Gillian Cosgriff is hilarious. Her show ‘This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ is Cosgriff’s exploration of her feelings and review of her decisions as she careens towards her 30s, or in her words, ‘adulthood’. We didn’t stop laughing the whole…
While I’m very aware of my privileged life here in inner-city Melbourne, the daily struggle with FOMO (fear of missing out) experienced by Kendall and Tiffany from The Melbourne Cabaret Festival’s show #FirstWorldWhiteGirls hit a cord with me. I too…
Returning from a successful run at last year’s Fringe Festival and a highly acclaimed run at Perth Fringe World, ‘The Point of Light‘ is back at the Butterfly Club for a short, slick, and crowd-wowing run. It is a cheeky…
Returning for its sixth year, the Melbourne Cabaret Festival has shaped up to be one of the city’s major winter art events, an incubator for local talent with a sprinkling of stellar international artists. Running from Tuesday 14 until Sunday…
David Carlin’s music has always had a streak of exhibitionism to it, which seems odd to say given that his musical stories are (I truly hope) 100% fictive. I last saw him perform on his guitar a year ago at…
Diana Nguyen’s ‘Naked‘ is a little gem of a show. Perfect for an after work pick-me-up, the 5.30pm start gives you just enough time to get out of work, get to The Butterfly Club, get your glass of SSB, and get…
Old-timey radio shows are my jam. So when I saw Radio Variety Hour was playing, I knew it was one of my must-see shows at the Comedy Festival. What’s more fun than watching a radio play come to life, complete with…
Improv comedy is one of my all-time favourite things to go to. At university, I sometimes went up to two or three times a week during a brief heyday. So it’s with great authority that I can recommend The Big…
Eileen Williams is a delightful character, and her show ‘Irrelevant’ is anything but what the title suggests. With Eileen having to take the mantle of her husband’s bigoted campaign in front of a crowd of people she was unprepared to…
You could kick off your night in no better way than to listen in on the daft rumination of Nick Bottom, a minor character from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as portrayed by Melbourne comic actor Alan Lovett in ‘Bottom’s Dream’….