My Melbourne Arts

Maitreyi Karanth began her stand-up career in her 40s. Now the 53-year-old Indian comedian has made her Melbourne International Comedy Festi...

Maitreyi Karanth’s journey to comedy has proven that it’s never too late to chase your passions, make people laugh, and leave a lasting mark...

For twelve years now, I’ve been publishing my favourite theatre of the year. It started as a simple best-of list and slowly became my ritual...

It’s the year 2077 and it’s been fifty years since a meteor wiped out every comedian on earth. Every single one. Except one. Con Coutis. And...

How do you describe Alex Hines' new show Putting On A Show? It's about the trauma of being locked in a McDonalds freezer as a child...

Lucky number 13. That's how many festival shows Australian comedian Daniel Connell had to make before I saw one of his shows, and I pick...

Bonnie Tangey works in biotech as a scientist developing lab-grown meat, or as she prefers to call it cured meat, because it sounds more pos...

Lewis Garnham has been watching the world around him and thinking about the daily interactions he has with others. His show Choosing The Wro...

Elliot McClaren is an indigenous queer man who grew up in an abusive, criminal environment and became addicted to drugs and alcohol by the a...

The lights dim and the audience eagerly awaits Oliver Coleman to appear on stage, and he does appear. But at the back of the room. Wearing a...

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Diana Nguyen decided to go for a walk to clear her head. Sounds reasonable. Except Diana took it a ste...

Tom Walker starts his show with incisive questions. To be more specific, that's what he says the review should open with as he is gettin...

It's not often you go to a 50-minute show and have a comedian open up for the main act. But that's what happened in Still Dry White ...

Having missed Gillian Cosgriff’s award-winning show Actually, Good at last year's Comedy Festival, it was with anticipated relief to le...

The daily grind of the office job. It's not easy. In Microsoft Orifice , John Glover stares down the barrel of a staple gun as he vents ...

Bronwyn Kuss is ready to get straight to the point. There's no time for niceties or pleasantries with her stand-up show Pillows xxxx as ...

Sean Collier is a 26-year-old white, straight man from New Zealand and he has plenty to say. This is mainly about how screwed up his life is...

Do opposites really attract? That's something that Callum Straford is testing with his experimental stand-up, clown and musical comedy c...

With Heart of Darkness , half-Greek half-Italian Anthony Locascio shares the worst things he’s ever done and by comparison, to make us all f...

When Nicolette Minster googled herself, she discovered that according to NetWorths Ranks she is a 6ft, 30 year old worth $15 million, someth...