Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
The Comics Lounge in North Melbourne is offering free stand-up comedy shows at 8pm between February 4 – 8 and February 12 or 13. This is an opportunity for audiences to sample performances from Comedy Festival shows from this year and last year in two hours of stand-up comedy.When: February 4, 5, 6, 7, 8…
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Cricket MusicalCricket The Musical – 5 for 25, The 2025 (almost) National Tour will play on Sat. (Feb. 8) at Memo Music Hall, St Kilda . Denis Carnahan is taking his hilarious one-man cult hit musical comedy show on its first National Tour in 2025. Melbourne fans can cheer on their heroes as Cricket The…
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Valentines Day (Fri., Feb. 14) is a special day for many people, I thought I would top my weekend off by attending Summer Fun Fest. What a line up. And what a location, Rochford Wines in the Yarra Valley.With a ‘tour de force’ of the Australian music industry to perform at the inaugural music festival,…
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As part of this year’s Midsumma Festival, A Body At Work had a return Melbourne season at Theatre Works and received a well-earned rapturous reception on its opening night.A solitary woman (Frankie van Kan) tells her story of being queer while working in various roles in the sex industry for well over a decade.Tale after…
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YAYOI KUSAMA RETROSPECTIVE AT NGVYayoi KusamaFrom polka dots to pumpkins and more: Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition opens exclusively in Melbourne with new, world-premiere work.The NGV celebrates the illustrious career of iconic artist Yayoi Kusama with a world-premiere blockbuster exhibition spanning her eight-decade practice, including the global unveiling of the artists most recent immersive…
Read More about OBSERVER: The Arts with Peter Kemp
The Fonz is coming to townLogie winner (1976) Henry Winkler is coming to Hamer Hall for a one- man show, February 15. Best known for his performances in the long running ‘Happy Days’, Henry will discuss all manner of topics about difficulties growing up, then acting , through to his very own family and kids….
Read More about OBSERVER: John O’Keefe’s column
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s wistful and melancholic film Grand Tour, for which he won the Best Director prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, is a strange meld of cinematic styles, part 1930s old Hollywood, part present-day documentary.Loosely based on a Somerset Maughan story, the film’s first half follows Edward (Gonçalo Waddington), a British civil…
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As part of this year’s Midsumma Festival, Frenzy Theatre Company in conjunction with Theatre Works produced Spark, an exploration of a gay man’s search for ‘Mr Right’ in today’s world of apps and online dating.In brief, Simon (played by Ryan Henry) is nearing 30 and desperately searching for love. To help him, he uses Iris…
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In 2022, Iranian student Mahsa Amini was arrested and beaten to death for improperly wearing her hijab.Set against the spontaneous protests that erupted following her death, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig begins as a tense family drama in which an emerging generation gap threatens the family dynamic.Where prosecutor Iman (Misagh Zare) sees…
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