Girlplay: Singer/songwriter Sam Lohs, from the acclaimed folk/roots band Fruit, is special guest at the next Play Like A Girl jam session for women musicians at The Glasshouse. Girl is a safe space for women to jam together and expand creativity, skills and networks. PA & backline gear provided. BYO instruments. All welcome, but only women musicians on stage.

Tuesday June 24
7-10pm
Gold coin donation
The Glasshouse, 51 Gipps St Collingwood

Laughs

Toby Sullivan (ABC Radio, Talking Poofy) is married to his husband, balding,
almost 40 and from Melbourne - so what on earth is he doing in glitzy Sydney
for a day? A solo show from one of Melbourne's favourite comedians about
almost feeling comfortable, some of the time.

Toby Sullivan: Not Quite Right
1 - 12 July, 8.15pm, Trades Hall
Tickets and info: www.tobysullivan.cc

Theatre

The Heidelberg Theatre Company are staging Part One of Tony Kushner's classic Angels In America. An epic, fantastical journey through the AIDS crisis of the 80s, Angels is one of the great theatrical masterpieces of the 20th century. The season includes a reading on July 20, with all proceeds going to the Victorian AIDS Council.

July 9-26
36 Turnham Ave Rosanna
Bookings: 9457 4117

Music

Vanessa Amorosi is touring the country to support the release of her soulful new album, Somehwere In The Real World. She hits Melbourne with shows at the Trak Centre, Toorak on June 27, and the Chelsea Heights Hotel on June 28. If you haven't heard Amorosi live yet, don't miss this chance - she's got one hell of a voice.

Details: www.vanessaamorosi.com

Country

Fanny May Cracker is an ocotgenerian multi-divorcee country singer who delivers more double-entendres involving the word 'fanny' than you can poke a stick at. She's taking up a Friday night residency at the Temple Bar on the 20th and 27th of June - see you there, cowboys and cowgirls!

Templebar, 98 Smith St, Collingwood
3 course dinner and show: $35
Bookings: 9417 5811