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Melbourne Comedy Festival review: The Bedroom Philosopher plays a chaotic feline in Cat Show
Justin Heazlewood's eccentric, wildly unpredictable stage presence may just be your catnip.
Justin Heazlewood's eccentric, wildly unpredictable stage presence may just be your catnip.
Melbourne comic sells his personal quirks unlike anybody else.
It's the most relaxing show you'll see at the festival and the cheapest therapy session in town.
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.
A ensemble of Australian boys get a taste of dance through a staging of William Golding's dark, raw work.
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.
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.
Justin Heazlewood's eccentric, wildly unpredictable stage presence may just be your catnip.
Melbourne comic sells his personal quirks unlike anybody else.
It's the most relaxing show you'll see at the festival and the cheapest therapy session in town.
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