Well, well, well. One does not often think of the bottom of a well as the ideal venue for stand-up comedy. The acoustics are awful and, with no room for any actual audience, the box office must also surely take a hit. Ne...

There’s a nice shape to Comic Conned, with music a strong presence both at beginning and end. To be honest, any show that opens with Bonnie Tyler singing, Holding Out For A Hero is going to have to work hard to get me of...

Act Like A Lady features a series of concise sets of stand-up comedy from a group of female Canberran comedians. The group was well-led by MC Codie Bell, with a fantastic set that had the audience chuckling and on-side w...

Billy Joel’s opening “A bottle of white, a bottle of red \  Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead” in Scenes from an Italian Restaurant notes the importance of variety. If you’re needing a change from stand-up at MICF 2017, c...

Walking out of a 16-colour Sierra game comes Clara Cupcakes – platinum blonde hair, purple skin, eight tentacles. Cephalopod molluscs never looked so fancy, as if straight outta the pictures; Marilyn Monroe from So...

Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon certainly know how to wield their instruments: Ned is terrific on the piano, his hands fierce across the keys; Alice has an incredible voice, majestic and malleable. Fans of Tom Lehrer, or Tim M...