Features
Comics' Corner - August 2019
SHOWCASING TOP END COMICS AND LOCAL STAND-UP PERFORMERS By Will Crawford It’s August. After work beers, Hanuman curries and wood fired pizzas in the bamboo food village at Festival Park...
An Artistic Exchange
PAIWANESE DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER, Aulu Tjibulangan, is offering workshops in Darwin as part of Artback NT’s 2019 Taiwan-Australia Indigenous Artist in Residency program. Tjibulangan has traded countries with Maningrida visual...
National Dance Forum
WE OFTEN MAKE A FUSS THE FIRST TIME SOMETHING HAPPENS, knowing that once it’s happened, it paves the way for it to happen again and again. Little trail-blazing moments! This...
Illuminated
AMELIA GILDAY IS AN EMERGING creative from Moontan Productions, an indie collective based in southern Sydney. We had a quick chat with her about her show, Illuminated, showing as part...
Comics' Corner - July 2019
SHOWCASING TOP END COMICS AND LOCAL STAND-UP PERFORMERS By Will Crawford Hotel Darwin is home to Fringe Festival Comedy this year, its beer garden transformed into a comics’ wildlife sanctuary...
Blanc de Blanc Encore
IF YOU LOVED BLANC DE BLANC IN 2017, you’re going to love this delicious second helping... Darwin Festival have invited Strut & Fret Production House back for another tantalising tipple...
50 Years of Sydney Dance Company
SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY’S 50TH anniversary bursts into life with a mesmerising night of dance from choreographers Rafael Bonachela, Gabrielle Nankivell and Melanie Lane. In the world premiere of Cinco, Rafael...
Give It A Go, With Corro
CORRUGATED IRON YOUTH ARTS has been on the scene for more than 30 years, helping young creative folks flex their creative muscles in areas of circus and drama. July’s turning...
Comics' Corner - June
CHRIS LILLEY’S NEW SERIES, Lunatics, has been released to mixed reviews. In my opinion, Lunatics is sadly a tired and ultimately frustrating collection of predictably quirky characters, lacking the intelligence...
Darwin Middle School presents - Mirror Image
IN THE FAIRY TALE WORLD, princes are charming, stepsisters are wicked and everyone supposedly lives happily ever after. But Woodsman dreams of being more than an incidental character without a...
On Tour with Artback NT - The Package
A PLAY EXPLORING THE LIFE, death, love and loss will make it’s way through the Territory this month. The Package shares the story of an elderly woman who finds herself...
Deadly Darwin Comedy
If you're dead-set ready for some laughs from the original comedians of the country then get ready for Deadly Darwin Comedy. The inaugural event features a group of four Aboriginal...
TWO
Pull up a bar stool and get to know the regulars in this timeless classic of the stage. By Anna Dowd Written by Jim Cartwright and directed by Ensemble Theatre’s...
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
Dane Simpson has a home- grown approach to comedy that audiences can’t get enough of. By Anna Dowd From sell-out shows with the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars, to his Darwin-bound...
Comics' Corner - May 2019
Showcasing top end comics and local stand-up performers By Will Crawford I was at a house-warming of some very hip 20-somethings, music industry types, when the perennial debate about the...
Comics' Corner - April 2019
Showcasing top end comics and local stand-up performers By Will Crawford Last month a swag of comedians took to the stage to compete in RAW comedy, but it was a...
Canned Comedy Darwin
A new movement to harness the power of local comedy for charity is making its way to the Top End. By Tamara Howie Canned Comedy, where attendees donate canned food...
Cosi
Top End students will get a theatrical look inside a psychiatric facility at Brown’s Mart Theatre’s latest education program production, Cosi. By Tamara Howie More than 760 students will see...
Raw Comedy
It’s March and that means Raw Comedy, the national open mic comedy competition, is hitting town. By Will Crawford Raw Comedy is a national treasure. Established in 1996, it’s unearthed...
Comics' Corner - March
With Christmas a distant memory, the 5-2 fasting resolutions abandoned, and the excitement of the Fringe and Darwin festivals still months away, we asked Darwin’s hottest comedians what online comedy...
