Malthouse
2026 season announcements: our rolling guide to the performing arts
Orchestras, recital centres, theatre companies and more: we're compiling a list of 2026 season announcements, to be updated regularly, for…
Troy review: a mythical marvel at the Malthouse
Straddling mythology and today’s brutal truths, the Malthouse production of Troy towers mightily.
The Orchard review: Pony's Cam's radical interpretation of Chekov classic at the Malthouse
In The Orchard Chekov’s classic play is deconstructed as the jumping-off point for a smart, uncompromising rant against our dehumanised…
Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season
Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…
Performance review: The Cadela Força Trilogy – Chapter 1, RISING Festival, Malthouse
A graphic and disturbing look at violence against women.
Performance reviews: The Hotline, Poet No.7 and Zaffé, Melbourne Fringe Festival
An on-demand pregnancy hotline, post-apocalyptic Melbourne and reimagining of a traditional Lebanese wedding at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
The daring future of sovereign Blak storytelling
ArtsHub speaks with YIRRAMBOI Festival and new First Nations theatre company A Daylight Connection, about bold and experimental First Nations…
Theatre review: This is Living, Malthouse Theatre
A study of love, friendships and chosen families.
Theatre review: Nosferatu, Malthouse
A modern telling of a classic tale plays around with a pastiche of Gothic tropes.
Dance review: Monsters
An uncomfortable, thrilling glimpse into the darkness with which we are all learning to live.