Theatre entertainment in Melbourne
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Melbourne Theatre Company
Melbourne’s most high-profile professional theatre company, the Melbourne Theatre Company, is also Australia’s oldest. It stages up to a dozen performances year-round at the Victorian Arts Centre. Productions are often firmly focused on satisfying the company’s middle-market subscriber base. It features works by well-known Australian playwrights such as David Williamson and locals Hannie Rayson and Joanna Murray-Smith, as well as international works. The MTC also runs a readings program to promote and develop the works of emerging playwrights.
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Chamber Made Theatre
Founded in 1988, Chamber Made productions showcase contemporary music and music-based performance art. Performances aren’t usually more frequent than quarterly, though they supplement productions with work in progress presentations.
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Theatreworks
Theatreworks is a community theatre dedicated to supporting a range of arts practitioners, housed in a parish hall that looks like it’s straight out of The Vicar of Dibley. The company has been around for 25-odd years.
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Red Stitch
This is an independent company of actors staging new international works that are often premieres in Australia. The tiny black-box theatre, opposite the Astor - down the end of the driveway - is a cosy, intimate space.
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Red Stitch Actors Theatre
This independent company of actors stages new international works that are often premieres in Australia. The tiny black-box theatre, opposite the Astor and down the end of the driveway, is a cosy, intimate space.
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Her Majesty’s
On the outside Her Maj is red-brick Second Empire; on the inside it’s 1930s Moderne. It’s been the home of musical comedy since 1880 and is still going strong.
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La Mama
This tiny, intimate forum produces new Australian works and experimental theatre, and has a reputation for developing emerging playwrights.
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Regent Theatre
Across the road form the Athenaeum Theatre is the opulent Regent Theatre.
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Princess Theatre
This beautifully renovated landmark theatre is the venue for super-slick musicals.
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