Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Police News
A member from the Dog Squad and his canine partner and officers from Operation Trinity arrested three people following an aggravated carjacking in Dandenong on Friday morning (Feb. 27).Police were called to Dandenong Railway Station around 2.50am following reports a man and woman, had stolen a taxi.Officers have been told the pair threatened the driver…
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Police News
Moonee Valley Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating after multiple Victoria State Emergency Service vehicles were broken into at a facility in Aberfeldie on Wednesday morning (Feb. 25).The VICSES vehicles were parked inside the VICSES Essendon Unit facility on Rutherford St when they were broken into about 1am.Four unknown masked offenders arrived in a vehicle…
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Observer
Established cross-disciplinary creative Grazia Marin presents her latest stage play Little Absences from March 18-21 at The Loft, Chapel off Chapel.Directed by Elnaz Sheshgelani, the story tells of Chris, a keenly intelligent and witty woman in the later years of her life, who is obstinately still living at home, despite the concerns of her daughter,…
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Observer
The National Theatre’s film of their stage production of Hamlet bears the marks of performers well versed in the delivery of Shakespeare’s lines.What is interesting is Robert Hastie’s directorial decisions to change the order of some of the scenes and place some of the well known soliloquies in different places.It makes for intriguing questions as…
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Observer
Do Theatre presents Eighteen Lives from March 25-April 4 at The Explosives Factory Theatre, St Kilda.Directed by Fini Liu, this show is described as a ‘darkly funny, poetic comedy about the people we keep meeting again and again, across centuries, across lifetimes.’Three friends fall out, only to discover that their conflict began in a past…
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Observer
Monash Performing Arts Centres (MPAC) present Lighting the Dark, directed by Chris Dyke, on Friday, March 27 at 7.30pm at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clayton.Commissioned by dance company Dancenorth Australia, Lighting the Dark is the first mainstage dance work in Australia – and potentially the world – to be directed by an artist living…
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Observer
Pokelesque was a bold and bawdy hybrid of a show, strikingly imaginative in the way it brought together the worlds of Pokemon, drag and burlesque. It pulled this off, mostly, with style and aplomb but was not without its glitches.The narrative was quite simple: a young woman wants to become the very best Pokemon trainer…
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Observer
Alanah Parkin (pictured) presents her 2026 MICF show Alanah Parkin’s Garage Sale from March 30-April 5 at The Motley Bauhaus, Carlton.Directed by award-winning Isaac Haigh, Garage Sale follows the journey of Greg and Denise – a Narre Warren South couple nervously preparing for their big move to the retirement village up the road.Parkin will blend…
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Observer
Melbourne-based comedian Mel McGlensey (pictured) presents Mel McGlensey is Normal in the 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival from March 26-April 19 in the Jade Room at the Chinese Museum.This time, Mel is letting her audience choose what happens in this collaborative clown experience plumbing the depths of normaldom.The show is co-created by game designer and…
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Observer
Can you imagine a world without William Shakespeare?That’s the starting point of Gordon Thompson’s (pictured) novel Kill Will: Nightbird in SunlightWe meet a teenage Will Shakespeare, who wishes on seven mystical stones, and falls through a time portal from 1580 Stratford into present day London.Seven physical manifestations of the women he has yet to create…
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