Showcasing Top End comics and local stand-up performers By Will Crawford Laugh It Off With the Darwin Festival over, you might have thought that the only entertainment left until the...
A full-length classical ballet production will bring to life the charming fairy tale of Cinderella. By Isabella Mellios The Victorian State Ballet is bringing a stellar cast to Darwin as...
It's rare to see Science Fiction on stage, rather than in the pages of a book or on the silver screen. By Tamara Howie But screen writer and now playwright...
Darwin Entertainment Centre is comedy central this October with some of the biggest names in comedy set to hit the stage. Bill Bailey returns to the Top End, following his...
Duck out of the build up heat and into the steamy streets of France at the Paris Underground Cabaret. By Tamara Howie Co-creator and director Richard Vegas says the show...
The Taiwan-Australia Indigenous artists in residence program presents a unique opportunity for cultural exchange between First Nations artists. Nhulunbuy dancer Rachael Wallis recently travelled to Rinari, Taiwan, to undertake a...
Brutus us suspicious. Cassius is conspiring. Caesar's days are numbered. by Isabella Mellios Loved by the people, Caesar’s power is growing – which is dangerous if you live in a...
Get ready to Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! by Isabella Mellios The Wiggles’ brand-new, record-breaking show is heading to Darwin with the whole gang, including Emma, Lachy, Anthony, Simon, Dorothy the Dinosaur,...
It's going to be a pretty surreal experience for year 11 singer songwriter Phoebe Wear to hear her music performed by more than 300 peers at this year’s Beat Festival...
Award winning producer, comedian, musician and former radio presenter Nicole Stevens recently took out the People’s Choice Award for her show at the Darwin Fringe Festival. Darwin has a staggering...
DARWIN FESTIVAL FUNNIES By Will Crawford It’s August and the lure of Hanuman dinners and cool breezes at Festival Park is strong. The hypnotic call of the comedy sirens catch...
Joel Bray grew up as a queer, light-skinned Aboriginal in a country town and never felt like he quite fit in. By Tamara Howie Bray turned those feelings of displacement...
Canadian artist Anita Rochon is obsessed with the weather and a good challenge – so she created a show with a touring party of zero, finding local actors to perform...
The sports field meets the dance floor at Darwin Festival for Tracks Dance’s latest production. In Your Blood looks across generations, cultures and sporting codes to find what makes people...
It’s the story that gripped – and divided – the nation. By Tamara Howie An infant snatched by a dingo. Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, trialled by the media and jailed...
A show described as “storytelling through performance art, spoken word, documentary, cabaret and neo-burlesque vignettes” is a little difficult to imagine, but that’s what Nel Da Silva is bringing to...
From a young emerging hip-hop artist to a seniors dance troupe, Tracks Dance Company is staging a diverse show at the Darwin Fringe Festival. By Kylie Stevenson Now in its...
Audiences will be transported from a darkened Darwin theatre to Dublin’s underbelly in an intimate one-man monologue that explores the fringes of society. By Kylie Stevenson Award-winning playwright and actor...
You might think a person who once spent 18 hours on trains to get to an acting class would be sick of them, but writer and actor Tremayne Gordon has...
Corrugated Iron’s contribution to this year’s Fringe Festival will be a bit of a juggling act, with the Top End youth arts organisation staging two very different shows. Corrosion sets...