By Jackson Graham
Megan Thee Stallion, Kings of Leon, Rone, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and James Lehms are among some of the events in Melbourne in November.
The city is coming alive with reminders that summer is just around the corner, and foodies and revellers are welcoming the return of outdoor events including the Night Noodle Markets, a day of electronic dance music and a seaside festival.
Spaces usually off limits to the public such as the third floor of Flinders Street Station – now home to an exhibition by Melbourne street artist Rone – and the Royal Exhibition Building dome promenade are open for exploration.
There’s a splash of colour for all ages this November, with classic musical theatre production Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, or Claude Monet paintings made larger than life at The Lume and much more.
Night Noodle Markets
Melbourne | November 10 until November 27 | Entry Free
After a home-delivery approach last year because of the pandemic, Melbourne’s Night Noodle Markets are back at Birrarung Marr. The open-market stalls are plating up Asian street food for an outdoor dinner or evening snack. Noodles, dumplings, bao buns and desserts are on the menu alongside bars, including one serving zero alcohol.
Melbourne’s Night Noodle Markets will return to Birrarung Marr in November.
Queenscliff Music Festival
Queenscliff | November 25 until November 27 | Tickets only available through resale
In its 24th year, more than 70 artists will perform across the three-day festival for all ages on three main stages on Queenscliff’s foreshore. The town’s quaint streetscape will also feature live music, while offering up craft beers and spirits, wine, and local produce. The lineup includes Indigenous Australian rapper Baker Boy, John Butler, Australian blues rock band The Teskey Brothers and other local acts.
Festival X
Melbourne | November 26 | Tickets from $175.25
A slice of the world’s most popular electronic dance music, pop and hip hop will get crowds moving as Festival X returns after debuting in 2019. Headline acts include Scottish DJ and songwriter Calvin Harris, and American rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Don Toliver.
Megan Thee Stallion is set to perform at Festival X in November. Credit:Getty Images
James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong
Melbourne | November 14 and November 16 | Tickets from $49
Canadian violinist James Ehnes, a two-time Grammy Award winner, and US pianist Andrew Armstrong will perform the Complete Beethoven Sonatas one to 10 over two nights at the Melbourne Recital Centre. The performances were originally planned as part of the Recital Centre’s 2020 Beethoven celebrations and postponed because of the pandemic.
Violinist James Ehnes will perform Beethoven’s Complete Violin Sonatas with pianist Andrew Armstrong.
Titanic The Musical: In Concert
Melbourne | November 4 until November 6 | Tickets $169.90
The five-time Tony Award winner is a production based on real people aboard the “unsinkable ship” on its tragic maiden voyage 110 years ago. The cast includes Australian Opera singer and musical theatre performer Anthony Warlow. The musical will have just four shows at the Melbourne Town Hall.
Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Melbourne | November 13 until January 15 | Ticket prices vary
The feel-good classic musical based around the story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book of Genesis is suitable for children five years and older. Staged for more than 50 years, the new run includes Euan Fistrovic Doidge (Priscilla, Les Miserables) as Joseph and Australian singer-songwriter Paulini (Australian Idol, The Bodyguard Musical) as the Narrator.
Euan Fistrovic Doidge has been cast as Joseph and Paulini as The Narrator in the 2022/3 Australian production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.Credit:Chris Pavlich
Phantom of the Opera
Arts Centre Melbourne | October 30 until 2023 | Tickets from $59
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece is debuting on the Arts Centre stage, starring Josh Piterman (West Side Story) as Phantom. Having been postponed due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the show is finally here, featuring a cast and orchestra of 65, chilling operatic song, and impressive set pieces.
The Lume, Monet & Friends Alive
Melbourne | October 26 until June 30 | Ticket prices vary
Hundreds of thousands of viewers have experienced what it would be like to be inside Vincent van Gogh’s paintings at Melbourne’s immersive digital art gallery, the Lume, during the past 12 months. Now, the gallery is surrounding viewers with French impressionist Claude Monet’s tranquil landscapes, along with works by further 19th century artists including Pissarro, Renoir and Cézanne. Projectors display and add movement to the artworks across 3000 square metres of carpet and up 11-metre walls.
Time – Rone
Melbourne | October 28 until January 29 | Tickets $39.70
Geelong-born street artist Tyrone Wright, known as Rone, has opened the abandoned third floor of Flinders Street Station to feature his signature haunting female portraits. The site’s curiosity and historic charm has inspired themed rooms filled with original and recreated period objects. Rone’s last large-scale work was at the Art Deco mansion Burnham Beeches and his latest experience at Melbourne’s most iconic train station has taken three years to prepare.
