Live like a local – explore like a tourist
Love Lies Bleeding 31 October - 23 November 2024 Ad Astra, Misterton Street, Fortitude Valley This play concerns an artist named Alex Macklin in the last years of his life, and the effect his condition has on his son, Sean, and his second and fourth wives, Toinette and Lia, respectively. After a major second stroke,... Continue Reading →
Cast of The X Collective's Cleansed Content note: Please be advised this production contains, and this review refers to, simulations of drug use, extreme sexual & physical violence, incest, and suicide. The X Collective close their 2024 season with Sarah Kane's confronting and brutal play Cleansed. Directed by Wayne McPhee, with assistant direction and design by... Continue Reading →
Timothy Christopher Ryan, photographed by Kay Fogarty Creative Juices 31 October - 8 November 2024 (8pm - 9pm) 128 Boundary St, West End Presented by Scratch Arts and performed by award-winning artist Timothy Christopher Ryan as part of Melt Festival, Creative Juices is an interactive art workshop-comedy hybrid and an invitation for adults to embrace... Continue Reading →
Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) is excited to announce that auditions for their 2025 Core Ensemble, Apprentice Program and Advanced Apprentice Program will be held on the afternoons of 30 November and 1 December 2024, with callbacks 6-11pm on Monday 2 December. APPLICATIONS Applications must be received by 5pm on 22 November. Applications are encouraged from... Continue Reading →
Clarise Ooi, photographed by Naz Mulla Embodi Theatre has premiered a new bilingual play at PIP Theatre, exploring the intersections of human emotion and artificial intelligence. Written and directed by Amy Chien-Yu Wang, with dramaturgy by Helen Strube, AI May is a bittersweet story of loss and love centred on the tensions between an immigrant... Continue Reading →
Imagery by Joel Devereux DragSpeare: Drag Kings do Shakespeare 1 - 9 November 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton Lucinda Shaw, director says “We’ve got an amazing cast of Kings who are not just delivering Shakespeare but doing it with style, sass, and a lot of heart. This is a show for anyone who loves drag, music,... Continue Reading →
Liliana Macarone (Brutus) Lillian Duggan (Caesar) and Rebecca Murphy (Cassius), photographed by Benjamin Prindable Photography Julius Caesar 7 - 24 November 2024 The Avalon Theatre, St Lucia Politics is sport. Sport is politics. And the fight for power is a high-stakes game. When Caesar returns to Rome, riding high on a wave of victories and... Continue Reading →
The Fifth Elephant 19 October – 2 November 210 Petrie Terrace, Petrie Terrace In this stage adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett's 1999 novel by Stephen Briggs, Commander Vimes is sent to the icy, Transylvania-like realm of Uberwald to build trade relations with the Dwarf King. But his mission soon takes a turn as he finds... Continue Reading →
Yoga Play 7 - 23 November 2024 La Boite Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove La Boite Theatre is limbering up to present an Australian-first season of Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play, a tale of downward dog and downward profits, in collaboration with the National Theatre of Parramatta. Brisbane stars Andrea Moor and Thomas Larkin will bring the... Continue Reading →
Camerata & Davide Monti: Baroque Labyrinth Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 7pm Concert Hall, QPAC, Brisbane Baroque Labyrinth sees the long-awaited return of one of Camerata’s favourite collaborators, the Italian Baroque violin virtuoso Davide Monti. A much sought-after director, soloist, and chamber musician, Davide teams ups with Camerata to uncover a labyrinth of bold, adventurous baroque... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Red Anchor Media CAKE 6 - 16 November 2024 Metro Arts, West Village, West End Join Marie Antoinette’s Royal Court and witness her cascade through parties, PR disasters and debauchery on the road to her inevitable beheading. Returning by popular request for a second serving, CAKE is a provocative comedy, inviting audiences to... Continue Reading →
Magic, Mystique and Melancholy 20 October 2024 Concert Hall, QPAC, South Bank Drawing inspiration from Stravinsky's enchanting yet poignant ballet Petrushka and the iconic Ballets Russe, this program evokes an atmosphere of enchantment and allure whilst embracing the bittersweet essence of the human experience. From Russian émigré maestros to the dazzling Belle Époque era of... Continue Reading →
Backstreet Brisbane 