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

Maxim Boon, Journalist

Features / Arts
The Final Thought: You think you're controversial Milo Yiannopoulos? You got nothing on Kathy Griffin
This month, a reality check for a bleach-blonde right-wing hack.
Features / Arts
Maggie McKenna Brings Australia's Daggy Sweetheart, Muriel Heslop, To The Stage
"There's nothing more exciting than being able to play a woman who is flawed"
Features / Arts
Sydney Festival's Wesley Enoch Is The Playful Polemic Disrupting The Status Quo
"Surely the point of art is to look at a situation and ask, 'Where is the conflict? Where is the drama? Where is catharsis?'"
Features / Arts
How Taylor Mac Restored My Faith
For four life-changing nights during this year's Melbourne Festival, Taylor Mac took me to church. And it could not have come at a more important moment.
Features / Arts
Art Gallery Of Ballarat Celebrates The Power Of The Human Skull
"Whether you were the poorest of the poor or a member of the royal family, no one is beyond the grasp of death"
Reviews / Arts
Tree Of Codes (Melbourne Festival)
"A wondrous, kaleidoscopic spectacle, that requires nothing more from its audience than well-deserved awe."
Features / Film & TV
TV Addict: Louis Theroux Explores The Dark Heart Of America's Heroin Crisis
"I'd never take heroin, obviously. But there is some curiosity; there's a part of you that wants to understand that rush."
Reviews / Arts
All The Sex I've Ever Had (Mammalian Diving Reflex, Melbourne Festival)
They say we can learn a lot from our elders. This show proves it.
Reviews / Arts
Caravan (Melbourne Festival)
"Theatre-mavericks Susie Dee and Nicci Wilks are two of Australia's most fearless artists"
Reviews / Arts
Under Siege (Yang Liping Contemporary Dance, Melbourne Festival)
"A mesmerising fusion of ancient history, traditional folk craft and 21st-century invention."
Features / Arts
Freak Shows: The Boundary Busters Bringing Experimental Theatre To Melbourne Festival
Think you know theatre? There're a few productions headed to the Melbourne Festival that beg to differ.
Features / Arts
The Compass Is Broken: Welcome To The Age Of Post-Hypocracy Politics
As the political mainstream has become a moral hinterland, has our sense of humanity been overcome by a blindness to hypocrisy?
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