One of the highlights of the Sydney Comedy Fest running till 19 May 2019 is always Theatresports®. For those who don’t know, Theatresports® is an improv competition where a director or the audience provide input for the improv scenes and…
Fans of Shakespeare, I’m sorry to break it to you: you might not think the same way about The Bard after you see Gillian English’s new show, 10 Things I Hate About The Taming of The Shrew. English brings her…
Irish comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog made their Sydney Comedy Festival debut at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville with a performance that brought the house down. CRAIC-LING, as its name suggests, is great craic. It’s a fast-paced sketch comedy…
2019 rolled in with resolutions of hard work and achievement and, needless to say, we’re already slightly behind schedule. Overhearing a colleague look at the calendar and say that hated phrase ‘April already! Where has the time gone?!’ was a…
KING, a collaboration between director/choreographer Shaun Parker and Bulgarian songwriter/vocalist Ivo Dimchev, is a tender, visceral experience exploring ideas of masculinity in a way that’s equally entertaining and confronting. The heart of the piece is the interplay between the magnetic…
For one day only, Three Bottle Man, in partnership with some of Tassie’s best producers, will transform part of Bulletin Place laneway. Expect multiple stalls of Tasmania’s best wine and spirits, interspersed with live oyster shucking, cheese stations, food stalls,…
While there’s a ton of great things about Summer in Sydney – there’s one especially fabulous one: Electric Gardens Festival. This Australia Day, the music festival returned to Sydney’s Centennial Parklands for a massive day of drinks, dancing, and pyrotechnics…
Rolling Loud sold out in 38 minutes. Rolling Loud is widely touted as the world’s largest Hip Hop Festival. While it started in the States back in 2015, this year was the first time creators Matt Zingler and Tariz Cherif…
Directed by acclaimed performer Moira Ficune, Shanghai Mimi transforms the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta into a Shanghai cabaret club in the 1930s. Ficune brings a seductive performance of glitter and gold, with a generous dash of sparkling sequins for the…
Every now and then, a show comes along that blows all your preconceptions out of the water. ‘Pigalle’ is one of those shows. A cabaret-circus-music-burlesque extravaganza, it’s the centrepiece of Sydney Festival‘s Festival Gardens programming in Hyde Park. We’re huge fans…