Past Events

A new play by Vidya Rajan, based on the book by Melina Marchetta

A panel discussion in partnership with the Wheeler Centre

An epic, 250-year story to return home the captive bodily remains of First Peoples.

Meet Chase. You just might see yourself.

A new play by Aran Thangaratnam

The high wire comes to Malthouse Outdoor Stage

Presented by Token Events

Presented by Mistletone

Presented by Mistletone

Presented by Token Events

Presented by Token Events

Presented by Supersonic events

Presented by Midsumma and Rawcus.

Presented on Malthouse Outdoor Stage

On Malthouse Outdoor Stage

Presented by Mistletone

Presented by RAZ Music

Presented by Live Nation

Presented by Pietagogetter

Presented by Fish and Twiner's Bait Shop. Performed by Lily Fish. Directed by Kimberley Twiner.

Presented by Michael Griffiths

MILKE Presents

Comedy Festival at Malthouse

Presented by Kimmie Lovegrove

Comedy Festival at Malthouse

MILKE Presents

Presented by Maria Angelico

Presented by Pietagogetter

MILKE presents

Presented as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Presented by RISING

Presented by RISING

Presented by Just for Laughs Australia: Live

Presented by Wesley College Glen Waverley

Presented by Emsolation with Em Rusciano & Michael Lucas

Presented by Australian Art Orchestra

We're all in this together.

A conversation about storytelling. Presented in partnership with SAARI Collective.

One actor. Three dancers. A cave. A rescue mission. And a monster.

An immersive theatre adventure by Malthouse Theatre

On Malthouse Outdoor Stage

Presented by Quiet RIOT and House of Valerie Joan

Presented by Mistletone

Presented by Malthouse

Presented by YIRRAMBOI

Presented by YIRRAMBOI

Presented by YIRRAMBOI Festival

Presented by YIRRAMBOI

Presented by Party Passport, Midsumma & YIRRAMBOI Festival

Presented by Midsumma Festival

Presented by the Wheeler Centre

Presented by Archer Magazine, The Wheeler Centre, and Midsumma Festival.​

Presented by The People of Cabaret and Midsumma Festival

Presented by the Wheeler Centre

Presented by the Wheeler Centre

Presented by the Wheeler Centre

Presented by 5AM Physical Theatre

Presented by Rhinestone Rebel Presents

On Malthouse Outdoor Stage

On Malthouse Outdoor Stage

Presented by the Wheeler Centre

Presented by Token Events

Presented by Chunky Move

Presented by Token Events

Presented by Token Events

Presented by Chunky Move

Presented by Token Events

Presented by Chunky Move

Presented by Chunky Move

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Schwartz Media

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

Presented by Penny Drop

It's like Book Club but funny

Presented by RISING

Presented by RISING

Malthouse Prompt Youth & Education 2021

'Nihilistic, foul-mouthed and calculated to please almost no-one' — The Australian (For Loaded, Novel)

Nine ordinary people's lives in lockdown are anything but ordinary

A rambunctious match made on eggshells

Shakespeare’s tragedy has never been more relevant than in This Ignorant Present

Australian playwright Ra Chapman's mainstage debut

‘Damn, the real world is a hell of a writer' — Artforum

‘Truly captivating’ — The Age

From trophies of delusion to redemption

‘A searing indictment of the law's treatment of women' — Sydney Morning Herald

If trouble and mischief is all you live for...

'Exceptionally funny…Glorious absurdity… Makes you hear every line afresh' — The Guardian

A new adaptation of Hao Jingfang's Hugo Award-winning novelette Folding Beijing

★★★★ 'Chong [is] an immensely sensitive and supple theatre-maker' — Time Out (for Little Emperors)

★★★★½ 'Genius' — Theatre People

★★★★★ 'Hilariously intelligent...damn good comedy' — The Music

★★★★ 'Ambitious and often strangely beautiful' — Time Out

★★★★★ 'Solaris is a triumphant and emotionally vibrant production' — The Music

★★★★½ 'Brilliant, Bold and deeply unnerving theatre' — The Age

Haunted house. Monument of love. Great continent. Cloudstreet is all that and more.

Be someone else. Join The Temple.

★★★★½ 'A show that takes the ground from under you, even as it entertains the hell out of you' — The Age

★★★★★ 'A show I'll be thinking about for years to come' — The Age

★★★★★ 'Fast-paced adventure' — ArtsHub

The power and ecstasy of grief

Control. Co-ordinate. Collide. Checkmate.

★★★★★ 'If there's one piece of theatre you see this year, make it Trustees' — Theatre People

★★★★ 'Brilliant, irreverent, autobiographical theatre' — The Age

'The work of a director who has come into her full powers' — The Conversation

★★★★ 'Accomplished, evocative stage debut' — The Guardian

★★★★★ 'Fast-paced adventure that brings the house down' — ArtsHub

★★★★½ 'Guttingly powerful' — The Music

★★★★ 'Bursts off the stage' — Time Out

★★★★ 'The next laugh is never too far away' — ArtsHub

★★★★ 'A vital confrontation, extraordinary' — The Observer

★★★★½ 'A brilliantly constructed production and compellingly performed' — ArtsHub

★★★★★ 'An experience designed to beguile' — Herald Scotland

'A bittersweet, heartwarming coming of age story laced with humour and irony' — American Theatre

★★★★★ 'Sucker punch funny. I've never seen a play quite like it' — The Scotsman

★★★★ 'Pamela Rabe shines in chiselled, authoritative performance' — The Age

★★★★½ 'Stylish and soulful, wild and disturbing and darkly funny' — The Age

★★★★ 'A challenging, moving play about spectacle, difference and identity' — Limelight Magazine

★★★★ 'Repulsive, inappropriate and often brilliant' — The Age

★★★★ 'A moving road trip through Australia's desert centre' — The Age

★★★★ 'A play as energised by hilarity as ferocity, by anger as anguish' — The Age

★★★★★ 'Outrageously funny' — The Guardian

★★★★½ 'Magnificent on every level' — The Age

★★★★ 'Tantalising, entertaining, ridiculous' — Herald Sun

★★★★ 'A refreshingly urgent piece of new Australian writing' — Time Out

★★★★ 'Heightened, visually striking domestic melodrama' — The Age

★★★★★ 'An hallucinatory, tech-augmented tour de force' — The Age

'A unique two hander' — The Conversation

★★★★ 'Fearlessly complex and visually arresting' — The Music

// Strips Australia bare

// Is a feast of contradictions

// Pulls back the covers on teenage boys and porn

// Unites two iridescent artists—musician Tim Finn and poet Dorothy Porter

// Pays the ultimate price for making the personal political

// And peer over the edge

// That are unthinkable, are the hardest to put behind us

Curated by THE RABBLE

Curated by Felix Ching Ching Ho

// Is a stone's throw away from collapse

Curated by Samara Hersch

// Worth living for

// Proves that horror is a warm, sunny day

Curated by Daniel Schlussser

// A fairytale gone rogue