10 top end comedians are preparing to walk comedy’s ultimate highwire. Presented by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, RAW Comedy is the annual hunt for Australia’s as yet undiscovered wit...
Darwin based stand up and archaeologist KC Martin-Stone (aka KC Monica) represented the NT at the Adelaide Fringe Festival last month. Off The Leash columnist Will Crawford had a chat...
Following a popular season in Darwin in 2016 Artback NT and The Royal National Theatre of Jingili take Hillbilly Horror down the Stuart Highway this March. Something’s rotten in the...
The holidays are over, the demoulding rituals complete and New Year’s dietary resolutions made and jettisoned – now is the time to venture into the world and explore the cultural...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...