FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS

by Stephi Wild - November 27, 2024

Midsumma, Australia’s premier LGBTQIA+ Arts Organisation has announced the 2025 festival program. Learn more about the full upcoming lineup for the event here!...

by Blair Ingenthron - July 29, 2024

Tickets are on pre-sale from today and on general public sales from Friday for the Melbourne season of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's celebrated rock musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, which will open at the Princess Theatre from 16 March....

by Stephi Wild - July 08, 2024

The lead cast for the Australian tour of the award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated rock musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR has been revealed. ...

by Nicole Rosky - July 07, 2024

The lead cast for the Australian tour of the award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated rock musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR has been revealed....

by Blair Ingenthron - June 09, 2024

The producers of the quirky and uplifting musical, Elegies – A Song Cycle have announced that national treasure, Nadine Garner will be joined by Music Theatre stars, Kerrie Anne Greenland and Glenn Hill....

by Stephi Wild - April 29, 2024

Antipodes Theatre Company has announced the Lead Artists and projects participating in the fifth Winter Lab, an annual accelerator for bold work and new ideas, taking place 1 - 13 July, 2024 in Melbourne....

by Blair Ingenthron - April 21, 2024

The quirky and uplifting musical, Elegies – A Song Cycle by William Finn is coming to fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne. It will be the first presentation of the new company, Clovelly Fox Productions.  This poignant new production, directed by the award-winning Tyran Parke, will be the first chance for ...

by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2024

Emma Mary Hall’s World Problems is a bid for change, reminding us all of the responsibility we have to Planet Earth. Seamlessly merging intimate reflections with a world spanning perspective, World Problems will begin previews on 3 May, followed by a regional tour from 28 May to 7 June, calling at M...

by Stephi Wild - February 14, 2024

Award-winning UK playwright Simon Longman's hilarious, poignant tragicomedy MILKED makes its Australian premiere at fortyfivedownstairs in March 2024, presented by The Ninth Floor Productions. ...

by Blair Ingenthron - January 13, 2024

The Tony award-winning play by Matthew Lopez will make its Australian premiere beginning next week at fortyfivedownstairs....