newest comedic adventure titled Full of Grace as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival until April 18 at 10.30pm at Bard’s Apothecary.Full of Grace follows Father Andrea, a peculiar clergyman as he administers a very peculiar worship service.With hoses-down of holy water, bizarre exorcisms, and parishioners caught…
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Sisters in Crime presents Journalist Sleuths at 8pm on Friday, April 24 at the Rising Sun Hotel, 2 Raglan St, South Melbourne. Dinner from 6.30pm.Christine Gregory (The Informant), Madeleine Cleary (The Butterfly Women) and Laraine Stephens (The White Feather Murders) talk about why and how journalists make such superlative investigators when it comes to crime…
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The Melbourne Town Hall organ is Australia’s largest romantic pipe organ, meaning it can be used for symphonic works.To Anna Lapwood, the official organist of the Royal Albert Hall, it also has a personality and presence.Together they revealed the capabilities and temperament of such an instrument that ranges from delicate chimes to waves of sound…
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MILKE presents Gabbi Bolt in Small Poppy as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from March 26-April 19 at The Malthouse – Playbox.Poppies are tricky. Nurture them too much and they wilt; ignore them and they thrive until they don’t. Harvest too early? Disaster. Grow too tall? Well, we all know what happens to…
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A Kissing Booth Productions writer Jake Stewart, staged his Hold Me Hold Me Hold Me at The Mission for Seafarers, Docklands.An historic complex built last century in 1916, being a part of a worldwide support organisation with headquarters in London, while it has four like Mission locations in Victoria and some 30 locations around Australia.Probably…
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Gasworks Creative Precinct announces the Melbourne season of The Riddle of Washpool Gully, presented by Dead Puppets Society from April 8-11.“Far beyond the outskirts of the big city, near a tiny town that nearly everyone forgot, lies a dry creek bed once known as Washpool Gully.“The world may have moved on from insignificant places –…
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