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New Babylon
What could the world look like one day if we don’t take action on climate change? One of the country’s leading playwrights, Stephen Carleton, let his imagination loose on this...
Comics' Corner - Deadly Darwin Comedy
Deadly Darwin Comedy hits the stage this month with new show, A Time to Celebrate, presented at Brown’s Mart Theatre as part of the First Nations Engage Program. 2021 is...
A Comedy Convoy
GET READY TO giggle as the cream of the country’s comedy crop descends on Darwin to deliver one hilarious night of entertainment. After a one-year forced hiatus thanks to COVID...
Evening Reads Fat Pig
Brown Mart's Theatre's monthly script-in-hand play reading series, Evening Reads, returns this month, giving Top End audiences the chance to experience plays not normally available to them and acting as...
The Gospel According to Paul
The Gospel According to Paul is a funny, insightful and occasionally poignant portrait of Paul Keating, the man that – as he tells it – single-handedly shaped contemporary Australia. Written...
Comics' Corner - Local Comedy Form Guide - Part 2
SHOWCASING TOP END COMICS AND LOCAL STAND-UP PERFORMERS A COMEDY RENAISSANCE is taking place in the Top End, and 2021 is shaping up to be an exciting time to catch...
Oyster Boy
OYSTER BOY LIVES inside an oyster. Portrayed by Kyle Walmsley, he is a big fishy weirdo just waiting to be shucked. But is the world ready for his nutrient rich...
SECRETS Revealed on Stage
ONE OF SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre’s most powerful and heartfelt productions, SECRETS, is returning to the stage for NT Youth Week to portray the devastating impact of drug addiction. By...
Comics' Corner - Local Comedy Form Guide
A COMEDY RENAISSANCE is taking place in the Top End, and 2021 is shaping up to be an exciting time to catch comedy. Will Crawford’s put together this handy form...
The G.O at Corro: Meet Zoe!
LEADING ONE OF Australia’s premier youth arts organisations is a huge undertaking, but luckily Corrugated Iron Youth Arts (CIYA) has found the perfect person. Introducing new Executive Producer, Zoe Scrogings...
Highway of Lost Hearts
A WOMAN. A DOG. A CAMPERVAN. And 4,500km of wide-open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe –...
Searching for Spirits
By Tamara Howie “IN THE MOST basic sense, I speak to dead people,” says psychic medium, author and speaker, Peter Williams, admitting it’s a bit of a crude way to...
Comics' Corner - 2020
2020 HAS BEEN a wild ride, but it’s sure seen an explosion of heart-warming comedy in the Top End. Will Crawford writes about the year that was. In March, pre-Rona...
What's Your Brown's Mart Story?
BROWN’S MART THEATRE is gearing up to turn the big 5-0 in 2022, so they’re spending the next year compiling your fond memories to roll out a nine-month celebration when...
Twelfth Night
Darwin Theatre Company has joined forces with Tainted Theatre Company to present Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, Twelfth Night, at Brown’s Mart Theatre. Shipwrecked identical twins, Viola and Sebastian, each believe the...
The Bright Side of the Tracks
LOCAL FAVOURITE TRACKS Dance has done well to roll with the punches in 2020. With all of the risk assessments worked through at length in strategic planning sessions past, a...
A Year on DEC
There’s no denying it – 2020 has thrown us all one heck of a curve ball. The performing arts industry has been impacted significantly by the pandemic, with the sudden...
A Silver Legacy
The Northern Territory is a creative powerhouse of story, song, dance and visual art. For 25 years, Artback NT has been on a mission to nurture and share this richness...
Comics' Corner - Richard Fejo
LOCAL COMEDIAN, MC and Larrakia man Richard Fejo is responsible for some of the newest comic initiatives popping up in Darwin. Will Crawford caught up with him to shoot the...
SLIDE into this Double Bill
SLIDE YOUTH DANCE Theatre’s Dancers Co-Op and Company Two return to Darwin Entertainment Centre this month to present, not one, but two huge stage productions to round out 2020. In...
