Features
Girls with Altitude
International Women’s Day may be done and dusted for the year, but we are far from finished celebrating our young female leads. They can lead a country, they can fight...
Get distracted with The Umbilical Brothers
SINCE THE LATE 80s, David Collins (pictured left) and Shane Dundas have been making audiences belly laugh as comic duo The Umbilical Brothers – their quick wit, impressive sound effects...
2021 NT Performing Arts Awards
On Fri 12 Nov, the third annual NT Performing Arts Awards (NTPAA) were held at Darwin Entertainment Centre to celebrate the Territory's booming performing arts industry. Identifying a lack of...
Making Fresh Tracks
MAKE TRACKS TO Brown’s Mart this month to enjoy some of the hottest new Territory dance, as part of Tracks Dance Company’s development program, Fresh Tracks. Offering a platform for...
Magic that Moves
IT’S A ROMANTIC coming-of-age tale that never fails to capture hearts – a sympathetic heroine, a dashing prince, magic, pumpkins, ball gowns and, of course, a wicked stepmother and a...
FUNdaMENTAL
ENJOY CIRCUS? YEP. Love comedy? Ah-huh. Delight in chatting about the big things in life? Sure. Imagine a skilled juggler rattling off one-liners, dissecting ancient Greek philosophy and discussing if...
Evening Reads – The Complete Works of Wilhemina Baker
WILHELMINA BAKER’S MUM is doing her best as a single parent trying to keep her kids out of trouble. But she’s struggling. The neighbours are reporting them up to no...
When Lives Collide
IMAGINE THIS. You’re sitting on a shuttle bus on your way to the airport. Perhaps you’re a bit anxious about running late or maybe you’re thinking about the people you...
Comics' Corner – October 2021
For those that haven’t seen Russel ‘Rusty Rhubarb’ Smith on stage, it’s a wild experience. Rusty has a cast of a thousand personas within, one of the most eccentric and...
Iphigenia in Splott – Evening Reads
Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am, Effie’s the kind of the girl you’d studiously avoid making eye contact with. But in Welsh playwright Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, this...
Animal Farm
When a group of farm animals have had jack of humans running the show, they decide to take things into their own hands, revolting against the self-serving greed of humans...
Comics' Corner - Ty Gray
With an elfish and cheeky younger brother vibe, Ty Gray charms with his well crafted one liners and loveable anecdotes. He’s what Billy Connolly would be like if he was...
The G.O at Corro: Sep 2021
By Johanna Hayes WE’VE BEEN ALL about collaboration at Corrugated Iron, lately. Kicking off Darwin Festival opening weekend with four standing ovations (naw, shucks!) I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You...
Bechamel Test - Evening Reads
BROWN’S MART’S SCRIPT-IN-HAND play reading series is back this month with a brand-new work by local playwright Danielle Aquilina. By Cj Fraser-Bell Danielle might be a familiar face to OTL...
Dancing to Happiness
ART HAS AN incredible way of traversing the globe, breaking free from the confines of borders to reach out and impact another, miles away. And when one creative force joins...
Our Creative Territory
On a hot and sweaty Wet season evening of December 2019, the inaugural Northern Territory Performing Arts Awards (NTPAA) were held within the air-conditioned walls of Brown’s Mart Theatre. Six...
Comics' Corner – August 2021
It's August, Dry season is in full swing and the old social calendar’s filling up. If you’ve got time to spare and are keen to support local, Darwin comedians have...
Hamlet Prince of Skidmark
Understanding the world of Shakespeare might be a bit of a stretch for kids aged five and over, but Richard Higgins and Matt Kelly – aka The Listies – have...
Celtic Illusion Reimagined
Since the heyday of Riverdance, you might have developed a bit of a soft spot for Irish dancing. But imagine combining those precise, foot-stomping rhythms with Vegas glamour, dynamic modern...
Seasons of Skin and Bark
Breaking free from the walls of a room and relocating to outdoor spaces to present original dance works is something Tracks Dance Company is renowned for, their works often influenced...
