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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...
SPUN: True Stories Told in the Territory
It's a simple formula – a stage, six people and their stories – but with nine sold out shows in a row, SPUN continues to prove the humble yarn is...
Q&A with Jimmy Barnes
Australian rock icon Jimmy Barnes brings his Working Class Boy Tour to the Top End this March. Most know him from his time as the lead vocalist of Cold Chisel...
Always...Patsy Cline
IN 1963, AT THE AGE OF JUST 30, PATSY CLINE DIED IN A PLANE CRASH, LEAVING BEHIND A BEVY OF BROKEN-HEARTED FANS. What better way to pay tribute to Cline's...
And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Penned by local playwright Kate Wyvill, new play And I’m the Queen of Sheba opens at Brown’s Mart Theatre this month, after a successful reading at the 2015 Darwin Festival...
Peking Opera Festival
Darwin Entertainment Centre is bringing out the big guns for its 30th birthday celebrations! Beijing’s internationally renowned opera ensemble Peking Opera are set to perform two shows, One Good Turn...
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
A poor, justice-seeking, borderline-psychotic takes it upon himself to investigate why nothing is done when a terror suspect 'accidentally' falls from the fourth floor of a police building. His method...
Bill Bailey
He's spread the joy of laughter worldwide through his many roles - including Manny Bianco in English comedy Black Books - and now is your chance to catch funny fella...
An Evening with Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins may be most well-known as a punk icon, namely for his 80s stints in Black Flag and the Rollins Band, but he is also an accomplished writer, producer...
Q&A with Peter Helliar
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Q&A with Yana Alana
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Circa Beyond
THERE IS A LINE BETWEEN HUMAN AND ANIMAL, BETWEEN MADNESS AND SANITY, BETWEEN LOGIC AND DREAM. STEP OVER THIS LINE AND GO BEYOND. Beyond is warm, surreal and unexpectedly moving...
HILLBILLY HORROR - A COMEDY OF TERRORS
PRESENTED BY BROWN’S MART PRODUCTIONS AND THE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE OF JINGILI, something’s rotten in the Cooters’ backwoods cabin – and it’s not just Grandma’s guts. A blood moon’s soon...
MEDIUM – Q&A with Andrew Ross
FOLLOWING LAST YEAR’S MUCH TALKED ABOUT PRODUCTION, CRY JAILOLO, Darwin Festival is again giving local audiences the chance to see the very best of Indonesian contemporary dance in another powerful...
