Beers and tears flow in pub poignant portrait of pub life
Offstage partners Brian Meegan and Kate Raison play an unhappy couple running a singles bar in this late 1980s slice-of-life by Jim Cartwright.
Offstage partners Brian Meegan and Kate Raison play an unhappy couple running a singles bar in this late 1980s slice-of-life by Jim Cartwright.
A decade ago journalist Stephanie Bunbury witnessed Irish comedian David O'Doherty's self-confessed worst gig ever. But as she tells it, it wasn't so bad.
Veteran comedians Denise Scott and Judith Lucy didn't even get out of bed to launch the 31st festival.
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.
After the success of Tim Minchin's hit musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day, another Australian is heading to Broadway.
Much of the appeal of this new Australian musical about the women who work in a department store lies in the exploration of the social history of the times.
Jerry Herman's Broadway hit has seen a wide range of performers play the title role as well as some tantalising might-have-beens.
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.
A decade ago journalist Stephanie Bunbury witnessed Irish comedian David O'Doherty's self-confessed worst gig ever. But as she tells it, it wasn't so bad.
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.
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