Midsumma Festival
Sun, sweat, sequins: Midsumma Pride March hits milestone
After a bruising week for gender diverse communities around the world, Melbourne’s LGBTQ community has celebrated in style during the annual Pride March.
- Ashleigh McMillan
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Banned from wearing uniforms, paramedics pull out of Midsumma Pride March
Paramedics have withdrawn from participating in Sunday’s Pride March after event organisers banned marchers from wearing work uniforms as part of a new “trauma-informed approach”.
- Bridie Smith
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
Amyl and the Sniffers’ biggest show yet is a riotous celebration
There’s a real sense of community and communion as the crowd thrashes, screams and whoops for 90 minutes of pure chaos.
- Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Cameron Woodhead and Andrew Fuhrmann
Stranger than Trump? Penn & Teller provide the best performance art of the day
In a tour celebrating their golden jubilee, the duo showed a packed Hamer Hall exactly why their act is so enduring and beloved.
- Cameron Woodhead, Jessica Nicholas and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
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Victoria Police withdraws from Midsumma Pride March
Police announced their decision after organisers banned participants from wearing formal work uniforms following violence at last year’s event.
- Lachlan Abbott and Cassandra Morgan
Flop to smash hit: Sumptuous, talent-packed Bernstein musical goes the whole ham
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes four five-star shows within one week – including one that hasn’t been seen on our stages since the ’80s.
- Bridget Davies, Jessica Nicholas, Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way and Andrew Fuhrmann
Thought-provoking and peppered with dry wit, this is a play that cannot be ignored
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Overflow, The Breeders, Queer as Flux, Home Economics, Louis Tomlinson at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, and more.
- Cameron Woodhead, Will Cox, Tony Way and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
The celebrated play taking on bathroom bigotry
Set in a women’s bathroom, Overflow is a one-woman show that tells an intimate and powerful story. It makes its Melbourne debut this week.
- Stephen A Russell
No serious theatre lover should miss this epic event
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes The Inheritance at fortyfivedownstairs, On the Uncertainty of Signs, Malevo, and Gracie Abrams at the Forum.
- Cameron Woodhead, Sonia Nair, Andrew Fuhrmann and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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