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Comics' Corner – Fringe Festival Forecast – A Jovial July
July sees Darwin electrified by some dynamic comic talent. If Adelaide has Mad March, Darwin now has Jovial and Juvenile July. Maybe it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue but...
Coranderrk
In 1881 the Kulin clans, facing the imminent loss of their land and freedoms, brought about a Parliamentary Inquiry to continue living on the Victorian Aboriginal reserve of Coranderrk as...
Terror Australis
Leah Shelton was performing in a glitzy variety show in Las Vegas when she had the idea for Terror Australis, an anti-burlesque cabaret show exploring Australian culture’s dark undercurrent. Off...
The Sound of Waiting
"The power of empathy is greater than the power of death," says playwright Mary Anne Butler as she premieres her powerful new play The Sound of Waiting. Butler wrote the...
Shirley Valentine
Trapped in a domestic rut with an ungrateful, boorish family, middle-aged Liverpudlian housewife Shirley Valentine is going to waste in suburban drudgery. But you can’t exactly call her downtrodden. When...
Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola's 19th Century novel Thérèse Raquin comes to the Darwin stage this month in a critically acclaimed play by Melbourne’s Dirty Pretty Theatre. The play follows a young woman...
The Swagman's Ghost
The swagman has appeared under many guises: hero, sheep thief, martyr. Now Darwin playwright Levin Diatschenko offers another version of the fabled itinerant: a travelling mystic who delivers justice and...
Laugh It Off
An annual, carefully curated showcase of local talent, Laugh It Off revels in what it means to be ‘Territorian’ – and, in salutation to Territory Day, there’s a special Territory...
Rope Burn
Two best mates. One gets cancer. Hilarity ensues. Rope burn is a new Australian play by Ava Karuso about friendship, boys and one of humanity's most frightening diseases. Ben and...
Seven Deadly Sinners
Seven of the best NT comedians – and self-confessed sinners – lay bare their wretched souls in the biggest NT comedy show yet. Top End Comedy has come a long...
Mr Stink
"Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well…” This hilarious and heart warming adaptation of David Walliams’...
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
Buckle up, Melbourne Comedy festival is hitting the road to home deliver its freshest and funniest comedic talent. For the price of one ticket you get five comedic acts in...
SPUN: Obsession
When does an interest become an obsession? And what lengths will people go to for the things they love? Find out at this special SPUN live storytelling event presented by...
Q&A with Wil Anderson
Stand-up stalwart Wil Anderson is rocking Darwin for one night only with his new show Critically Wil. Off The Leash caught up with the award-winning comedian, television host and podcaster...
SOAP
Always partial to a good soaking, Darwinites will be dazzled by the splash-filled hit show SOAP. The SOAP experience is a fusion of contemporary circus, comedy and physical theatre in...
Caravan
What do you do when you are more than 60 years old, can't stop dancing and love travelling? Darwin’s legendary senior dance group The Grey Panthers are taking their shimmy...
EmpyRean
Limber up, the Melbourne Ballet Company is returning to the Top End with its exhilarating and critically acclaimed triple-bill EmpyRean. Empyrean: the highest heavenly sphere in medieval cosmology, closest to...
A Doll's House
From Copenhagen 1879 to Darwin 2017, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House has lost none of its power as a bold vision of feminist selfhood and rediscovery. When it hit the...
The Age of Bones
Award winning Darwin playwright Sandra Thibodeaux's latest work is a fantastical Australian-Indonesian production about a boy, Ikan, who goes fishing one day and fails to return. Assuming the worst, Ikan’s...
RAW Comedy: NT Heat
RAW Comedy is the annual hunt for Australia's as yet undiscovered wit – it's where the nation's best and boldest comedy athletes jump in head first and compete for a...
