Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Observer
Wyndham Theatre Company presents the comedy Drinking Habits from May 8 – 17 at the Crossroads Hall, Werribee.Written by Tom Smith and directed by Cody Riker, Drinking Habits tells of trouble forThe Sisters of Perpetual Sewing.They are on the verge of being shut down by the Vatican for being ‘insignificant’, leaving the Sisters to turn…
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Observer
The Lyster Opera Company will continue a regional tour of its production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail, The Abduction of the Seraglio, with two performances at the Irene Mitchell Studio in South Yarra at 2pm on May 3 and 4, and at the Moe Town Hall on May 11.Rachel Buckley, pictured…
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What's On
Melbourne City Mission presents Sleep at the ‘G on Thursday, May 15 at the MCG, Melbourne. Gates open at 5pm.Every year, Victorians unite in support of the thousands of young people who are without a safe place to call home. Many are couch surfing, sleeping in cars, or staying in crowded and unsafe housing.This year…
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Observer
Essence Theatre Productions presents The Yellow Line for five performances from May 29 to June 1 at The Bowery Theatre, St Albans.The Yellow Line, making its premiere, is a new work inspired by true events at Port Phillip Prison. The prison is set to close in 2025 amid major prison reforms.A Pasifika guard is tasked…
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Observer
The golden voice of Muriel Cooper brought so much inspiration and comfort to a generation of radio listeners in her two decades on 3AW and ABC Melbourne.But Muriel’s post-radio career has been equally fascinating. Today she is a popular novelist and is a clinical psychologist.Combining those two skills has led to her latest book, a…
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Police News
Police are investigating a fatal collision in Terang on Tuesday night (Apr. 22). Emergency services were called to reports an e-scooter and car had collided on Lyons St about 6.40pm. The teenage e-scooter rider was airlifted to hospital and later died. The male driver of the Ford utility was not injured and stopped at the…
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Police News
Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested five people following a series of ram raids at luxury stores in Melbourne’s CBD. Detectives executed multiple search warrants at six properties and storage units in Cranbourne, Dandenong and Springvale on tuesday (Apr. 22). Investigators located and seized a number of luxury handbags, stolen vehicles, drugs and assorted…
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Observer
Nathan Hugh Robért returned to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a reworked version of Tiny King, directed by Taylor Griffiths at the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton.Is it a play, stand-up, or a self-deprecating monologue with a dash of audience participation?Honestly, it’s none of the above—and hard to define. What it is, though, is deeply…
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Observer
A fascination with the Guinness Book of World Records exposed Julian O’Shea to many of the world’s quirky and weirdest world records. And so he questioned the provenance of these records. Will they ever be broken and what do you do to become a record breaker?His desideratum to break a world record all started as…
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Observer
Virtuoso stars Casey Filips as the pompous and pretentious British actor, Tobias Finley-Fraser, in this solo comedy master class of a show.Co-opted as casting directors, the audience reserves its collective judgement on auditionee number 86, Finley-Fraser.A classically-trained actor and veteran, Finley-Fraser reveals, of 300 similar cattle call auditions.Like the legendary Alexander Dane from the iconic…
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