Last laugh: the best shows at the last week of the Sydney Comedy Festival

a stage with a crowd of people watching

Time is running out to join the fun at Sydney’s biggest celebration of comedy at it enters its last week. To help you decide what to book, we’ve selected the best shows on during the last week of the Sydney Comedy Festival. We’ve seen it all during the past three weeks: epic gala nights, drunken … Read more

The Other Art Fair Sydney opens tonight: these are the six artists to watch

The Other Art Fair Sydney opens today at White Bay Cruise Terminal

From this Thursday, May 8, The Other Art Fair Sydney will pitch up at White Bay Cruise Terminal. These are the artists to look out for. From Melbourne to London to Dallas, The Other Art Fair opens the elitist art industry up to the masses with Art Battles, tattooing, immersive installations, a ceramics edit (new … Read more

Laughs and laneways: what we thought of the inaugural Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl

Ray Badrun was one of the comedians who performed at the inaugural Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl on Tuesday, May 6.

New for this year, the Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawls have already sold out, signalling huge appetite for the concept. We went along to the first one to find out what it’s all about. On Tuesday night, we went to Sydney Comedy Festival’s (SCF) inaugural Comedy Crawl, part of the festival’s 20th anniversary. The premise … Read more

Natalie Bassingthwaighte will lead Shirley Valentine in its limited four-day run in Sydney

Shirley Valentine theatre production

Willy Russell’s heartwarming and hilarious one-woman play Shirley Valentine has been a hit with audiences ever since it premiered in Liverpool in 1986. Since then, it’s gone on to play on Broadway and the West End, has won numerous Olivier Awards and Tonys, and was even adapted for the big screen. It’s a one-character performance … Read more