Features
Postmodern Jukebox: The Grand Reopening Tour
EARLY LAST YEAR, the talented ensemble that is Postmodern Jukebox was gearing up for their global tour, eager to share their pop-jazz fusion with audiences around the world. But just...
A Big Birthday Bash
Whether you remember watching a play as a school student, attending a live music gig or community dance production, almost everybody has memory they hold dear of the adored home...
The Australian Ballet Regional Tour: Ballet Gala
Recent years have been painful for industries across the board. But none quite like the arts, literally brought to its knees with lockdowns, lockouts, distancing laws and venue closures. By...
Sunshine Super Girl
Evonne Goolagong discovered a love of tennis as a young girl, hitting a ball against the tin wall of her family home. The girl from the bush who dared to...
Waŋa: Spirit
At the moment of death, according to YolÅu, waÅa (spirit) takes a journey that follows the sunset and the morning star back to the east, where it is meant to...
The Boy Who talked to Dogs
We all know the back in my day tales of the punitive schooling system. Kids being caned for favouring their left hand, or humiliated for an insignificant misdemeanour. The lucky...
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin’s had a colourful, varied career. He’s gone from hitting the piano keys in comical YouTube clips back in the day, to sharing the screen with David Duchovny in...
Goodness Grey-cious
Make tracks to the sweet little tropical town of Batchelor, about an hour south of Darwin, for Coomalie Cabaret – an exciting showcase of talent from Tracks Dance Company’s much-loved...
Ross Noble
Science has proven laughter can induce a zen-like state, like meditation. Can contemplation, reflection and self-discovery be achieved by thinking every and all the thoughts at once? Who knows and...
Urzila Carlson
We’ve been waiting a long time for this. Award-winning Kiwi-South African comedian Urzila Carlson returns to the Top End with her hilarious new show, It’s Personal. Tierney Seccull caught up...
Trash Magic
RUBY IS A YOUNG girl who is deaf, and she and her family have embarked on a camping trip to the Northern Territory. Trash Magic is presented in black light...
The Sapphires
Put yourself in Lorinda Merrypor’s shoes of yesteryear. A young Indigenous kid growing up in Rockhampton, Queensland, harnessing a deep burning love for musical theatre with nothing but her telly...
Swan Lake
Ballet in the desert? Not what you’d assume to be a thriving option for Territorians. By Hannah Muir “Every day someone asks me if there’s ballet in the NT and...
Golden Years of Brown's Mart
Brown’s Mart Theatre is a beloved local treasure, making valued deposits to the memory banks of thousands of locals and visitors over the years. This year, Brown’s Mart goes gold...
Chasing the Moon
FROM DEBUSSY’S CLAIR DE LUNE, to David Bowie’s ‘Star Man’, the moon has long been the object of inspiration for artists. In Tracks Dance latest work, Chasing the Moon, three...
Falling
SLIDE YOUTH DANCE Theatre’s first offering for 2022 aims to bring laughter to students of all ages and make them smile, with humorous and human dance theatre piece, Falling. By...
Funny Territory
BY GEORGE THIS year is flying past. May already? That’s not even funny. Something that is funny about May, however, is that the 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is...
Jarradah Gooragulli Dance of the Brolgas
“THROUGH DANCE, PROSE and music, Aboriginal people can reflect upon themselves as spirits in a wide world, like the Brolgas who travel from different countries to find a mate, helping...
Hush
Hush is the first exciting full-length work penned by local actor and writer, Ciella Williams. It tells the story of Nina, whose waters have broken at 23 weeks, just one...
ON by Circa
CIRCA CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS has earned its stripes as one of the world’s leading performance companies, wowing audiences from the far corners of the world with their high level of skill...
