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Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett.

Spectacular adults-only cabaret comes with an air of debauchery and much celebration

Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett combines circus, sideshow, bizarre burlesque and song to help you shake off the world’s woes.

  • Cameron Woodhead, Andrew McClelland and Tony Way

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The best heckles, riskiest jokes and strangest moments from this year’s comedy festival

After a month packed with shows, our reviewers have come together to pick out the best (and most memorable) moments from this year’s comedy festival.

  • Donna Demaio, Guy Webster, Hannah Francis, Lefa Singleton Norton, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
Kit Connor in Warfare.

Iraq war film feels like the real thing … until it doesn’t

Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza base Warfare on an incident that involved a Navy SEAL platoon in 2006.

  • Jake Wilson
 Richard Roxburgh as journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

Richard Roxburgh’s nervy intensity works in a film about despair in an Egyptian prison

The Rake star plays jailed journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

  • Sandra Hall
Color Theories is on at Max Watt’s until April 20.

The good, the weird and the unmissable from this festival’s final week

From absurdist scribbling in a notebook to a show that digs into the dark recesses of the internet, and ChatGPT acting as matchmaker, here are our latest reviews.

  • Cher Tan, Donna Demaio, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Lefa Singleton Norton, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Nell Geraets
Mahalia Barnes

What made Mahalia Barnes say yes to Jesus Christ Superstar

Barnes has been surrounded by music her whole life, but it took a very particular set of circumstances for her to take on her first musical.

  • Elizabeth Flux
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Torres in a scene from Fantasmas.

The letter Q is lonely and purple is sassy: What can we learn from fonts and colours?

Former Saturday Night Live writer and cult comedy favourite Julio Torres has brought his newest experimental work to Australia.

  • Will Cox
Abel Selaocoe performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Vivaldi and Hendrix collide in a concert that was something of a religious experience

Abel Selaocoe performs with the ACO in a show that is part rock concert, part ritual.

  • Tony Way, Will Cox, Jessica Nicholas and Andrew Fuhrmann
Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega in a scene from Death of a Unicorn

Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star in this film that isn’t for viewers with weak stomachs

Death of a Unicorn is the good-taste version of an innately bad-taste idea – and should satisfy fans of both arthouse and horror.

  • Jake Wilson
The Booth Variety Spectacular & Formal Apology Hour! is on at Arts Centre Melbourne until April 20.

Ghosts, lies, and conspiracy theories: This festival has it all

From a show where musicals meet PowerPoint, to a trip back in time, here are our latest reviews.

  • Cher Tan, Donna Demaio, Elizabeth Flux, Guy Webster, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Lefa Singleton Norton, Nell Geraets, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar

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