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Win a season pass to Melbourne's iconic GABS Craft Beer & Cider Festival

Forbidden love and LGBTIQ+ activism intersect in Mark Salvestro’s riveting play, ‘The Will to Be’

Review: Dilruk Jayasinha’s ‘Victorious Lion’ marries sublime storytelling and big laughs

Review: Arj Barker is the king of cathartic, light-hearted comedy - something we all need right now

Despite a late venue change, The Basin-ish Concert was an unequivocal success story

Everything you need to know about 'Drummer Queens', Australia’s hottest new stage show

Video premiere: Raechel Whitchurch frees herself of anxiety with the country-tinged 'Don't Be Afraid'

Genesis Owusu, Hiatus Kaiyote and loads more announced for third season of ABC's 'The Set'

Your home of Melbourne International Comedy Festival reviews - we cast our critical eye

Review: If you support Liberal, Tom Ballard’s ‘We Are All in This’ is not the show for you
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Beat’s guide to Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2021
After a less-than-funny 2020, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is back and boasting a huge program of the some of the world’s funniest.

On 'Smiling with No Teeth', Genesis Owusu has delivered one of the albums of the year

Odette's new album ‘Herald' is an ambitious project executed so flawlessly it seems effortless

Chutney's new Elton John-inspired single 'Invisible' is beautifully bittersweet

Shame's new album 'Drunk Tank Pink' is one of the best post-punk records in recent memory

Sleaford Mods' 11th album 'Spare Ribs' is a bruising appraisal of Britain's current cataclysm

Something For Kate make a spirited return with their first album in eight years, 'The Modern Medieval'

Melbourne-based electronic touring company Thick As Thieves has launched its own record label

Review: Adam Rozenbachs is lockdown’s everyman in ‘The UnWellness Guru’

Review: A Tom Gleeson gig is one hour of uncompromising, feel-good laughs

Introducing Good Times, the new festival from the team behind Strawberry Fields

Review: Lano & Woodley are still the grand masters of comedy
