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Image supplied String: an odd evening with Tyrone and Lesley 12 March 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Unwinding as a cross between a concert and slide night, Tyrone and Lesley will make your heartstrings ring as they string together 20 years of hits and premiere songs from their new recording String. Tyrone and... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Ben McShea of BEAK Photographics Into the Woods 17 February - 5 March 2022 Theatre 102, Redcliffe Performing at their own Theatre 102, Redcliffe Musical Theatre's reimagining of Stephen Sondheim’s classic comes with a slight twist on the traditional fairytale concept. Into The Woods follows the story of a Baker and his wife... Continue Reading →
Image supplied A Girl's Guide to World War 3 - 20 February 2022 Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm Written by Queensland couple Katy Forde and Aleathea Monsour, the new Australian musical A Girl’s Guide to World War celebrates the wartime exploits of Brisbane’s first lady doctor, Dr Lilian Cooper. After sell-out shows in 2018 and 2019,... Continue Reading →
Little Shop of Horrors 5 - 12 March 2022 Star Theatre, Manly Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical that follows Seymour, a shy and clumsy florist shop worker who accidentally raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the... Continue Reading →
Images supplied by Mitchell Fine Art Mother, Country, Tjukurrpa 1 Feb - 5 March 2022 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley The symbiotic relationships between tradition, culture, family, and connection to country feature in this exhibition of paintings and sculpture illustrating the connections in Aboriginal society between the land, tradition, and their defining dreaming stories... Continue Reading →
Romantic Heroes – Rosario La Spina & John Woods 25 - 26 February 2022 Opera Queensland Studio, South Bank Rosario La Spina and John Woods with Opera Queensland present a recital that traverses the heroes and romantic leads from the early Baroque era, featuring best-loved arias and songs. Starting in the early Baroque era with... Continue Reading →
Brenda Sullivan, photographed by Sarah Marshall QSO Favourites 1:30pm & 7:30pm, 12 February 2022 Concert Hall QPAC Queensland Symphony Orchestra will begin 2022 with QSO Favourites, a concert of favourites as requested by fans and musicians, including a world premiere from one of the orchestra's own. The concert has been curated by and for Queenslanders... Continue Reading →
Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner 24 February - 12 March 2022 The Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove seven methods of killing kylie jenner is a political and provocative two-woman play written by Jasmine Lee-Jones and co-directed by Zindzi Okenyo and Shari Sebbens. Enraged by Kylie Jenner’s claim to be the youngest self-made billionaire, Cleo vents her frustration via Twitter, spiralling into... Continue Reading →
Photo by Jessica Maurer The Big Anxiety 26 - 27 May 2022 QUT Gardens Point, Brisbane City Content warning: mental health, suicide Brisbane's first mental health and arts festival, The Big Anxiety will explore how arts-based experiences – from high-tech interactive environments to innovative conversation formats – can help people work through trauma, suicidality, anxiety... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Prudence Upton The Wider Earth 5 - 19 February 2022 The Princess Theatre, Woolloongabba Nominated for an Olivier Award and 2 Helpmann Awards, Dead Puppet Society's The Wider Earth takes audiences aboard the HMS Beagle with a rebellious, twenty-two year old Charles Darwin as he undertakes a daring voyage to the far side... Continue Reading →
Image supplied ORACLE 24 - 27 March 2022 Princess Theatre, Woolloongabba Since the beginning of time, humankind, gods and goddesses alike, have all looked up to the stars in an attempt to draw meaning from the Universe. In doing so, prophecies, myths and tales have been told; tales of monsters, mermaids and other mythical creatures.... Continue Reading →
Leaves of Glass 8 - 30 April 2022 Brisbane Latvian Hall, 24 Church Ave, Woolloongabba On the surface, Steven has everything. A beautiful wife, a successful business, a brand new home. But beneath the glittering veneer lies a monstrous secret... Philip Ridley's Leaves of Glass is a play about two brothers and the hold that... Continue Reading →
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