Sunday Arts Magazine

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Chris Mitchell and Tina Del Twist – September 27th, 2026

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2026/09/28

Spiegel Haus Melbourne reopens its Spiegeltent program this season with two major offerings that anchor a renewed period of circus, cabaret and performance at its Lonsdale Street location. Under the guidance of Creative Director Chris Mitchell, the venue launches Briefs: The Works in late September, bringing its high‑energy blend of circus, drag, burlesque and comedy back to the Spiegeltent for a four‑week run. From 21 October, La Ronde arrives as the season’s headline production, introducing a

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21:30

Gavin Campbell – September 27th, 2026

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2026/09/28

Gavin Campbell joins the team to reflect on four decades of Raser, sharing stories from the dance floor, the community that shaped it, and the legacy the event continues to carry. The 40th anniversary celebration takes place at the Carlton Club on Bourke Street on 9 October, running from 8pm to 3am.The post Gavin Campbell – September 27th, 2026 appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

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Tristan Meecham – September 27th, 2026

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2026/09/28

Congress, created by Tristan Meecham and Bec Reid for All the Queens Men, returns to Melbourne Fringe as a large‑scale civic performance inviting citizens to deliver the speeches politicians never give. Presented outdoors in Argyle Square, Carlton, on Saturday 3 October, the event brings together community voices, writers and performers in a public gathering that blends choreography, music and civic storytelling. Congress, Naarm https://melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/events/congress The post

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15:37

Irene Holub – September 27th, 2026

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2026/09/28

Deaf artist Irene Holub premieres Manifesto of Silences at Arts House in North Melbourne from 6 to 11 October as part of Melbourne Fringe. The work reimagines opera through Auslan poetry, movement, projection and immersive sound, creating a visually rich performance accessible to both signers and non‑signers. Holub’s piece explores the historical suppression of Deaf identity and language, offering audiences a powerful, community‑centred experience. Manifesto of

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15:55

Kanen Breen – September 27th, 2026

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2026/09/28

Victorian Opera brings Benjamin Britten’s haunting chamber opera The Turn of the Screw to the Palais Theatre in St Kilda, with Kanen Breen performing the role of Peter Quint. Running from 29 September to 1 October, the production deepens the eerie tension of Henry James’s novella through Stuart Maunder’s direction and Roger Kirk’s atmospheric design. Audiences can expect a taut, unsettling experience shaped by Britten’s score and a cast led by Rachelle Durkin and

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23:07

Tom Holloway – September 20th, 2026

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2026/09/24

Playwright Tom Holloway’s new work Eliza receives its world premiere with Melbourne Theatre Company at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, 140 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank. Running from 28 September to 31 October 2026, this psychological thriller is inspired by real events surrounding MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum and his pioneering talk-therapy computer program ELIZA. Directed by Paige Rattray, the production follows Weizenbaum as he tests a program that simulates therapy using details from his

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Penny Baron and Carolyn Hanna – September 20th, 2026

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2026/09/24

Director and concept creator Penny Baron, with assistant director Carolyn Hanna, premiere Prime Time, an intergenerational work by Born in a Taxi at The Substation, 1 Market Street, Newport. Running from 14 to 17 October 2026 as part of Melbourne Fringe, Prime Time brings a cast of 14 performers aged between 4 and 93 into the spotlight to challenge assumptions about age and ageing. Combining theatre, dance, live and recorded text, sound composition and visual design, the work interrogates age,

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23:17

Jason Dean – September 20th, 2026

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2026/09/24

Singer and pianist Jason Dean steps into the spotlight with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for The Music of Elton – 40 Years of MSO x Elton John. Across four Australian-exclusive concerts at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, from Thursday 1 October to Sunday 4 October 2026, Jason leads Superband and the MSO through some of Elton John’s most memorable songs. Under the musical direction of Chong Lim AM, this tribute revisits the historic 1986 collaboration

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22:43

Steven Mitchell Wright and Jack Burmeister –...

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2026/09/24

Award-winning director and designer Steven Mitchell Wright brings a visceral new staging of Lord of the Flies to Theatre Works in St Kilda. Adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams from William Golding’s classic novel, this highly physical production runs at Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, from 18 September to 2 October 2026. Sound designer Jack Burmeister shapes a sonic world that amplifies the story’s descent from youthful optimism into fear, rivalry and power struggles, making this a gripping

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15:12

Angus Cameron and Iain Sinclair – September 13th, 2026

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2026/09/15

Playwright Angus Cameron and director Iain Sinclair join the show to discuss LUKE, a world premiere developed through Red Stitch’s INK program at Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre on Chapel Street, St Kilda East. With previews from 12 to 17 September and the main season running 18 September to 11 October 2026, LUKE is described as “a dark, winding examination of truth and regret.” Set across decades, the play begins on a night in 2007 when Chris, fresh out of high school, drinks, argues and philosophises

