Review: A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or, How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) (Merrigong Theatre Company, QPAC & Brisbane Festival)

Image credit: Tracey Leigh Images Joshua Hinton’s A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) was a delicious family history. Alongside his brother Dominic, Hinton told a story about lineage, cultural connection, and searching for a sense of belonging while he cooked his grandmother Mehmeh’s chicken curry live... Continue Reading →

2 Oct 2025 0

Review: The Chronicles (Stephanie Lake Company, Brisbane Festival)

Photographed by Daniel Boud A spectacular contemporary dance work about the cycle of life and the journey from birth to death, The Chronicles was presented as part of Brisbane Festival by the Melbourne-based Stephanie Lake Company, following its world premiere at Sydney Festival in January. Photographed by Laurent Liotardo From the first uncurling fingers of... Continue Reading →

30 Sep 2025 0

Review: Bad Nature (Australasian Dance Collective, Club Guy & Roni, Studio Boris Acket, HIIIT, Brisbane Festival & Brisbane Powerhouse)

Bad Nature for Brisbane Festival at The Powerhouse Theatre, photographed by David Kelly A jaw-dropping collaboration between Brisbane’s Australasian Dance Collective and The Netherlands’ Club Guy & Roni, Studio Boris Acket, and HIIIT, Bad Nature was a transportive new work about the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world. Photographed by David... Continue Reading →

29 Sep 2025 0

Review: Takács Quartet with Angie Milliken (Musica Viva Australia)

Takács Quartet with Angie Milliken, photographed by Cameron Jamieson Takács Quartet with Angie Milliken toured Australia’s major cities throughout August, celebrating 80 years of Musica Viva Australia and 50 years of the Budapest-founded, Colorado-based Takács Quartet. The concert included a brand-new work by Cathy Milliken for narrator and string quartet, inspired by the poetry of... Continue Reading →

27 Sep 2025 0

Review: La bohème (Opera Queensland, Brisbane Festival & QPAC)

Elena Perroni and Valerio Borgioni as Mimì and Rodolfo, photographed by Steph Do Rozario Opera Queensland presented a stunning, fully staged production of Puccini’s beloved opera La bohème in QPAC’s Lyric Theatre as part of Brisbane Festival 2025. La bohème was first performed at Turin’s Teatro Regio in 1896, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893... Continue Reading →

23 Sep 2025 0

Review: The Platypus (Soft Tread Enterprises, Brisbane Festival)

Rebecca Bower and John Leary in The Platypus, photographed by Mark Gambino Francis Greenslade’s The Platypus is a metatheatrical two-hander that puts a genre-hopping spin on the kitchen sink drama. Jessica and Richard’s marriage is crumbling. Richard is healing from a vasectomy, and resents Jess for suggesting it. Jess feels unwanted, and seeks excitement in... Continue Reading →

19 Sep 2025 0

Review: Gems (L.A. Dance Project, Brisbane Festival, QPAC, TEQ & BEDA)

On the Other Side, photographed by Jade Ellis Inspired by the three-part classical ballet work Jewels, which was created for the New York City Ballet by its co-founder George Balanchine in 1967, Gems is a trilogy of contemporary dance works by French dancer, choreographer, and founder of the L.A. Dance project Benjamin Millepied. In an... Continue Reading →

19 Sep 2025 0

Review: Dance Nation (THAT Production Company)

Image credit: Kenn Santos THAT Production Company brought Clare Barron’s Dance Nation to Metro Arts, a powerfully, truthfully complex coming-of-age story framed by the trials and triumphs of a troupe of teenaged dancers. Directed by Timothy Wynn, with assistant direction and choreography by Jennifer B Ashley, Dance Nation follows a group of young people on... Continue Reading →

10 Sep 2025 0

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble & PIP Theatre)

Image credit: Benjamin Prindable Photography Lose yourself in the enchanted forest of A Midsummer Night's Dream, brought to life with music, mischief, and magic by the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. In this Shakespearean comedy, four young lovers find themselves in the forest outside of Athens – Hermia loves Lysander (reimagined in this production as Lysandra) but... Continue Reading →

3 Sep 2025 0

Review: The Dragon Queen of Argos (The Curators’ Theatre)

Rainee Skinner as Clytemnestra, photographed by Michael Beh Presented by The Curators’ Theatre, The Dragon Queen of Argos sets the stage ablaze as it tells an ancient story of vengeance with magnetic new energy. Written, directed, and designed by Michael Beh, with dramaturgy by Maureen Todhunter, The Dragon Queen of Argos is the second in... Continue Reading →

26 Aug 2025 0

Review: Accidental Death of an Anarchist (PIP Theatre)

(L to R) Dana Summer, Izabela Wasilewska, Rebel Star, Deidre Grace, Isaiah Harrison, and Greg Scurr (front), photographed by Jade Ellis PIP Theatre's Queensland-flavoured production of Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, adapted from the translation by Ed Emery, turns the force of Fo’s ferocious wit onto local history. Accidental Death of an Anarchist... Continue Reading →

31 Jul 2025 0

Review: She Works Hard For (No) Money (Backyard Flamingo)

Carla Haynes and Ellen Hardisty, photographed by Laura Fois Presented as part of Anywhere Festival Brisbane, Samantha Hill's She Works Hard for (No) Money was a clever and comedic exploration of gendered expectations surrounding unpaid labour and the mental load. Written and produced by Hill, the play moved through a series of vignettes that approached... Continue Reading →

30 Jul 2025 0