Public listings checked 25/10/2026. Dates use each event’s local time. Check organiser details before travelling.
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The Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival returns to Australia this October 2026, bringing live comedy podcasts, drinks, food trucks and trivia to Humdinger Studios in Brunswick.
Every October, the festival takes over stages in London, Melbourne and NYC, giving audiences the chance to see their favourite funny podcasts live and discover new gems. The programme is a careful curation of internationally beloved podcasters, indie juggernauts and cult favourites that together form the beautiful melting pot that makes up Cheerful.
Shows this year in Melbourne include Plumbing the Death Star, The Greg Larsen Show, Do Go On, Who Knew It with Matt Stewart, A Rational Fear, Rat Bag, Confessions, Book Cheat, Prime Mates, and Don't You Know Who I Am.
From beachside disco to the Howler Garden, DISCOLEIL brings a high-energy night of disco house, classic grooves, and late-night dancing northside.
DISCOLEIL is heading northside for their next edition, taking over Howler Garden for a night of disco house. After spending summer on the beach, and winter in Melbourne's Central Business District, they're bringing the DISCOLEIL feeling into their favourite garden bar this spring.
Headlined by Joey Coco, with strong support from HAUSWiFE, Ben San Clare, ONEDINAYA, and 0SMR, expect a dancefloor moving from the first track until late.
Inspired by the glamour and freedom of Studio 54 and the beach clubs of Europe, DISCOLEIL is all about bringing people together through music, good drinks, and a seriously good night out. Whether you're coming with your usual crew or turning up to dance with strangers, everyone's welcome.
They've brought some of Melbourne's best local selectors to the DISCOLEIL dancefloor, and they are excited to bring another carefully curated lineup to Howler Garden.
One night. One dance floor. One very good reason to stay out on a Sunday. See you northside.
Fresh from a sold-out season in London and a record-breaking tour across Australia and New Zealand in 2025, the critically acclaimed Dracula returns to Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre.
Driven by masterpieces by Bach, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and Debussy, guided by the visceral score of Emmy® Award-winning composer Jason Fernandez.
Choreographed by Joel Burke, this haunting production features a powerhouse alumni cast from the Mariinsky, English National, Stuttgart, and Australian Ballet.
A bold, cinematic reimagining of the gothic classic, Dracula is a work of visceral physicality and dark romanticism.
The best circus performers from across the globe up close and personal.
This award-winning production is a lavish cocktail of the highest quality circus, cabaret, and comedy from the internationally renowned creators of Blanc de Blanc and Late Night Vice.
Where never-before-seen international performers and prized artistry collide in a dazzling crescendo of glamour and virtuosity that never wavers.
Glittering bodies spin overhead at the seductive, velvet draped world of The Spiegeltent. La Ronde is the ultimate night out you've been searching for.
This is an 18 + event. This performance contains strobe lighting, theatrical haze, adult themes, coarse language, partial nudity.
Welcome to the German side of Melbourne.
German Week Melbourne brings two weeks of German culture, food, art and entertainment to venues across Melbourne.
From opera and comedy to workshops, foosball, film, food and family activities, the program offers plenty of ways to experience a little bit of Germany in Melbourne.
Whether you're German, love German culture or are simply curious, there's plenty to discover.
Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A Beautiful Noise is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chart busting, show-stopping American rock icon. With 140 million albums sold, a catalogue of classics, an induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and sold-out concerts around the world that made him bigger than Elvis, Neil Diamond's story was made to shine on Broadway, where the biggest stars tell their story.
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is an inspiring, exhilarating, energy-filled musical memoir, that tells the untold true story of how America's greatest hitmaker became a star, set to the songs that defined his career.
Join cabaret powerhouses Amelia Ryan and Libby O'Donovan OAM for a rollicking tribute to the women who redefined Australian music in the swinging '60s.
From the anthems of Helen Reddy and Olivia Newton-John to the soulful sounds of Judith Durham, Wendy Saddington and more, this uplifting hour brims with iconic songs and hilarious true stories.
Bold, brassy and bursting with mighty vocal strength, I Am Woman shines a spotlight on the trailblazers who sang, stomped and stormed their way into Aussie music history.
Every Monday, Comedy at Spleen is the city's hottest show in town - with a packed room every single week.
With drop-in guests in the past like Jimeoin, Arj Barker, Adam Hills, Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes, Celia Pacquola, Charlie Pickering, Fiona O'Loughlin, Tom Gleeson and many more. You will never know which special guest you are going to get. They also feature all the hottest young acts in Melbourne who will be household names of tomorrow.
It is always a cracker of a show, and you always have to get in early to snare a seat.
Right in the heart of Chinatown is the oldest Hofbräuhaus outside of Europe - Hofbräuhaus Melbourne.
Every Tuesday in the Bier Hall, not only can you experience authentic German food and Bier, but also the blending of German, and Australian culture with Ben Sorensen's Trivia Game Show Experience.
A two hour show combining a range of game show questions, history, food, bier, prizes and most of all you are in the centre of a vibrant example of Australian and German culture.
What happens when the world's most generous person suddenly loses it all?
Timon is an exceptionally wealthy philanthropist who wines, dines, and magnanimously funds the Athenian elite under the blissful delusion that humanity is inherently good. But when the well runs dry, Timon's golden circle of fair-weather flatterers evaporates, transforming an idealist's riches-to-rags downfall into a ferocious, anti-capitalist satire.
Blending high-society decadence with a biting commentary on the transactional nature of relationships, this darkly funny, contemporary spin on Shakespeare and Middleton's underappreciated masterpiece strips away the illusions of currency and friendship, leaving audiences to wonder what the value of our capitalist world truly is.
Following their 2025 season of Titus Andronicus at Theatre Works, Th' Unguarded Duncan now bring Melbourne audiences another powerful production.
United States' superstar comedian Arj Barker hits the Basement Comedy Club underneath Morris House to test out new material and drag out some classic hits in an intimate venue.
Plus special guests.
A night of stand-up comedy where the show runs on your problems, and the comedians are there to solve them.
Upon entry you fill out a slip anonymously with your issues, this is then given to the comedians on stage, who give hilarious ideas to resolve your issues, or sometimes make them worse. Expect a brand new, never-been-heard-before, night of comedy every week, you never know what is going to happen.