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13:55

Robert Lee Davis – September 13th, 2026

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2026/09/15

Visual artist Robert Lee Davis appears ahead of the opening of Between the lands of now and then at Latrobe Regional Gallery in Morwell. The exhibition, running from 19 September to 29 November 2026, presents an imaginative Myriorama – a myriad of pictures and artworks rooted in storytelling, reflection and community‑driven anecdotes. Through mixed‑media collage and found objects gathered across Victoria, Gippsland and his own history, Davis explores how the lands we inhabit retain memory and

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Emma J Hawkins and Leisa Prowd – September 13th, 2026

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2026/09/15

At La Mama Courthouse, EXHIBIT brings a shape‑shifting theatre event to the 2026 Melbourne Fringe Festival, and creators/performers Emma J Hawkins and Leisa Prowd join Sunday Arts Mag to unpack its beautifully strange world. Running from 30 September to 4 October 2026, EXHIBIT is billed as “a shape‑shifting theatre event – a collection of absurdities. Humans on display. Strange. Funny.” Presented by La Mama and Melbourne Fringe, the work sits between performance and installation, turning

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Elise Poulton and Jaran Latona‑Phasuk – September...

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2026/09/15

Second‑year NICA students Elise Poulton and Jaran Latona‑Phasuk step out from the rehearsal room to talk about Behind the Veil, the 2026 ensemble show at the National Circus Centre in Prahran. Running from 15 to 19 September at NICA’s theatre on 39-59 Green Street, Behind the Veil plunges audiences into a world where perfection is manufactured, productivity is worshipped and individuality is treated as a defect. Under director Kate Fryer, the ensemble uses Chinese pole, swinging trapeze, flying

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Ewan McEoin – September 13th, 2026

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2026/09/15

Senior Curator, Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Ewan McEoin joins the program to discuss the NGV’s world‑premiere exhibition Plant Life: The Nature of Design.Plant Life’s broader exploration of plant‑based materials as alternatives to plastics and synthetics reflects on Indigenous knowledge systems, regenerative design, and how fashion can move beyond the petrochemical century. It’s on at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 28

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Drew Anthony and Jesse Vasiliadas – September 13th, 2026

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2026/09/15

Monty Python’s Spamalot is about to gallop into Melbourne, and Sunday Arts Mag catches producer/director Drew Anthony and emerging WAAPA graduate Jesse Vasiliadas just days before preview. Drew Anthony Creative brings the Tony Award‑winning musical comedy to the historic Athenaeum Theatre on Collins Street, with the Melbourne season running from 16 September to 11 October 2026. Jesse Vasiliadas steps into the role of Sir Lancelot, part of a riotous retelling of King Arthur’s quest that blends

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13:46

Tra Mi Dinh – September 6th, 2026

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2026/09/08

Award winning choreographer Tra Mi Dinh closes the program with a preview of 7 Dances for 7 People, her new ensemble work premiering at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre from 9 to 19 September as part of Darebin Arts Speakeasy and the Darebin FUSE Festival Open Access program. Inspired by one of humanity’s oldest and most mysterious obsessions, the number seven, Dinh describes the piece as a hypnotic ritual of precision, endurance and devotion, performed by seven exceptional dancers. She explains how

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14:45

Beckett Rozentals – September 6th, 2026

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2026/09/08

NGV Senior Curator of Australian Art Beckett Rozentals joins the show to introduce Margaret Preston, the first major retrospective on the artist in more than twenty years. Opening at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in Fed Square on 4 September 2026 and running until 31 January 2027, the exhibition brings together a substantial body of work, including iconic still lifes and woodblock prints, alongside sculpture and archival material. Rozentals discusses the curatorial approach that situates

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Zoe Bastin – September 6th, 2026

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2026/09/08

Choreographer Zoe Bastin appears on Sunday Arts Magazine to talk about The River, described as a new site responsive contemporary dance work set within a natural riverside amphitheatre at Bungies Hole in Werribee. Bastin outlines her interest in working with landscape as collaborator, drawing on the textures, sounds and shifting light of the river environment to shape the choreography. Framed within the context of Melbourne Fringe Festival, she speaks about the challenge and exhilaration of

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14:43

Hamish Sawyer – September 6th, 2026

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2026/09/08

Curator Hamish Sawyer joins the program to mark forty years of Linden New Art, connecting the gallery’s anniversary exhibition Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 Years of Linden New Art with the broader celebrations around its 40th Anniversary Fundraising Gala, Back the Future. The exhibition, running at Linden’s Acland Street home in St Kilda, traces the layered histories of the site from pre colonial Yalukit Willam Country through private residence and hotel to contemporary art space,

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Sofia Chapman and Svetlana Bunic – September 6th, 2026

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2026/09/08

Accordionists Sofia Chapman and Svetlana Bunic bring a playful, street level energy to Sunday Arts Magazine with their celebration of the accordion in the festival they describe as Freshly Squeezed. Drawing on upcoming performances at Wesley Anne, 250 High Street, Northcote, and Ragtime Tavern, 206 Tyler Street, Preston, they share their enthusiasm for intimate venues where audiences can sit close to the bellows and feel the music’s pulse. In conversation, Chapman and Bunic talk about the

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