Features
Comics' Corner – Dec/Jan
Comedy, like all art, is subjective in its appeal. Unlike other art forms, however, comedy seeks to elicit a particular and visceral response from its audience: the involuntary diaphragmatic spasm...
The Territory's Own Comedy Debate 2.0
The Territory’s Own Comedy Debate returns for a hilarious showdown that sets Darwin’s best comedians against each other over two nights. Comedy Debate 2.0 isn’t your standard comedy night, it’s...
Suicide in B-flat
A jazz great disappears. The outline of his body haunts the stage. The city is on edge and the musicians are restless. The keystone cops are on the case, but...
Multicultural Karaoke
A unique celebration of the cultural and linguistic diversity in our city, Darwin’s first-ever multicultural Karaoke competition is here. Karaoke, translated into English as ‘empty orchestra’, is a global phenomenon...
CANCELLED – La Boheme and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DARWIN SCREENINGS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED. No need to dress up and spend the big bucks for a night at one of the world’s best opera houses...
The Magic of Dance
With her full-time students and guest artists recently returned from three weeks of international master classes in Prague, Leisa’s School of Dance, in conjunction with Duprada Dance Company, presents two...
Mana Wahine
Women’s power, authority and spirit are celebrated in this contemporary dance work from Aotearoa. Acclaimed Maori Dance Company Okareka are stopping off in Darwin on their international tour of this...
The Daly River Girl
Tessa Rose’s debut play is a compelling personal story of hardship, love and resilience. Following an extensive career in acting and dance across Australia, Rose has put pen to paper...
SPUN: Rewind
The Territory’s only live storytelling night is returning this Build Up with a special event that turns back the clock to reveal six decades’ worth of stories in one cracking...
Comics' Corner – November
Comedy comes in a myriad of different colours and fabrics, but amongst the great haberdashery of comic styles, there is a science that underpins the techniques a comedian uses to...
The Last 5 Years
Darwin performance artists Stuart Fong and Andi Egan discovered they had a shared passion for musical theatre and, noticing a gap in the Darwin scene, got their own ball rolling...
Bedroom Farce
Four couples, three bedrooms, one night and a hilarious evening of theatre where nobody gets any sex and hardly anybody gets any sleep. This is British playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy...
Diary of a Wombat
There wouldn’t be many Aussie kids born after 2002 that haven’t read this classic picture book. Now the true story of Mothball the very cheeky wombat comes to laughter-filled life...
Q&A with Arj Barker
Australia’s favourite American comedian is bringing his latest show Organic, brimming with free-range hilarity, to Darwin audiences this month. Off The Leash caught up with Barker ahead of his visit...
Review – Man Made
I have been working with Tracks Dance for the past 13 years over four Darwin Festival shows and six Milpirri performances in the remote Indigenous community of Lajamanu. Man Made...
Comics' Corner – Humanely Hilarious: the Ethics of Comedy
I was recently asked in an interview how comedians can make jokes about tragic or serious things and live with themselves? Tough opening question, but while the late Joan Rivers...
Comics' Corner – September
The curtains have fallen on the Darwin Festival and Hanuman has cleaned off the last ghee splatter from its bamboo kitchen but, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of...
The Beat Festival
It's where countless Territorians have got their musical start – including Jessica Mauboy, whose appearances at The Beat Festival included a featured solo performance. The annual Beat Festival began in...
The Merchant of Venice
Bell Shakespeare’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice takes the play’s action from 16th century Venice to a contemporary setting, and the themes of religious prejudice, forgiveness and...
In Between Two
When Joel ma was a kid, the matriarch of his family was his Chinese-Australian grandmother Edith. A born-again Christian, she would hold him close before their ritual family yumcha and...
