What's On
ALL EVENTS
September 2024
Butt Hole
Our flagship cabaret riot! Lubricate your levity with a slippery wet cocktail before gorging your senses on a rotating smorgasbord of silliness and sleaze.
Kitsch Glitz Karaoke
It's kitschy. It's glitzy. It's a frankly ludicrous amount of fun. And it's completely free.
Magic Masterclass
Monday magic workshop! Perfect for date nights, work activities, and aspiring magicians. Learn amazing, professional magic.
The Cockadoodledude’s Barnyard Adventure
You better werk, comrade! Polish off your working-class wig, slip on your farming hooves, and prepare to enter a world of Orwellian dragtasy.
Stitch & Kitsch
Are you a knitting novice? Hooked on crochet? Embroiled in embroidery? Or do you just have an ungodly amount of threadbare socks to darn? All identities and styles of stitching are welcome!
Drawing Straws: Burlesque Life Drawing
Wickedly fun Burlesque Life Drawing on Tuesdays.
Laugh For Lifeline Comedy Fundraiser
Lifeline supports people’s mental health. How can comedians help? This fundraiser will boost your positivity and help fund Lifeline training.
Loose News
Melbourne’s newest weekly sketch comedy show will have you in newsworthy fits of laughter.
ETHICAL SLEAZEBAG
Sensual, sensuous and not at all saintly, welcome to the hottest late night variety in town.
Mystery Radio Theatre
Every month experience a fully-scripted, original comedy murder mystery, performed in the style of old-timey radio plays.
Footy Fanatics Cabaret – AFL Singalonga Pub Quiz
Join the fun & games with an AFL themed Cabaret Singalonga Pub Quiz singing footy songs you love while testing your AFL & general knowledge.
Meat Loaf – Just the Best Pieces
Dine out on a hearty serving of your favourite Meat Loaf pieces as Antony (Dr H) Hubmayer slices through his back catalogue and digest the finest moments.
Drawing Straws: Cabaret of Curiosities
A new life drawing event from the minds that brought you Burlesque Life Drawing with a focus on the craziest nighttime costumes, creatures and club kids.
Lizzie In Love
Join Rebecca Symonds for a captivating one-person cabaret that delves into the extraordinary life and loves of one of England's most iconic monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I.
Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit
Step into the world of a classic English murder mystery, complete with mysterious characters, devilish red herrings, clever clues, and an amateur sleuth always on hand to outsmart local law officials and solve the case themselves.
Classifried! The MKUltra Sitcom
Join a live studio audience (FAKE) for an episode of a beloved sitcom (FAKE) based on the events of MKUltra (REAL).
October 2024
CRUSH
A bold new one-man show by Benjamin Quirk. Have you ever wondered why they call it a crush? Having a crush is heaven. Until it's not. Until it's literally hell on earth.
Thirsty Thursdays - Piano Bar
Kick off your weekend early with Dr Trevor Jones for a night of laughter, cocktails, and live music!
A KILTED QUEER
Fresh on the scene, Marc Isaac brings neurodivergent celtic flamboyant charm to Australian comedy. Think: “The Good Doctor” meets a Scottish version of Rhys Nicholson, but without the respectability!
The Runaway Strings: Live and Uncouth
Banjos, giant sea creatures, cowboys, the crushing grind of mundane reality, fabulous lipstick... what show covers all this and more?
PURE GRIME
Award winning NZ performer Em Barrett immerses you in her strange and twisted dark comedy; all from the perspective of a fly.
Monty Python Cabaret Singalong Circus
Join the hilarious fun as Antony (Dr H) Hubmayer revives the great satirical songs from the Monty Python era. Expect cabaret antics, interactive patter, and lots of singalongs.
Glee Club
Glee Club is the singalong choir that everyone can be a part of.
Cabaret Singalonga Pub Quiz
Join the fun & games singing the songs you know and love while testing your knowledge.
Granny Flaps – Hot Off the Chest Tour
The award-winning comedy act Granny Flaps will have you laughing from beginning to end as she explores love, lust and everything in-between.
Day/Night
A series of monologues by Lilian Hudson and Fergus Black exploring the working world. From 9-5 to hospitality, it is a meditation, a love letter, and a cry for help.
Type A Marketing Man
Playing his ukulele as the ship went down, would type A marketing man sell you a lifeboat?
November 2024
Johnny Balance - The Fabulous Idiot
If you love magic you’ll love this show, and if you hate magic you’ll love it even more!
The Executive Functioner
A heartfelt musical journey by Brandon Koolloos through ADHD, love, and the triumph of self-discovery in life's winding path.
Madwomen Monologues
Madwomen is back for a 13th and final season! 12 monologues written by madly talented women.
Out of Date
A theatrical journey with three women from Italian, Malaysian and Sierra Leonean backgrounds, celebrating food and cultural traditions.
Unhinged
Hinge ... how can such a brilliant concept in theory, fall so short in practice? Maroux and Saskia bring you Unhinged, The Musical. Through storytelling and song, these two mad-moiselles explore the pitfalls inherent in modern-day dating.
Pensive Like a Fox
You know how you think about really important stuff... but you can’t stop thinking like a small, sexy predator?
Dahlin! It’s The Jeanne Little Show
A biographical comedy-drama about one of Australia’s greatest comic talents and cabaret stars.
TruScum
Meet Greg, host of the YouTube channel The Logical Trap. He's a controversial, provocative, transgender wordsmith debunking TERFs, tucutes and transphobes. If you want to know the unfiltered truth about trans people, he’s your man.
Jack the Ripper
A gentleman discovers his wife's infidelity against the backdrop of the Ripper murders.
I Don't Want To Die On A Thursday Night
A collection of love stories told by Vania Octaviani through spoken words and musical performances.
Sustainable Stand Up Comedy Show
A comedy showcase starring a bunch of smart, lovely people who are working to make the world better. MC’d by comedian, activist and ordained Buddhist Tejopala Rawls.
December 2024
I did it!!
Why cry over squandered potential when we can laugh?
Requiem for Men
To put the ghost of his father to rest, a young man must perform the eulogy at his funeral. But he has nothing nice to say. So he begins.
The Job Interview
Get ready to laugh your way through the most chaotic job interviews ever!
Lucy Best's Disgraceful Christmas!
Being a heathen never stopped Lucy Best from celebrating the festive season. Hear naughty, nice, and hilarious festive tales of Christmases past!
Sleigh Girl Sleigh 2: The Sleighing
Its Christmas Eve and tragedy has struck the North Pole; the Grinch is dead. Join us for a Christmas Burlesque Murder Mystery for the ages.
SAUCE
When life gives you lemons… f*ck lemons, order a takeaway – with loads and loads of SAUCE. "Simply delicious.” ★★★★★ – The Arts Review
January 2025
TriAngel
A rollicking improvised musical documentary about an all-female pop trio’s tumultuous rise to fame.
February 2025
Fractured Love
A new theatre piece by Joachim Matschoss where Shakespeare’s much loved heroines deal with love, gender and identity.
March 2025
The Cadaver Palaver
An artfully-embellished one-man show of derring-do (and don’ts), from the overactive imagination of C.S. Carroll.