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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 →
Garden Party 11 - 23 January 2023 La Boite Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove Following on from their show A Bee Story, ARC Circus present a new adventure featuring Queen Bee and Worker Bee. Garden Party is a uniquely Australian circus and physical theatre show for children and families, incorporating a kaleidoscope of acrobatics, dance, magic... Continue Reading →
Hold Me Closer Tony Danza 24 - 28 January 2023 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Recommended for audiences aged 18+ A commonly misheard song lyric contains a deeper proposition about how we form meaning and a provocation that perhaps our understanding of the world is intrinsically flawed. Presented by Metro Arts, Hold Me... Continue Reading →
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 →
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, photographed by Peter Wallis Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Viennese Classics concert drew together a series of seven works by great composers who made their names, found artistic inspiration, and created enduring works in the Austrian capital city of Vienna. With a programme including Beethoven, Strauss, Mahler, and Schubert, among others, Viennese Classics was... Continue Reading →
Samuel Valentine, Stephen Geronimos, and Aidan O'Donnell Review of 12 October performance Content warnings: Violence, partial nudity, strong coarse language, offensive language, scenes of binge drinking/alcohol consumption, ableism, adult themes, murder, and discussion of physical and sexual violence. PIP Theatre presented Gordon Graham’s haunting suburban drama The Boys in October, directed by Cienda McNamara. Drawing... Continue Reading →
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 →
Northshore Christmas Boat Parade 18 December 2022 Northshore, Hamilton Seafarers and spectators alike are invited to experience Brisbane’s newest Christmas tradition, the inaugural Northshore Christmas Boat Parade, on Sunday 18 December. The Brisbane River will light up with a glittering cavalcade of illuminated boats, parading the length of Northshore Brisbane to a soundtrack of Christmas classics and merry... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Murphy and Rob Pensalfini as Lady and Lord Macbeth. Image by Benjamin Prindable Photography. Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble performed Macbeth for the first time in the company’s 21-year history, presented in the intimate performance space at the Fringe Brisbane Hub in South Brisbane. Directed by Angela Witcher, an ensemble of twelve actors tackled Shakespeare’s shortest... Continue Reading →
Content warning: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, contains coarse language and references to violence and suicide. In October, The X Collective presented the intriguing avant-garde theatrical experiment White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at Fate Container Studios in West End. Written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, its key point of interest is not in the script, but in... Continue Reading →
Bear with Me 7 - 10 December 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Brisbane ukulele duo Tyrone and Lesley present their playful music and theatre show Bear with Me, which is specifically made for children and their bears. This is the 10th anniversary season of the show, written by David Megarrity, which has... Continue Reading →
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 →
