New performance venues in Melbourne and Brisbane

A revitalised indie theatre complex in Brisbane’s Petrie Terrace is one of several new performance venues.

22 Oct 2025 15:37

Richard Watts

New performance venue Lango at Footscray Community Arts. An artist's render of the outdoor performance space, showing the stage and the three overlapping architectural shells arcing above it.

Performing Arts

New performance venue Lango, at Melbourne’s Footscray Community Arts, opens in November. Image: Supplied.

Two new performing arts spaces are set to open in Melbourne, one in the heart of the CBD and another in Footscray in the city’s inner west.

In Brisbane, the purpose-built independent theatre complex Ad Astra opened last month in the inner city suburb Petrie Terrace, and has already hosted its first production.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts