Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Maxim Boon, Journalist

Features / Arts
Actor Harry Greenwood Takes A Trip To Cloud Nine For Sydney Theatre Company
"The sense you're left with after you see one of her plays is that brilliant mind opening feeling."
Reviews / Film & TV
Okja
"Netflix's first bona fide movie blockbuster."
Features / Arts
Steve Vizard Finds The Humour In Heartbreak For His Cabaret Hit, 'Vigil'
"The idea of not leaving something until it's too late really resonates with me"
Features / Arts
Dancer Daniel Riley Confronts The Past In Bangarra's Latest Work, 'Bennelong'
It's about a changing of culture and the attempt to share culture - where sharing culture worked and where it didn't.
Features / Arts
Belvoir's Eamon Flack Brings The First Feminist Playwright Back From The Dead
"She tempted fate a lot in her life - she clearly lived what she argued for and you definitely feel that in her plays."
Features / Arts
Vive La Révolution: Director Janice Muller On The Reality Of Modern Feminism
"It's asking us to face a big question - what if feminism can't really achieve anything?"
Reviews / Film & TV
House Of Cards (Season 5)
"House of Cards has just about managed to survive the curse of Trump."
Reviews / Arts
The Moors
"Nicolazzo displays incredible confidence in weaving together different influences, visually, intellectually and theatrically"
Features / Arts
Damien Ryan Finds The Inner Beauty Of Rostand's Huge Nosed Hero, Cyrano De Bergerac
"It's exciting, it's thrilling, it's such an adventure."
Reviews / Arts
Macbeth (MTC)
"Looks can only carry this production so far."
Features / Film & TV
'American Gods' Star Ricky Whittle On His US Gamble And Becoming Shadow Moon
"For me, satisfaction is the death of desire. I'm always going to aim for more."
Features / Arts
It's Gin O'Clock: The Best Aussie-Made Bottles To Enjoy This World Gin Day
If Melbourne knows anything, it's how to make the most of a mutha luvin' gin!