Aridhi Anderson is a theatremaker, performer and reviewer based in Melbourne. Check out her work at aridhianderson.com.
Pisca is a heart-warming cabaret about a playful duck who loves life. There are many unique and quirky offerings at the ... [more]
Kieran Boyd and Derek Wilson came together at Melbourne Fringe 2019 to perform Tandem, which they describe as a "solo sk... [more]
It took Sunanda Sachatrakul 27 years to come out to herself as gay, but ever since she's worked it out there's been no l... [more]
Happy-Go-Wrong by Andi Snelling is an autobiographical, semi-abstract, solo physical theatre work about living with an i... [more]
Five South Asian performers. Stories pieced together from interviews with over 100 South Asian people of varying backgro... [more]
Nine improvisors, four chairs, zero scripts, and a generous supply of creativity at The Burrow in Fitzroy. Will It Juice... [more]
Ace and Bubs Corchoran have a dead body. They've been given strict instructions about how to dispose of it. But they don... [more]
In an upper-middle-class home in Fitzroy, a family prepares for Christmas. Everything seems picture-perfect: the house i... [more]
Lion Heart Dance Company's latest show Clash is playing at Chapel off Chapel from September 6-8. It consists of two dist... [more]
Indigenous archaeologist Dr Jacqueline Black has unearthed a mass grave in an "inconvenient" outback location, and her n... [more]
A gifted playwright, an ambitious director and an Oscar-winning actor come together to work on a promising new productio... [more]
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for drama and nominated for ten Tony Awards, Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondhe... [more]
Combining sketch comedy, satire, storytelling, mime, psychology/education, and a whole lot more, Helping Hands by A_tist... [more]
My Dearworthy Darling (written by Alison Croggon, directed and designed by The Rabble) is an abstract, poetic, and inten... [more]
May Contain Traces of Reading by Mitchell E Roberts is an unusual stand up comedy show: it's full of words, yet (almost)... [more]
Anyone who's used a dating app to try to find love in 2019 knows that it can be a bizarre and unsettling world out there... [more]
The 2019 YIRRAMBOI Festival (YIRRAMBOI means 'tomorrow' in the languages of the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung peoples) was ... [more]
Over the last several years, Damian Callinan has toured all over Australia with his one man show The Merger (which has a... [more]
UK comedian Paul Savage finds humour in the unlikeliest of places - the Bible and his Baptist church background (his fat... [more]
The Motherf**ker With The Hat, presented by Lab Theatre in association with Aleksander Vass and Vass Productions at Alex... [more]
Mindful-mess by Medicated Panic Dream Girls was a sweet, light-hearted sketch comedy show about mental health, millennia... [more]
Social media superstar Kanan Gill's Comedy Festival show Teetar was a blast of nostalgia for his Indian audience in Melb... [more]
What does it take to become a comedian? Stuart Daulman's Masterclass at the Comedy Festival was an uncomfortably realist... [more]
Two men meet in a deserted place in a chance encounter after dark. But is it really a chance encounter? One man believes... [more]
John Green and Rakhesh Martyn are British comedians who have travelled to and lived in a number of different places incl... [more]
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is Australia's biggest annual comedy event and is an excellent time not only... [more]
Most people think their lives are interesting till they meet someone at a party telling some truly crazy stories. And th... [more]
Comedians are known to run into trouble from time to time for joking about sensitive topics: religion, politics, controv... [more]
The Breast of the Fest is a showcase-style comedy event at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, running every ni... [more]
Reeni Inosha is a Sri Lankan Buddhist, raised in Australia according to Sri Lankan cultural practices and customs, while... [more]
Mark Gambino is Grazie Fibonacci, a sketch comedian with wit, charisma, and a very versatile wardrobe. In his comedy fes... [more]
Sam Campbell and Paul Williams have teamed up this Comedy Festival to put on a show called Australian Vs New Zealand Mag... [more]
A comedian dies on stage mid-performance and joins a small band of ghosts that inhabit the theatre. These ghosts are doo... [more]
West Side Story (written by Arthur Laurents) is one of the most celebrated Broadway musicals of all time, and there are ... [more]
Charlie Ranger is Fishlace Jones, self-proclaimed king of independent theatre, and he's back at the Melbourne Internatio... [more]
The Comedy Festival might seem like an unusual place for booklovers and reading nerds to seek out a space that feels lik... [more]
Sumit Anand's show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Nothing About Godzilla, delivers what it promises: ze... [more]
When was the last time you questioned something that was taught to you as a fact, as a given? Ben Preston has been quest... [more]
Claire Ford and Nicky Wilkinson are The Kagools, a multi-award winning physical comedy duo from the UK. Their new show C... [more]
Denouement (written and produced by James Hazelden & Nicholas Rasche, directed by James Hazelden) is playing at La Mama ... [more]
Victoria Falconer, Tessa Waters, Rowena Hutson, Laura Frew and Sharnema Nougar come together in Fringe Wives Club: Glitt... [more]
When a comedy show begins with a young knight performing a striptease on stage next to a double bass, you know you're in... [more]
Damien Warren-Smith is Garry Starr, a jack of all trades actor, dancer, singer, clown, stuntman, etc (is there anything ... [more]
Tanya Losanno is an Italian stand-up comedian from Canberra who brings us a very funny and moving show about her experie... [more]
Flat Pack: Space Force is a sketch comedy show by Ella Lawry, Georgie Daniels, Isabelle Knight, Madi Savage and Millie H... [more]
Elyce Phillips, Gamze Kirik and Donna Collins are Sweet Potatoes (even if Kirik and Collins aren't fans of the sweet pot... [more]
Sophie Smyth and Ryan Smedley are on the autism spectrum (they have Asperger's), and they tell us what life is like for ... [more]
Luke Morris' show Love, Sweat and Science at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is a combination of stand up, c... [more]
Amy Hetherington is in Melbourne for the Comedy Festival as the Northern Territory's ambassador, to persuade us all to m... [more]
Things are going well for Geraldine Hickey. Work, finances, real estate, bird shows, theme parks, mushroom hunting (even... [more]
Paul Noodle PhD. Candidate (Jacob Sacher and Jack McGorlick, with Sandro Falce on tech) is a Melbourne-based comedy team... [more]
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is the cornerstone of all major modern explorations into vampire fantasy and has been r... [more]
Performers dressed as poodles, idiosyncratic projections and overpowering pinkness: Glory by Phillip Adams BalletLab is ... [more]
Cris Clare is young man recovering from a mysterious illness in Suffolk. He lives alone, but has access to a supportive ... [more]
Tourism organisation Visit Ballarat is bringing the best of the region to Melbourne's CBD with the Made of Ballarat Pop-... [more]
Still Frame is Lion Heart Dance Company's first major show of 2019, consisting of two works: Without Words choreographed... [more]
Skeleton Tree (created and choreographed by Stephanie Lake) is a powerful collection of dance pieces on the themes of de... [more]
Ingrid Roberts is stuck. She's been in her current job and in her current relationship for a long time, and things are b... [more]
The Yellow Wallpaper (directed by Laurence Strangio, performed by Annie Thorold) is a short play based on a 19th century... [more]
The multi award-winning international blockbuster musical Jersey Boys is playing at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne for ... [more]