Melbourne has more performing art venues than any other city in Australia. The following is a list of venues and maximum capacities.
- The Butterfly Club (50 people)
- Festival Hall (5445 people)
- Marriner Group Theatres
- Princess Theatre (1488 people)
- Regent Theatre (2162 people)
- Forum Theatre (#1 1500 people #2 520 people)
- Comedy Theatre (997 people)
- Athenaeum (1000 people)
- Her Majesty's Theatre (1705 people)
- RMIT
- Capitol Theatre (600 people)
- Storey Hall (700 people)
- Palais Theatre (2896 people)
- National Theatre (783 people)
- Melbourne Town Hall (2492 people)
- BMW Edge Federation Square (450 people)
- Iwaki Auditorium ABC Centre (375 people)
- Victorian Arts Centre
- Sidney Myer Music Bowl (13,200 people)
- Hamer Hall (2661 people)
- State Theatre (2085 people)
- Playhouse Theatre (884 people)
- Fairfax Studio (376 people)
- Blackbox (150 people)
- Melbourne Recital Centre
- Elizabeth Murdoch Hall (1000 people)
- The Salon (180 people)
- CUB Malthouse
- Merlyn Theatre (520 people)
- Beckett Theatre (198 people)
- Tower Theatre (99 people)
- La Mama Theatre
- La Mama Courthouse
- Melbourne Theatre Company
- Summer Theatre (500 people)
- Lawler Studio (150 people)
- University of Melbourne
- Melba Hall - Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (340 people)
- Ruskin Hall
- Red Stitch Actors Theatre
- Theatreworks St Kilda (160 people)
- Gasworks Art Park
- Gasworks Theatre (176 people)
- Gasworks Studio (60 people)
- Cromwell Road Theatre - Polyglot Puppet Theatre (120 people)
- South Melbourne Town Hall
- Arts House
- North Melbourne Town Hall (400 people)
- Meat Market
- Monash University Clayton Campus
- Robert Blackwood Hall (1598 people)
- Alexander Theatre (508 people)
- The Black Lung Theatre
- Chapel off Chapel
- Chapel (250 people)
- Chapel Loft (100 people)
- Forty Five Downstairs (150 people)
- St Martins Youth Arts Centre
- Main Theatre (348 people)
- Irene Mitchell Studio (100 people)
- The Store House (63 people)
- The Whitehorse Centre (previously the Nunawading Performing Arts Centre) (408 people)
Famous quotes containing the words performing and/or art:
“Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate,—and meantime it is only puss and her tail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor’s art infinite.”
—Ellen Terry (1847–1928)