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Billie Eilish performs at Rod Laver Arena on March 4, 2025.

Not many people can make an arena go silent. Billie Eilish can

Performing at Rod Laver Arena the musician is genuinely charming, keenly observing her surroundings and finding magic there.

  • Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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Billie-Joa Armstrong of Green Day performs at Marvel Stadium, March 1, 2025.

Green Day take aim at Musk, Trump and Vance in electric Melbourne gig

Performing two albums back to back, the California trio capture a certain moment while continuing to attract new generations of listeners.

  • Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Jessica Nicholas, Andrew Fuhrmann, Tony Way and Cher Tan
Khruangbin perform at Margaret Court Arena, Feburary 25, 2025.

It wasn’t until the set was almost over that I realised the band hadn’t spoken a word

Khruangbin’s Margaret Court Arena initially seemed at odds with their setting – but their music transported the audience to another time and place entirely.

  • Will Cox, Cameron Woodhead, Andrew Fuhrmann, Cher Tan and Jessica Nicholas
Never Have I Ever crackles with spiky repartee.

Set around a drinking game, this play pushes friendship to its limit

In a new play by Deborah Frances-White – host of The Guilty Feminist podcast – four friends find their relationships strained after a confronting evening.

  • Sonia Nair, Cameron Woodhead, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Andrew Fuhrmann, Jessica Nicholas and Will Cox
Kylie Minogue performs at Rod Laver Arena, February 20, 2025.

Kylie Minogue sparkles in spectacular hometown performance

In her first Melbourne concert in over five years, Kylie confidently straddles the roles of international pop icon and girl from the eastern suburbs.

  • Will Cox
Harrison Ritchie-Jones (left) with fellow dancers in Tantrum for 6. 

This colourful show parodies toddlers throwing a tantrum. But does it work?

Tantrum for 6 begins brightly enough, with a parody of six toddlers crashing about, flopping and tumbling, flailing and wailing and clambering over one another.

  • Andrew Fuhrmann and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
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Fans of Veep and The Thick of It will love this political farce

Set in the White House under a US president not unlike Trump, POTUS is a feminist farce.

  • Cameron Woodhead, Tim Byrne and Tony Way
The butcher, the baker...

If you love cabaret as an art form, you must see this provocative show

Inspired by a women-only commune in the 1970s, Ella Filar has created a wild and unsettling comic-erotic cabaret.

  • Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Tony Way, Will Cox and Cameron Woodhead
In his work Truth to Power Cafe, Jeremy Goldstein stands in front of an image of Ebensee, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

Anger, walkouts: This show was an identity politics dumpster fire

Truth to Power Café has been staged 60 times, but on Wednesday night in Melbourne, it spiralled into a traumatic experience for performers and spectators alike.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Andrew Fuhrmann
A Body at Work is a show that takes the audience, with a conspiratorial wink, behind the veil.

Erotic, funny and unflinching: The stellar show that lifts the veil on sex work

A Body at Work is a show that takes the audience, with a conspiratorial wink, behind the veil to expose what it’s really like in strip clubs and brothels.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Liam Pieper