The slideshow below displays some posters for shows happening over the next week or two.

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The slideshow below displays some posters for shows happening over the next week or two.

• You can examine a poster in more detail, just mouse-over the top of the slideshow to pause it or slow down its speed
• click on a thumbnail (mouse-over the bottom of the slideshow to have them pop up) to view only that poster
• click on an poster to be given an option to visit a separate photo-page with

Two shows on at the Opera House Playhouse for a limited time only - you could make a really big night of it and see one show straight after the other if you wanted! With only 13 dates over the last week of November and the first week of December, these shows are sure to sell out the best seats fast - we don't see either of these favourite… Continue reading

Updated Tues 24th June It's coming up to that time of the year again. Officially the dates of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe are 3rd - 25th August 2008, although there are preview seasons for some shows. They're taking bookings for shows now. [link] The breakaway Comedy Festival being run by the the four biggest venues on the Fringe – Underbelly, Pleasance, Gilded Balloon and Assembly Rooms – is looking strong, although it's ruffling some feathers on the Fringe Committee. So far, acts at these four venues are still on the official Fringe website, but who knows whether they still will be next week? (Update: edcomfest.com has now gone live listing the shows (and offering bookings) at the four venues above [link] - thanks Sarah for the news! Beware - the search function is pedantic - if you miss a comma it will say "no data was returned") Here are the results of a search of the various Edinburgh Fringe websites for Australian performers - the performers below are appearing in some of the largest rooms in Edinburgh and some of the smallest, from stand-up to cabaret and back again (I've included expats and immigrants! (update: and now on special request, even a few Kiwis)). If you're going to be in Scotland for those 3 weeks and want to catch some shows that sound like home I suggest you do a search using the names of the shows below :… Continue reading

Featured Acts: Jimeoin on Ice 17-22 June Puppetry of the Penis 17-22 June Raymond Crowe 17-22 June Carita Farrer 18-21 & 25-28 June Fiona O'Loughlin 17-22 June Young Guns of Comedy 24 June Julia Morris 24 June Anh Do 25-26 June The Chaser's Age of Terror Variety Hour 25-28 June Akmal Saleh 25-29 June Scared Weird Little Guys 24-29 June The Kransky Sisters 25-26 June Umbilical Brothers 27-29 June Cal Wilson 27-29 June As well as these top headliner acts, QPAC is offering "Outside" as a separate venue during the In Stitches Festival:… Continue reading

It's that time of year and I'm starting the site nearly at the end of it, with Sydney's Cracker Comedy Festival ending on May 11. Oh well. Check out the acts at the Cracker site by clicking on the image below: Plenty of old favourites and some new faces too fronting up to the mic.… Continue reading