Bloom Girl 3 - 11 Feburary Talbot Theatre, Thomas Dixon Centre, West End Brisbane independent artist and filmmaker Charli Burrowes will make her national theatre debut in Bloom Girl, a solo show about what it means to be liked, loved, or just real in the social media age. Directed by Elise Lamb, the show is... Continue Reading →
What’s On: To Barbra, With Love (Live Nation)
To Barbra With Love, with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Image credit: Nico Keenan To Barbra, With Love 3 - 4 February 2023 QPAC Concert Hall Elise McCann and Ryan Gonzalez join Australia’s own musical theatre royalty Caroline O’Connor and genre-hopping vocalist Katie Noonan for these concerts celebrating the inimitable Barbra Streisand. With Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Vanessa Scammell,... Continue Reading →
Review: Musical Theatre Gala (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra's Musical Theatre Gala, photographed by Peter Wallis Queensland Symphony Orchestra brought a broad selection of musical theatre classics to the QPAC Concert Hall for their special Musical Theatre Gala event, hosted and conducted by Guy Noble. Following a successful gala in 2021, the 2022 concert was made even longer, with a programme... Continue Reading →
Interview with David Megarrity: Tyrone and Lesley’s Bear with Me
David Megarrity performs as Tyrone in Bear with Me. Image supplied by David Megarrity. David Megarrity is an award-winning playwright, performer, and one half of ukulele and double bass duo Tyrone & Lesley. With collaborator Samuel Vincent, David will perform a 10th anniversary season of Tyrone and Lesley's show Bear With Me at Metro Arts... Continue Reading →
What’s On: GODZ (Head First Acrobats)
GODZ 16 November - 4 December 2022 Wynnum Fringe Festival, George Clayton Park Please note that GODZ is for audiences aged 18+ Following an award-winning season at Melbourne Fringe, Head First Acrobats is bringing their sexy, stunt-filled production GODZ to Brisbane for Wynnum Fringe Festival. Head First Acrobats company director Thomas Gorham said the bare... Continue Reading →
Review: output (Coleman Grehan)
Coleman Grehan performs output at the Fringe Brisbane Hub. Imagery supplied. Incorporating spoken word, movement, and electronic music, Coleman Grehan's solo show output was a raw and sincere contemplation of art, creativity, and mortality, performed as part of the inaugural Fringe Brisbane programme. An award-winning theatre director and sound designer returning to theatre-making after burnout,... Continue Reading →
Review: BUNKER (Metro Arts)
Image credit: Stewart Tyrell Content warnings: BUNKER contains coarse language, heightened psychological states, haze / smoke effects, loud music, and strobe lighting effects. Recommended for audiences aged 15+. What would you do if you received an alert that your world was ending? Who would you call? Where would you go, and what would you take... Continue Reading →
Review: David Massingham’s Little Sketch Book of Horrors
Image supplied by David Massingham Content warnings: Parental guidance is recommended for audiences aged under 13. David Massingham brought his solo sketch comedy show, Little Sketch Book of Horrors, to Big Fork Theatre just in time for Halloween. Part of the Fringe Brisbane programme, this was classic sketch comedy at its best – a hilarious... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Power, Language and Love – A Cabaret (Laura Fois & Fringe Brisbane)
Vivien Wood, Laura Fois, and Nykita O'Keeffe. Image supplied. Power, Language and Love - A Cabaret 4 - 6 November 2022 PIP Theatre, Milton Power, Language and Love is a light-hearted cabaret in three acts that recognises and celebrates everyday struggles in the lives of three women. Starring Laura Fois, Vivien Wood and Nykita O'Keeffe,... Continue Reading →
Review: Call Girls (Lauren Harvey and Kelly Hodge)
Content warnings: Call Girls contains coarse language, and parental guidance is recommended for audiences under 15. Lauren Harvey and Kelly Hodge have premiered their wry and relatable workplace comedy Call Girls at Big Fork Theatre as part of the inaugural Fringe Brisbane programme. Written, produced, and performed by Harvey and Hodge, and drawing on their... Continue Reading →
What’s On: The Normal Heart (Ad Astra)
Felix Jarvis as Felix Turner and Gregory J Wilken as Ned Weeks The Normal Heart 3 - 27 November 2022 Ad Astra, 57 Misterton St, Fortitude Valley Ad Astra concludes their 2022 season with The Normal Heart, a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer which focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New... Continue Reading →
Review: Contra Schubert (Contra Concerts & Southern Cross Soloists)
Jonathan Henderson, Vatche Jambazian, Shikara Ringdahl, and Hyung Suk Bae perform Contra Schubert, photographed by Stephen Henry With a programme including Schubert, Sculthorpe, and Ravel, Contra Schubert was an intimate and evocative chamber concert that allowed each piece to be drawn out and savoured. Presented in association with Southern Cross Soloists, Contra Concerts have been... Continue Reading →