The Confidence Artist promises to help us discover such skills as the secret of telling a good lie and how to cheat at cards without getting caught. In typical magician style, Nicholas J. Johnson doesn’t really teach us those things….
Win a $300 Amazing Adult Magic Pack – enter now! Win a $250 Fantastic Family Magic Pack – enter now! Have you discovered magic yet? The Melbourne Magic Festival has been bringing together some of the world’s best performers in…
A Welshman, a Scotsman and an Englishman walked into a theatre. It sounds like the start of a joke but, if the theatre is the beautiful Forum in Melbourne and the men are Lloyd Langford, Stuart Mitchell and Greg Burns,…
Comedians seem to constantly gripe about their love lives, so would it be smart to date one? It seems unlikely, but the process could be fun to watch, especially if it’s even less real than reality TV and has a…
Across the corridor from the Blind Dating Show Spectacular in the Melbourne Town Hall is another TV-inspired show, the much more intellectual Late Night Letters and Numbers. The Comedy Festival version of this SBS classic included two mainstays of the…
The Big HOO-HAA! is a fast, boisterous improv collective. Two teams of three, called the Hearts and the Bones, compete to entertain us in a number of games. It is up to us, the audience, to steer the course of…
Dave O’Neil has been a fixture of the Aussie comedy scene for longer than I dare remember, with numerous appearances on TV and radio as well as live shows. His latest venture, The Summer of ’82, takes us back to…
Jimeoin was, yet again, a delight. Words, laughter, mumbling, poking out his tongue, or even just a glance — he can use any of these to set the whole audience laughing. Jimeoin relies on the everyday for his humour. Sometimes,…
Kirsty Webeck obviously likes to have a yarn, especially about herself and her family. Using self-deprecating humour, she meanders from the benefits of being mistaken for a growing boy to the hazards of being observed by pets during romantic encounters….
Nestled within an immense covering of drab scaffolding in King St, the entrance to the Australian Institute of Music seemed like a tiny speck of light. The inside of the historic former Melbourne Wool Exchange building was a massive contrast:…