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Judith Lucy and Denise Scott launch the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival without leaving bed
Veteran comedians Denise Scott and Judith Lucy didn't even get out of bed to launch the 31st festival.
Veteran comedians Denise Scott and Judith Lucy didn't even get out of bed to launch the 31st festival.
An evening of thoroughly British classical music came just days after a violent attack in central London.
It already scored a record 13 awards at Sydney's equivalent performing arts awards, and now it has eight more under its belt.
Artisan Fabian Scaunich says the once broken and dirty floor of 200,000 pieces will be ready for the Comedy Festival launch on March 28.
Tony Turner has wanted to direct this Victorian comedy – by the leading playwright of his day – for nearly 40 years because of his interest in the rise of realism in theatre.
The incoming Four Winds musical director is making his debut with tango, flamenco and other Latin sounds.
Choreographer Mariaa Randall explores the story of women and leaving a country for new places.
Four skateboarding novices try to absorb all they can about the art of riding the concrete wave in this new Dance Massive performance piece.
Jerry Herman's Broadway hit has seen a wide range of performers play the title role as well as some tantalising might-have-beens.
This production of the dark, cynical Kander and Ebb musical is energetic and hard to resist.
This production of the classic Bob Fosse musical aims to get back to its vaudeville roots while emphasising its sharp satirical edge.
Austrian-born Ernst Toch's 1927 opera, in the hands of Victorian Opera, updates Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale to the digital age.
Melbourne Opera delivers a fine production of HMS Pinafore but it's almost too energetic for its own good.
As Opera Australia bumps in its spectacular restaging of Carmen outdoors on Sydney Harbour, we look at the feistiest women in the repertoire.
The British comedian and contemporary of Russell Brand and Noel Fielding shares, with the latter especially, a particularly bonkers and often divisive style of humour.
Veteran comedians Denise Scott and Judith Lucy didn't even get out of bed to launch the 31st festival.
This award-winning young comedian sings songs based on her life that people can relate to.
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