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With a welcome return for some favourites and Australian debuts for others, the First Release line up of the Sydney Comedy Festival includes Dylan Moran, Danny Bhoy, The Umbilical Brothers, Adam Hills, Mark Watson, Tony Woods, Sugar Sammy, Tim Minchin, Pablo Francisco and Shane Warne The Musical. Continue reading festivals »
The inaugural Brisbane Comedy Festival will take place from 6 - 29 March, 2009. The lineup is being announced in stages - we already know that Danny Bhoy and Tim Minchin will be staging shows, and now it's announced that Adam Hills and Dave Hughes will also take part.
All shows for Adam Hills and Dave Hughes went on sale for Brisbane Comedy Festival this Monday 10 November, 2008:
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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 TV, festivals, film »
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