Live Entertainment in Melbourne

Arts Centre Melbourne is the nation's most prominent performing arts centre, comprising the Hamer Hall concert venue, the State Theatre, the Playhouse, and the Fairfax Studio beneath its iconic spire. The complex hosts over 4,000 performances annually by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, and visiting international companies.

Crown Theatre is Australia's most active showroom — a 2,677-capacity venue inside Crown Melbourne presenting the Australian runs of every major Broadway touring production, from Hamilton to Moulin Rouge! the Musical to Come From Away. As Australia's largest dedicated theatrical venue and the primary Broadway house for Melbourne — a city that rivals Sydney in its appetite for live theater — Crown Theatre defines the showroom experience in the Southern Hemisphere's most comprehensive entertainment resort.

Sidney Myer Music Bowl is Melbourne's beloved outdoor amphitheatre, an iconic venue in the Kings Domain gardens that has hosted outdoor concerts since 1956. The distinctive suspended canopy shelters performers while the natural sloping lawn accommodates up to 12,000 audience members for summer performances.

The Forum Theatre is Melbourne's most beautiful concert venue — a 2,200-capacity 1929 Spanish Renaissance cinema with an extraordinary interior painted with Mediterranean night sky complete with twinkling stars, Moorish towers, and Roman statuary that creates one of the world's most magical concert atmospheres. Hosting landmark Australian and international touring artists since the 1980s, The Forum has become the defining room for mid-size concerts in Australia and a source of genuine civic pride for Melbourne's passionate music community.