English comedian Sarah Keyworth has reigned supreme at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, winning the Most Outstanding Show award on Saturday.
After a huge month packed with shows, our team of reviewers has come together to pick out the best (and strangest) moments from this year's comedy festival.
Oscar nominee Ryusuke Hamaguchi has made an intriguing film, but is it a gently satirical comedy of urban and rural manners, an eco-philosophical fable or something else?
Just two hours after releasing her highly anticipated 11th album, Swift stunned fans who had gathered to hear her new songs by releasing a second new album.
James Bradley explores humanity's past, present and possible futures through the lens of the world's oceans in his new book Deep Water: The World in the Ocean.
From an existentially challenging joke about bin bags to the Norwegian clown who won Britain's Got Talent, keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
Director David Leitch started his career as Brad Pitt's stunt double, then Matt Damon's. So who better to tell Ryan Gosling how to ride a broken bin across Sydney Harbour Bridge at 50km/h?
"We got the last use of old-time Melbourne.” Newly remastered, 1995's Metal Skin offers up a wild story of drag racing, sex and satanism in the western suburbs.
Irish actor Olwen Fouéré and Australia's Hugo Weaving command the stage in Sydney Theatre Company's first time co-production with Dublin's Gate Theatre.
Subscribers have the chance to redeem one of 30 double passes* to see Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode go head-to-head in a battle of wits in Freud's Last Session.
Twins Caitlin and Kristen want the same style of wedding dress and are unhappy when stylist Gok Wan presents a different option on Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire.
While Peter Clemenger's children will inherit some of the artworks he spent decades collecting with his wife, Joan, others were too big – and too important – to hand down.
In the six-part drama After the Party, Phil could be seen as an opportunistic manipulator, or as an innocent man demonised by his unhinged ex-wife Penny.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneer for women in law. Sarah Krasnostein followed in her wake and says Mitchell channels a 'strange' connection with the Supreme Court Justice.
The Sydney International Comedy Festival kicks off on April 22. Here's a preview of what you could bring your nan to and when best to leave her at home.
Watch the trailer for Big Mood on Stan, starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West as best friends living through mental health spirals, career changes and plenty of bad choices.
In the 1970s, the Sunbury festival celebrated rock music and youthful indulgence. On the weekend, the crowd returned. This time their clothes stayed on.
The iconic festival gave us the return of No Doubt, a surprise duet from Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey and an on-stage spray courtesy of Blur frontman Damon Albarn.
The most comprehensive survey of Yayoi Kusama's work ever to be brought to Australia will include childhood sketchbooks and the famed immersive mirror rooms.
The author of The Beach and director of Ex Machina has made a film about the collapse of democracy. It's a harrowing vision but, he says, it needn't come true.
The Castlemaine State Festival traditionally attracts up to 50,000 visitors, but its future is uncertain after significant losses at last year's event.
Marisa Abela, who plays the British singer in the film Back to Black, says the biopic is an honest portrait of the star's relationship with her controversial father Mitch.
The acclaimed actor has just finished performing his latest play in Ireland, where he says conversations about Gaza and Israel are much more "sane” than in Australia.
Kirsten Dunst stars as a photojournalist in this grimly candid portrait of the US ruled by a dictator in the White House – and a society under collapse.
Kirsha Kaechele, the creator of the women-only space, has spoken out for the first time since being ordered by a tribunal to allow men entry into the lounge.
Inspired by Don Lane, the American who dominated the Australian chat show in the mid-'70s and early '80s, Late Night with the Devil hits the right notes.
Your instinct is to assume Alice & Jack is a British romantic comedy with a few dark twists, but the dark twists are very dark. But to call it a "romantic tragedy” undersells one key detail.
The Sydney International Comedy Festival kicks off on April 22. Here's a preview of what you could bring your nan to and when best to leave her at home.
Jason Lau claimed he was discriminated against because of his gender and was unable to fully experience Mona after paying his $35 entrance fee last year.
The number of 18 to 24-year-olds attending music festivals has dropped in the past five years, with a new report warning rising costs and overpolicing are key factors.
It's fast times at Hartley High as the gang get back together. But with all the partying, sex and scandal, how does anyone ever get any schoolwork done?
Author Tony Birch reviews a deeply philosophical book by Pascoe and his partner Lyn Harwood about their personal growth and the need to live humbly with the land.
From lurid family histories to Excel-lent stand-up, this year's comedy festival is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
In an era where reality TV rarely offers much in the way of reality, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show finds the star comedian using TV cameras as a weapon.
Hot on the heels of breakout hit Talk To Me, Late Night With the Devil is the latest Aussie horror flick to attract worldwide buzz, and box office results.
The first rule of seeing the Triennial is don't try to see all of the Triennial. But if you have an hour or a day, here's how to maximise your experience.
The festival, which featured acts including Queens of the Stone Age and Nick Cave, has been permanently cancelled just a month after its most recent event.
The creative force behind West End hit, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is to step down at the end of the year from his full-time role at the flagship company he has led for eight years.
The creative force behind West End hit, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is to step down at the end of the year from his full-time role at the flagship company he has led for eight years.
Her career imploded when she went to jail over paying a bribe to get her daughter into a top college, but now the former Desperate Housewives star is back.
The event featuring Clementine Ford, Antoinette Lattouf and Yumi Stynes was billed as a feminist forum about love and relationships. It quickly went off the rails.
Couple to Throuple is billed as a dating show exploring a new frontier of relationships; what transpires is probably not what the show's creators had in mind.