Artist Rone in his architectural intervention upstairs at Flinders Street Station.Credit:Jason South
WORLD MADE FLESH – Paul Yore
Melbourne | Until November 20 | Tickets Free
Australian artist Paul Yore’s blend of colour and movement is presented in works spanning the past 15 years. The exhibition features Yore’s quilts and needlework, banners and pendants, collage and assemblage, and large-scale mixed media installations and is the latest in the Australia Centre for Contemporary Art’s solo series.
Kings of Leon
Melbourne | November 5 and November 6 | Tickets from $95
Returning for their first concerts since 2013, Nashville rock band Kings of Leon kick-started their Australian tour in Mildura and will perform at Sidney Myer Music Bowl for two nights. The four-time Grammy winners last year released their eighth album, When You See Yourself. They will be joined on tour by Australian indie rockers The Temper Trap.
Nashville rockers Kings of Leon (pictured) will be joined by The Temper Trap during their Australian tour.
Dua Lipa
Melbourne | November 12 | Limited remaining tickets
Tickets to English pop superstar Dua Lipa’s performance for just 2800 people last month at the Palais Theatre quickly sold out, and the performance was received with high acclaim. The three-time Grammy Award winner last toured Australia in 2018, playing at Mardi Gras and supporting Bruno Mars. Her Future Nostalgia tour celebrates her second studio album, released in 2020.
English pop star Dua Lipa performs live during a one-night only sold-out show at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on October 30, 2022.Credit:Rick Clifford
Flume
Melbourne | November 24 | Tickets from $89
Australian electronic artist Flume will play in Melbourne during a home tour showcasing his third studio album, Palaces, released in May. The Sydneysider, who won a Grammy in 2017, is also known for his remixes of Lorde and Disclosure and performed at global festivals including Coachella and Supersonic. Supporting acts include rapper Channel Tres, singer-songwriter Caroline Polachek, chillwave trailblazer Toro y Moi and singer MAY-A.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Hanging Rock and Melbourne | November 25, 26, 30 and December 2 | Tickets have low availability from $199
Nick Cave is touring his home country to perform the album Carnage (2021) with fellow Aussie musician and long-time collaborator Warren Ellis. Shows at Hanging Rock are sold out, but there are a limited number of tickets available to see the duo at the Palais Theatre. The tour marks the first time Cave and Ellis, a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, have performed in Australia as a duo.
Emilia
Melbourne | November 10 until November 27 | Tickets from $49
The triple Oliver-award-winning production is a mock history that plays into speculation about 17th century poet Emilia Lanier being the “dark lady” referenced in Shakespeare’s sonnets. Described as having the “throbbing heart of Shakespeare” and “the delicious comedy of Blackadder”, the cast from diverse cultural backgrounds use humour and fury to restore a female character who history has erased.
Sunshine Super Girl is set for Melbourne’s Southbank Theatre, The Sumner. Credit:Yaya Stempler
Sunshine Super Girl
Melbourne | November 9 to December 14 | Tickets from $47
The play tells the story of Wiradjuri Australian tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who rose to become the world’s number one women’s player in the mid-1970s and became Australia’s first Aboriginal woman world champion. The work was shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama, and will transform the South Bank theatre into a ‘tennis court’ with onstage courtside seating.
Girls & Boys
Arts Centre Melbourne | Until November 26 | Tickets from $78
By Tony Award-winning British playwright Dennis Kelly and directed by Kate Champion, Girls & Boys is a gripping one-woman show, starring Nikki Shiels as the unnamed lead. Beginning in line for an EasyJet flight, the play follows the highs and extreme lows of a couple eventually immersed in darkness.
Mountain Writers Festival
Macedon | November 4 until November 6 | Limited Tickets remain available
Making its debut this year in Macedon, 60 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, the Mountain Writers Festival is taking a leaf out of books for lovers and advocates of the environment. Panels and author conversations will discuss climate science, activism, gardening, and outback crime. The festival will host writers including Tim Flannery, Midnight Oil singer and former Labor MP Peter Garrett, and New York Times bestseller Sarah Wilson.
Austen Con
Melbourne | November 5 | Tickets $50
The Abbotsford Convent will host the fifth annual Austen Con, celebrating Jane Austen and the Regency society she explored and dramatised through her novels. The event includes role-playing games, dancing, literary discussions, live performances and costumes.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Melbourne | November 10 until November 21 | Ticket prices vary
The festival will screen 149 feature films, documentaries and shorts, including local and international drama, comedy and documentaries. Brazilian queer stories will take centre stage in this year’s festival as organisers seek to highlight risks for LGBTQ people in the South American country and their resilience and creativity.
Part of the view from the top of the Exhibition Building.Credit:Jason South
Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade
Melbourne | Open from October 29 | Tickets $29 (Adults)
It’s now possible to take in the views from on top of Melbourne’s only World Heritage-listed building, the Royal Exhibition Building, for the first time in about a century. A viewing deck around the dome has opened to the public via a guided tour, after repair, conservation and restoration works.
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