Events in Carlton

Curtain Square

A heritage-listed Victorian-era garden square in Carlton North with a playground, shaded lawns and a fenced dog park, managed by Yarra City Council.

La Mama Courthouse

La Mama is an independent theatre founded in Carlton in 1967 by Betty Burstall to nurture new Australian theatre, modelled on the off-off-Broadway coffee-house theatre scene she encountered in New York. La Mama Courthouse, in the former Carlton Courthouse on Drummond Street, has been one of its performance venues since the mid-1990s, hosting theatre, poetry, music and cabaret.

La Mama HQ

La Mama is an independent theatre in Carlton founded by Betty Burstall in 1967 as a playwright's theatre for new Australian work, modelled on the off-off-Broadway coffee-house theatres of 1960s New York. It has continued to support new and experimental theatre, dance and music for more than 50 years.