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

Maxim Boon, Journalist

Reviews / Arts
Her Father's Daughter (Hotel Now Theatre Group)
"An innovative roving performance exploring the grand Victorian interiors of Prahran Council Chambers."
Reviews / Arts
Bliss
"A production saddled with a surprising number of miscalculations."
Reviews / Arts
Wild (Melbourne Theatre Company)
"Existential crises have never been so thrilling."
Features / Arts
Laurie Anderson: Of Love, Loss, Lou And Lola
Some people seek greatness, while others have it thrust upon them. In the case of American performance artist Laurie Anderson, a little of both those statements is apt.
Features / Arts
Orange Is The New Black's Big Boo: I Demand Your Respect But I Couldn't Give A Fuck About Your Acceptance
"I just did not want the people behind me to grow up in the fucking horrifying world that I grew up in."
Features / Arts
The Final Thought: Can You Speak Millennial? Sorry Mainstream Media, It's Harder Than You Think.
For old-school mainstream titles, getting on board the youth media gravy train is easier said than done.
Features / Arts
Director Matthew Lutton Explains Why Ignorance Really Isn't 'Bliss'
"This show is about asking one really important question: when we awake to our problems, what do we do with them?"
Features / Music
Jazz-Funk Prodigy Jacob Collier Is Marching To The Beat Of His Own Drum
"I've never read a single book about music theory or anything like that. So I started to coin my own terms for things and come up with my own way of talking about music"
Reviews / Arts
Natalie Palamides: Laid (MICF)
"Stomachs may be turned and beliefs may be beggared, but more than anything, jaws will be dropped by this one of a kind event."
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Review: ★★★★½ Zoe Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom (MICF)
"It's somehow incredibly clever and immensely stupid all at the same time"
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Helen Bidou: Enter The Spinnaker Lounge (MICF)
"This may very well be the birth of the best Australian comedy characters since Kath and Kim."
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Cameron Duggan: Sorry I'm Late (MICF)
"Loveable schlub who's a stand-up assassin, playing MICF as a newcomer with all the skill of a veteran."
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