Arts & Culture
Reminders of wartime looms over Princes Bridge
In the early 1940s in Melbourne, as war ravages overseas, life in the city carries on as normal at the corner of Princes Bridge and Flinders St.
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Waitress to serve up Broadway charm in the CBD this May
A fresh slice of Broadway is heading to the CBD next month, with Waitress set to begin its Australian premiere season at Her Majesty’s Theatre from May 1.
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An escapee arrested at the Coffee Tavern
Opened in October 1882 on Bourke St between Swanston and Russell streets, the 90-foot-tall Melbourne Coffee Tavern featured 161 bedrooms and was also home to a sewing machine business owned by Hugo Wertheim.
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Melbourne Writers Festival marks 40 years with Visions & Revisions
Running from Thursday, May 7 to Monday, May 10, this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) features a lineup of more than 150 artists from across Australia and around the world brought together under the theme Visions & Revisions.
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Melbourne singer in new “narcissistic” reading of The Rake Punished
A new production of Don Giovanni, alternatively titled The Rake Punished, opening at the Athenaeum on April 26 interprets the title character of the classic opera as a sex offender. CBD-based singer Eddie Muliaumaseali’i is singing in it.
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Why ART still stings, sparkles and lands 30 years on
Some plays arrive, make a splash and fade. Others burrow deeper into theatre culture and refuse to leave. ART, Yasmina Reza’s internationally celebrated three-hander about friendship, taste and the detonating power of one very expensive painting, belongs firmly in the second category.
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The beginning of a square, and the end of history
For those who are young or new to Melbourne, it might be a shock to discover that buildings once occupied the site of Town Hall Station, at the corner of Swanston and Collins streets.
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RISING returns with city-wide winter program led by music, dance and spectacle
Melbourne’s signature winter arts festival will return in late May with an expansive 2026 program set to transform the city into a stage for music, dance, performance and public art.
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Nicholas Building will mark centenary in March
After a reported $80 million sale fell through in 2022, major rent hikes saw a significant attrition of artists from its studios, but an eclectic range of creative types still work in the Nicholas Building, which turns 100 in March.
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Chrissy Amphlett’s rock and rage return to Melbourne stage
One of Australia’s most electrifying music stories is set to roar back to Melbourne next month, with Amplified: The Exquisite Rock and Rage of Chrissy Amphlett playing a strictly limited season at the Comedy Theatre from March 19 to 22
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Where “Chloe” once hung
Greens candidate Karl Hessian withdraws from City of Melbourne election race
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