Funny man Stephen K Amos

Stephen K Amos performing at Athenaeum Theatre as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2014.

Stephen K Amos has huge funny bone action going on. From the start he had Thursday nights full house at Melbourne’s Anthenaeum Theatre in his pocket and he played with us like the seasoned international comedic professional he is.

Evenly paced, engaging, his timing didn’t miss a beat. He easily merged impromptu and very funny dialogue with people in the first couple of rows and hecklers in the stalls weaving their responses into his written script, breezing through the show like the comedic maestro he is with resounding laughter and applauses with every punchline.

Actor and storyteller, the very cultured Stephen K took us on a hilarious, psychedelic ride from puberty and beyond. There is little better than great comedy.


Stephen K Amos performing at Athenaeum Theatre as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival...

DAVE HUGHES headlines Felix Bar Comedy this Wednesday!!

Hughesy is perhaps one of the most important and significant talents to have emerged from the Australian comedy scene.

A natural and unmistakably Australian comic, Dave’s laconic style thinly disguises one of the fastest comic minds this country has ever seen. Along with Kate Langbroek and Ed Kavalee, Hughesy makes up Melbourne’s Nova 100 breakfast team. And if that’s not enough, he can be seen on Network Ten’s Before the Game during the AFL footy season, and most recently as a co-host on the popular Network Ten news program, The 7PM Project. The most powerful testimony to Dave’s talent is his enduring popularity with audiences. He has over the course of the last five years become one of the highest selling Australian comedy acts in the country. His most recent 2010 show, Retro, was held over two nights and sold out the historic 3000 seat Palais Theatre proving that audiences can’t get enough of Hug...

ANTENNA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES KEY DATES AND 2012 COMPETITION


^{Into Eternity - Winner 2011} Antenna International Documentary Film Festival returns for its second year and will take place between the 10th to 14th October, in Sydney. Hosted at Dendy Cinemas, Antenna 2012 will showcase over 30 feature length documentaries from around the world, film competitions, special events and international guests. Over five days, the documentary film festival will share the creative talents of local and international filmmakers and allow the public to experience the best contemporary documentary cinema from around the world. "This festival was created due to the increase in popularity of documentaries worldwide. We felt that there was a need for a documentary festival in Australia and the high attendance of people proved this. Following on the success of our first year, we are creating a 2012 film program that will encourage audiences to look at the world around them in a new light. ...

Margaret Cho returns to Australia for a national tour that will include a special performance at the Sydney Opera House for the Just For Laughs Sydney Comedy Festival. The tour starts in Perth on 6 September before heading to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

Beginning with her early days in Southern California, comedian Margaret Cho has always been the Agent Provocateur of stand up. Never one to shy away from a taboo topic, there are literally no subjects off limits. Her socially aware, no-holds-barred brand of comedy has made her both a thought leader and a tolerant teacher to those with open minds and open hearts.

An accomplished performer in all formats, Margaret has conquered the worlds of film, television, books, music and theatre. Having been nominated for three Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award, her comedy tours are a constant sell-out both around the world. The film and DVD releases of Margaret’s comedy shows have broken records with...

RODNEY CARRINGTON

NEW SYDNEY & MELBOURNE LATE SHOWS ADDED TO THE HERE COMES THE TRUTH TOUR THIS AUGUST – ON SALE NOW

Having already sold out shows in Sydney, Melbourne and two in Townsville, red-blooded, Texan-born country comedian Rodney Carrington’s Here Comes The Truth Tour, his debut tour of Australia, is shaping up to be one of the hottest comedy tours of the year.

Due to overwhelming demand, Frontier Comedy is thrilled to announce two new late shows at Sydney’s Rooty Hill RSL and Melbourne’s Palms at Crown Casino, kicking off at 10pm following Carrington’s already announced sold out performances. These new late shows are on sale now.
Carrington has sold over three million albums, starred in the hugely popular 2004-2006 sitcom Rodney, saw a staggering nine million viewers tune in to catch his one-hour Comedy Central TV special, and is one of the USA’s Top 10 highest-grossing touring comedians.

Leave your pre-conceived ideas and political...

RAW Comedy Finalist and TV writer John Dore is mounting Revolving Dore for a strictly limited five night run at The Butterfly Club. After debuting to sold out crowds and rave reviews, Revolving Dore is an observational hour of stand-up, character work and storytelling that has received critical acclaim, with critics heralding this up-and-coming comedian as ‘Oven-ready for mainstream success’ and ‘having honed his stand up skills to an exceptional level’ his season at this Melbourne institute is sure to please…
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It’s a packed house at Northcote Town Hall, not a single empty seat, and the audience is hungry for a show that is worth the hype that has and continues to build surrounding it. Led by the ever vivacious Busty Beats, this powerhouse ensemble commands your attention and has the audience, licking their lips wanting just a little bit more to savour. Hot Brown Honey, is a show that pushes the envelope, empowers and blurs the lines of political theatre.

There’s so many elements at work here, all of which together, create something truly next level, it’s not strictly dance, nor burlesque, circus nor spoken word, its everything together, placed side by side in equal measure, such a melding of styles so often results in shows that are loose, unable to hide a sense of disconnection between scenes, but Hot Brown Honey is an exception to this rule of disappointment. Some scenes leave the biggest smile across your face, the energy being that infectious, more than once you...

40^th HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL A RESOUNDING SUCCESS

The only thing missing was an Australian presence

Crowds flocked to the concluding ceremony held in the open air behind the Hong Kong Cultural Centre overlooking a resplendent Victoria Harbour last Sunday. They were there to see the actors and directors who won awards, parade before the public. Thrilled with the vast array of great films that were shown throughout the duration of the festival, there was one in particular that deeply touched a chord with Hongkongers in particular, along with international guests and film lovers, and has sent a wave of intense interest around the world. In a very real sense, the winner of the Best Film Award, is one which carries a great rags to riches, a David and Goliath message, that given the will and determination to achieve a goal in life, once the first step is taken along the path, great achievements and unexpected results can and do arise. The film that won the Best Fi...

Presented in The Melbourne International Comedy Festival by Here There & Everywhere Theatre Co. from Gippsland.

An original, fly-on-the-wall style production, starring all regional performers!

Married bliss or hit and miss ..

Four vastly different yet relatable couples, descend on the peaceful country setting of the Paradise Valley Couples Retreat, for a weekend of relationship therapy. Sharing their stories and situations, events unfold to explore their relationships warts and all, giving the audience a glimpse into the character’s private worlds. Will the couples survive counselling, or will the cracks that develop be too deep? Based on real life events, the production focuses on realistic relationships and explores the themes of commitment and love. Under the guidance of their councillors, the couples interact to reveal their issues, with the aim of strengthening their individual unions, resulting in some touching moments, many comical situations and surprising revelati...

A night under the big top – it’s a magical space where time may often stand still, taking adults back to their childhood when the circus would roll into town. These days if one mentions circus, they would most often think of the global powerhouse that is Cirque du Soleil – a company that has, over the last three decades or so reinvented the wheel, re-imagining this art form and contemporised its for a whole new generation of audiences, both young and the young at heart.

So, it is with much delight that Cirque du Soleil will be bringing their latest grand offering KOOZA to Melbourne in 2017- staged under the blue and yellow big top, it promises to be an adrenaline pumping night of surreal performance, dare devil stunts and mind bending acrobatics. The performance will feature no less than 50 performers and promises to be nothing short of a spectacle that will take you on a journey through surreal landscapes populated with unexpected characters and more...