Bruno Mars is set to return to Australia in 2027, with The Romantic Tour expanding to six stadium dates across Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney before heading to New Zealand and Asia. As part of the tour, the global superstar is set to perform at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 February 2027. The newly added dates come after huge demand for The Romantic Tour, which has already broken ticket sales records across North America, Europe and the UK. The Romantic Tour has now grown to more than 115 stadium shows across North America, Europe, the UK,…
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Preston Market is staying open after dark this September, with its first Night Festival bringing food, wine, live music and entertainment to the market for one lively Friday evening. Taking place from 6pm to 9pm on Friday, 11 September, the festival will see select traders stay open late alongside pop-up food stalls, DJs, live performances and plenty of entertainment for families. Food is set to be a major drawcard, with visitors able to graze their way through the market. Bobo’s Oyster Bar will serve freshly shucked oysters and bubbles, while Vinnies and Peters Pizza will dish up pizza by the…
Melbourne’s City Library is set to move from its Flinders Lane home to a new purpose-built facility on Bourke Street as part of a major renewal of the CBD’s civic precinct. City of Melbourne councillors approved the relocation at the August 25 council meeting, with about $13 million expected to be invested over two years to create the new library at City Village. The new City Library would occupy more than 1200 square metres across three floors of the redeveloped City Village, housed within the historic former Commonwealth Bank Building. The relocation is expected to be delivered in 2027-28, ahead…
90s rock fans are in for a big day out, with LOOKOUT returning to Melbourne in 2027 with a line-up featuring +LIVE+, Stone Temple Pilots and 4 Non Blondes. The alternative rock heavyweights will co-headline the festival at Bendigo Racecourse on Sunday 7 March, Rod Laver Arena on Thursday, 11 March and Mornington Racecourse on Saturday 13 March with Geelong favourites Magic Dirt also joining the bill. The tour will celebrate some of the biggest alternative rock songs of the era, bringing together bands responsible for some of the decade’s most recognisable anthems. +LIVE+ will return with a catalogue that…
Melbourne’s Ian Potter State Theatre will reopen in October, six months ahead of schedule, with 18,000 free tickets being offered as part of a huge weekend of performances and celebrations. Housewarming will run from October 9 to 12, marking the first major milestone of the $1.7 billion Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation project. The free program will bring together some of Victoria’s biggest arts organisations and performers, with The Australian Ballet, Opera Australia, Melbourne Theatre Company, Circus Oz, the Victorian College of the Arts, Emma Donovan, Eliza Hull and The Listies among those taking part. There will also be guided tours,…
Forget another night at the pub. Melbourne’s latest creative social trend is putting down the phone, picking up a bunch of flowers and spending an evening learning how to make your own arrangement. Fig & Bloom’s Flower Club Workshop has become a monthly sell-out, bringing strangers together around one long table for an evening of floristry, wine and conversation. Guests arrive with no experience required and leave with a finished arrangement, a new skill and, often, a few new contacts in their phone. The format is deliberately simple. Fig & Bloom supplies market-fresh flowers, tools and a florist to guide…
A much-loved Ballarat bushland park is marking a decade since a grassroots community campaign helped protect it, with a new walking and cycling trail that takes visitors through some of its best scenery. Woowookarung Regional Park spans 641 hectares just outside Ballarat on the lands of the Wadawurrung people. Once used for mining and timber harvesting, the area has since become a popular spot for bushwalking, trail running, cycling and wildlife spotting. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the park has opened the new 10,000 Steps Loop Trail, an 8km circuit designed to showcase the landscape and connect visitors with some…
Some of cinema and television’s most memorable characters are coming to life in Melbourne, with ACMI set to open Lifelike, a new exhibition exploring the art and technology behind on-screen puppetry. Opening on 20 November, the world-premiere exhibition will take visitors behind the scenes of films and television shows including Pinocchio, Anomalisa, Jurassic Park, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Alien, The Muppets, Agro and Ozzie Ostrich. The ACMI-curated exhibition brings together original puppets, concept art, production sketches and behind-the-scenes material, tracing how handmade characters have been created for the screen from the 1970s through to today. ACMI Director & CEO Seb…
An Australian-born ballet that has sold out seasons in London, the United States and across Australia and New Zealand is returning to Melbourne this spring, with Dracula: Ballet at its Darkest taking over Her Majesty’s Theatre for 35 performances. The acclaimed production will run from 10 September to 25 October, bringing its dark and cinematic take on Bram Stoker’s gothic classic back to the city where Melbourne audiences first saw the production during its 2025 Australian and New Zealand tour. The Melbourne season is part of a 65-performance return to Australia for BIG Live, with Dracula also playing Sydney’s State…
Ben Folds is returning to Melbourne with an orchestra behind him, reuniting with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the first time in six years for two Hamer Hall concerts in January 2027. The American singer, songwriter and pianist will perform with the MSO on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 January, opening the orchestra’s 2027 concert year under Principal Guest Conductor Benjamin Northey. The Melbourne shows form part of a national orchestral tour taking Folds to Canberra, Sydney, Hobart and Adelaide between 22 January and 19 February. He will perform with five Australian symphony orchestras, bringing his piano-driven catalogue into a…
Melbourne folk-rock favourites Things of Stone and Wood are returning to the stage with a national tour celebrating their new album The Final Forest, including a hometown show at Brunswick Ballroom this November. The band will kick off the tour in Melbourne on Tuesday 3 November before travelling to Brisbane, Canberra, Avoca Beach and Sydney and Perth. Formed in 1989, Things of Stone and Wood became a household name after their 1992 Top 10 hit Happy Birthday Helen. The band went on to win ARIA and APRA awards, tour internationally and release the gold-certified album The Yearning. The Final Forest…
Sydney Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of An Iliad, starring David Wenham, is heading to Melbourne for a strictly limited season. The production of Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic will play the Playhouse from 18 March to 11 April 2027, following its five-star Sydney run. Directed by Damien Ryan and featuring live music from polymath musician Helen Svoboda, An Iliad puts Wenham at the centre of a gripping retelling of the Trojan War. Wenham plays The Poet, a wry and weary storyteller condemned to recount one of Western literature’s greatest tales over and over again.…