Past Events

This duo is serving the tea hot ☕🔥and keeping receipts. PERIODT.

Now I'm living in ecstasy.

Gothic and absurd, hard-hitting and hilarious, classic and contemporary

In Bluewater, the only thing growing faster than the vineyards is the body count.

Up close and personal with one of China's most provocative exports.

Falling apart can bring you together.

Turns out a rare degenerative disease is just what you need to live a little #itsgivingblessed

A one-human hootenanny about cow folk and cow things by one of Australia’s finest slingers of stupidity.

Like a walking tour... If it was led by someone broke – bored – and a comedian.

Join host Maeve Marsden and some of the festival's best comedians in celebrating the culture & creativity of the LGBTQI+ community one true story at a time.

Roger has has written a play, and Victoria is to be the leading lady. They must now cast the remaining 72 roles.

A one-woman cabaret experience that’s part dinner theatre, part Fright Night spectacular.

Real Stories, Fake News.

A rambunctious match made on eggshells.

Taste award-winning Scotchmans Hill wines with Chief Winemaker Robin Brockett

A night of psychedelics, nuclear meltdowns, and forensic mishaps

★★★★★ ‘This may be the best performance seen on Australian stages this year’ —The Age

It shouldn’t be awful, is priced accordingly and will be finished by 7.30pm

★★★★★ 'A one-hour tour de force performance from the master comedian.' —Broadway Baby (UK)

★★★★ 'Louder than the White Stripes, more dysfunctional than Metallica and funnier than Flight of the Conchords.' —Irish Times

The discovery of his mother’s 1946 diary leads Damian to recast his parents in a double feature of love and loss set in post-war Melbourne.

Maybe funny, maybe not. Maybe haha, maybe hoho.

If two girls one cup was a musical, then that would be great, but for now, there’s WET HEAT.

A genre-bending concoction of cabaret, cinema, and keytar solos with a Gen-Z twist.

Tony Lyall's in Australia for the first time with a hand picked selection of the finest jokes ever written! (by him)

An adventure story unlike any other and a one-woman show that pushes the boundaries of multi-character performance.

A celebration of indigenous cultures survival, creativity and strength.

Happy hour just got happier, your Thursday night is on us.

Celebrate the skin you’re in in a body positive festival that's taking up space.

Presented by Premier Artists

Presented by Press Play

Presented by Press Play

Presented by Press Play

Presented by Premier Artists

On Malthouse Outdoor Stage

Presented by The Ang Fang Quartet

Performance cancelled and moved to The Corner Hotel

Presented by Beautiful Dark: The Music of Twin Peaks

Presented by Press Play

Performance cancelled. Ticket buyers please check your email for more information.

Think Little Mermaid meets JAWS... an absolute massacre!

A series of bold and irreverent conversations: no recordings, no do-overs, no holds barred

A story of order and disorder, reality and appearance, and love and marriage.

A VCE Season of Excellence Event

These three unique women will stop at nothing to right wrongs done and pave a new path in this farce dramatic comedy.

The cult of the male genius gets a thirsty-wigged skewering.

In a world full of commotion and clamour, 4/4 is a captivating meditation of meticulous dance.

VCASS Dance

A sinkhole has opened in the ground. This is the story of a woman who climbs into it. And what she finds.

Truth at all costs

An offbeat comedy from Malthouse Artist in Residence Ra Chapman

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

Malthouse Education 2022

Malthouse Education 2022

Malthouse Education 2022

Malthouse Education 2022

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

Presented by Melbourne Grammar School

We're all in this together.

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

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

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

‘Truly captivating’ — The Age

‘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

VCE Drama / Unit 3

Malthouse Education 2023