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4 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Donna Demaio |Guy Webster |Hannah Francis |Lefa Singleton Norton |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair | +2 more
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
beat.com.au | Tyson Wray
Words by Staff Writer The themed bars that Melbourne needs and probably already has... 1. The Hottest 100 Bar: where everyone complains about what’s playing on the jukebox even though they didn’t put a dollar in. 2. The Chopper Bar: where no cash is kept on premises. 3. The Weezer Bar: where the night starts off great but then turns really fucking bad. 4. The Game of Thrones Bar: where all of your friends die. 5.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Andrew Fuhrmann |Hannah Francis |Sonia Nair |Tyson Wray
Lively and sensitive direction, tennis-inspired set design, intelligent lighting and sound all support the performances, enlivening material which could easily have been flattened by nostalgia or stretched on the rack of sentimentality. It’s uplifting, mature theatre, guaranteed to leave you smiling.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Tyson Wray
If you were to judge Ahir Shah’s Netflix comedy special Ends by its trailer – a middle-of-the-road motormouth anecdote of a comedian from the United Arab Emiratesexplaining the meaning of Shah’s name in Arabic – you might just pass on what is one of the most enthralling standup hours in recent memory. Ends had a rocky beginning. It arrived at the Edinburgh festival fringe in 2023 as a self-declared work-in-progress and was performed in a small, poorly ventilated basement venue.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Tyson Wray
By Tyson Wray April 20, 2024 — 4.13pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English comedian Sarah Keyworth has reigned supreme at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, winning the Most Outstanding Show award on Saturday. Keyworth’s hour-long show, My Eyes Are Up Here, an examination of their gender-affirming top surgery, received a five-star review from The Age.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Stephen Russell |Tyson Wray |Lefa Singleton Norton
By Stephen A Russell, Tyson Wray and Lefa Singleton Norton April 4, 2024 — 11.59am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From finding humour in hard times to a hidden gem, this year’s comedy festival is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Kosa Monteith |Tyson Wray
MUSIC: Lainey Wilson kicks off her Margaret Court Arena show with a shoey THEATRE: Gaming meets live performance in Dissent at Arts House COMEDY: The MICF Gala gives us a taste of what's to come over the next few weeks "Y'all ready to have a dang good time tonight?" Lainey Wilson is a dyed-in-the-denim country show-woman. She plays to the crowd, hard - stalking the stage in fringed flares and a big hat, shufflin', swingin', kickin' off the show with a shoey in a cowboy boot.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Tyson Wray |Liam Pieper
Although Australian radio hits have been sparse lately, half of Melbourne seems to have turned out to see The Corrs - there's not an empty seat in Rod Laver Arena as a demographically baffling crowd files in and waits patiently for five hours of music to begin. Warmup acts Germein and Toni Childs were warmly received.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
theage.com.au | Donna Demaio |Vyshnavee Wijekumar |Tyson Wray |Cher Tan
Greenway uses strikingly poetic language to create visual and sonic imagery that captures the senses - be it sand beneath your toes, the ocean sweeping you away or the inability to properly profess love. But his tangential nature and penchant for fumbling is the undoing of this tale of a castaway marooned on a desert island. It also wouldn't be a late-night Fringe show at Trades without the blasts of a police siren echoing from outside the building - but to his credit, Greenway handles it deftly.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Donna Demaio |Vyshnavee Wijekumar |Tyson Wray |Cher Tan
Kimberley Twiner, Jessie Ngaio, Laura Trenerry and Patrick Dwyer are a bunch of clowns. Their physical comedy, at times, literally moves at snail's pace. It invites us to take a stickybeak at an assortment of characters - human and animal - that live beyond those fences. Delightful buffoonery ensues as a delectable, steady stream of zany yet relatable skits and interactions unravel. The over-arching thread allows us to eavesdrop on a neighbourhood.
