A teenager has sold out a Darwin cinema with the premiere of a film that he made almost entirely in secret.

The Adelaide Fringe is one of the centrepieces of the state's festival season — but the cost of organising a show has some artists reconsidering the value of participating.

A raw and powerful Adelaide Fringe show deals with a range of perspectives after a suicide, with some of its cast members drawn from a mental health support group.

A WA musician who turned his love of gardening into songs about composting and growing vegetables has seen his musical efforts bear fruit, playing the big stage at the Glastonbury Festival and having his music pushed by the United Nations.

Twenty-seven years ago Melinda Clarke published the iconic, hand-drawn Melbourne Map and now she's determined to make a new one.