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Christopher Sommers as Marshall and Zoë Houghton as Helen, photographed by Stephen Henry Searing domestic drama The Norman Mailer Anecdote has made its world premiere at Queensland Theatre’s Diane Cilento Studio. The playwrighting debut of award-winning local screenwriter Anthony Mullins, The Norman Mailer Anecdote follows one high-achieving Brisbane family over a night of drinking and... Continue Reading →
The X Collective opened their 2024 season with a devastating duet of shattering psyches in Tonight with Donny Stixx and Dark Vanilla Jungle. Wayne McPhee directed these back-to-back Philip Ridley plays, each focused on the experiences and delusions of a traumatised young person and delivered as a deeply engaging monologue. Philip Ridley is an English... Continue Reading →
The Norman Mailer Anecdote will make its world premiere at the Bille Brown Theatre in May 2024, the playwrighting debut of award-winning Australian screenwriter Anthony Mullins. I sat down with the show’s director, Julian Curtis, to discuss the play’s pertinent themes, his directorial debut for the stage, and being the first show presented in Queensland... Continue Reading →
Images by Vlad Da Cunha / Vlad Photo Amor 10 - 18 May 2024 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective, the award-winning Sunshine Coast-based contemporary theatre company, proudly announces its newest production, Amor, a devised physical theatre spectacle that delves into the intricate nuances of love's enigmatic essence. Directed by... Continue Reading →
John Waters and Danel MacPherson for The Woman In Black (c) James Reiser The Woman in Black 30 April - 11 May Playhouse Theatre, QPAC, South Bank Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story The Woman in Black comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation, promising to be a terrifying live theatre experience and a brilliantly... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson A collaboration between three local theatre companies, 35MM: A Musical Exhibition showcases an extraordinarily talented cast of Brisbane performers in Ryan Scott Oliver’s unconventional song cycle. Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson 35MM: A Musical Exhibition is a sung-through musical anthology of sixteen songs, each... Continue Reading →
Jessica Pratt as Lucia, photographed by Murray Summerville Presented as part of Opera Queensland’s inaugural Brisbane Bel Canto festival, Lucia di Lammermoor is a pared-back production that serves to showcase the astonishing virtuosity of starring soprano Jessica Pratt. Lucia di Lammermoor is a three-act tragic opera by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was... Continue Reading →
The Norman Mailer Anecdote 3 - 18 May 2024 Diane Cilento Studio, Queensland Theatre, South Brisbane Queensland Theatre’s inaugural DOOR 3 program kicks off with a blistering legal drama that exposes the Australian public's insatiable appetite for high-profile assault cases. Helen is poised to finally make equity partner at her law firm — that is, until her... Continue Reading →
The Cutting Cove Currawongs. Photographed by Pia Johnson. Having premiered last month in Melbourne, the home of AFL, 37 now brings its monumental energy and atmosphere to Queensland audiences in the Bille Brown Theatre. Written by Nathan Maynard and directed by Queensland Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director (First Nations) Isaac Drandic – who also collaborated on... Continue Reading →
Hyung Suk Bae in Recital 4 May 2024 Judith Wright Arts Centre, Fortitude Valley Hyung Suk Bae, Acting Principal Cello of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, is a graduate of Julliard and has performed on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Sydney Opera House. Take a journey and see the evolution of solo cello... Continue Reading →
Esmé Quartet 13 May 2024 QLD Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank Musica Viva Australia presents the Australian debut of one of the world’s finest young string ensembles, the award-winning Germany-based Esmé Quartet, in a seven-city national tour. The quartet will perform a program of works by Webern, Mendelssohn, Debussy, and Frerer. Named after the medieval French word... Continue Reading →
(L to R) Liam Hartley, Fiona Kennedy, and Jett Robson in Loot. Ad Astra presents Joe Orton's fast-paced and razor-sharp dark farce Loot, directed by Jennifer Flowers with assistant direction and production management by Liam Wallis. Compulsive truth-teller Hal McLeavey (Jett Robson) and his lover Dennis (Liam Hartley), an undertaker, have robbed a bank and... Continue Reading →
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