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

Maxim Boon, Journalist

Features / Arts
Ash Flanders Is 'Playing To Win' In His Never Ending Quest For Success
"I truly believe that wherever the fear is, that's where you should go as an artist, because that's where the good stuff is."
Features / Arts
Don't Miss These Must-See Shows At Sydney Festival
Arts & Culture Editor Maxim Boon picks the productions you need to catch.
Features / Arts
Follow The Leader: La Boite's Todd MacDonald On Why Diversity Is At The Heart Of His 2017 Season
"People can smell bullshit a mile away: if it looks like tokenistic programming, then it probably is."
Reviews / Arts
Measure For Measure (Cheek By Jowl, Pushkin Theatre Moscow)
A vigorously expressive production, that often blisters with disturbing intent
Features / Arts
2017's Top Food Trends
January has barely begun, but Aussie foodies are already clamouring for the must try delicacies of the year.
Reviews / Arts
Prize Fighter (La Boite)
A text that thrums with the truth of lived experience, articulated with urgent, confronting, unflinching commitment.
Reviews / Arts
Ladies In Black (QTC)
"Ladies In Black is feel-good while still managing to communicate something urgent and moving about acceptance, tolerance and equality."
Features / Arts
Ben Gerrard Brings Trans Trailblazer Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf To The Stage
"She could spot danger a mile away, so in that respect, she was a very good survivor. She didn't want to hurt people, but she worked too hard to lose everything."
Features / Arts
Dancers of the SDC at the Art Gallery of NSW
Sydney Dance Company's Rafael Bonachela Reveals The Naked Truth In 'Nude Live'
"I can try and imagine what it will feel like to be that exposed in that space, but until we're there, it is impossible to guess."
Features / Arts
British Actor Richard Katz Gets In Your Head For Complicite's Sonic Safari 'The Encounter'
"We are more connected and yet more separate than we've ever been. We're not very good at being attentive to things."
Features / Music
The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Maxim Boon
Features / Arts
Tipple App Brings The Humble Bottle-O Into The 21st Century
Tipple is the exciting new addition to the food industry's tech revolution. We take a closer look at the rapidly growing digital bottle-o.