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'Garry Starr: Classic Penguins' at The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe 2025. A photoshopped image of a fair-skinned man with curly black hair and a neat beard wearing an orange-coloured Elizabethan ruff. His arms from the elbows down, and his body from the waist down, have been photoshopped to appear like a penguin. He leans on his left flipper and sits on his left penguin hip, his orange penguin feet and right flipper raised.

Performance reviews: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins and Thunderstuck: A Night of Classic Rock, Adelaide Fringe 2025

From brilliant, in-your-face clowning to contemporary dance performed to a virtuosic live violin score of rock classics, two fascinating but…

Richard Watts

Feb 24, 2025

Features

The art of musical comedy

When you add music to your stand-up, you can take your shows to a whole other level...

Daniel Herborn

Feb 20, 2025

A drag queen dressed in a suited skirt combo, holding onto an old- fashioned phone and sitting on a desk.

Performance review: Confessions of a Drag Queen Accountant, Skye Scraper, His Majesty's Theatre, FRINGE WORLD

A dynamic evening of salacious storytelling.

Tinashe Jakwa

Feb 17, 2025

Workshops

QTouring

QShowcase: Arts Market + Conference

Join presenters, producers and artists from across Queensland at the QShowcase: Arts Market + Conference.

Queensland

9 Jun - 11 Jun 2025

Performances & Gigs

The Art House

An Evening Without Kate Bush

A celebration of all things Kate Bush in a one-woman theatrical comedy-cabaret.

New South Wales

8 May - 8 May 2025

Rory O'Neill as Panti Bliss in THISISPOPBABY's 'If These Wigs Could Talk'. A 56-year-old drag queen in a blonde wig and grey dress gestures emphatically mid-speech. A neon sign of the word 'Panti' is visible behind her.

Features

Panti Bliss on fighting fascism, changing culture and the art of drag

Rory O’Neill, aka Irish drag star Panti Bliss, discusses career longevity and how standing up to the far right inspired…

Richard Watts

Feb 9, 2025

Performances & Gigs

Darwin Entertainment Centre

Lube Me Alone | Vanessa Larry Mitchell

Vanessa Larry Mitchell returns with more hilarious dating fails, single parenting chaos, and outrageous stories that should never be heard…

Darwin

7 Jun - 7 Jun 2025

Performances & Gigs

Darwin Entertainment Centre

Teardrops On My Dildo | Vanessa Larry Mitchell

Vanessa Larry Mitchell returns to Darwin for a hilarious, edgy performance on parenting, dating, and life. A wild ride of…

Darwin

6 Jun - 6 Jun 2025

A bald man with a beard is wearing a white t-shirt. An array of different coloured scarves are drapped over his shoulder.

Performance review: The Hanky Code, FRINGE WORLD

What does a hanky have to do with your sexual journey?

Ann Foo

Feb 3, 2025

A brunette woman, Nikki Justice, in a wedding dress carrying a bouquet of roses. Behind her are some tombstones.

Comedy review: 1 & a 1/2 Weddings & a Funeral, FRINGE WORLD

Raw, confessional humour by an ex-stripper raised in a religious household.

Tiffany Barton

Jan 30, 2025

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