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Performance artist Lauren Watson, image supplied Undercover Artist Festival 16 – 18 September Queensland Theatre, South Brisbane With a programme of free and ticketed events, Undercover Artist Festival will showcase theatre, dance, comedy, circus, music, cabaret, poetry and more from performing artists with disability, in partnership with Brisbane Festival. The three-day disability-led performing arts festival exists to profile... Continue Reading →
Imagery supplied by Mitchell Fine Art Picnic 25 August - 2 October 2021 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley Mixed media artworks, sculptures, and couture form part of an inaugural exhibition for Ipswich-based artist Matthew Cheyne. Picnic will be Cheyne’s first commercial exhibition in Australia for almost ten years. A graduate of the Queensland College... Continue Reading →
Photographed by Matt Edwards Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 1 - 30 September, 2021 Toowoomba Petal power! The multi-award-winning Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (TCOF) has unveiled a month-long program of flowers and flavours for 2021, an extension of the 10-day event that has taken place in Queensland’s city on the range for the past 72 years.... Continue Reading →
Photo by David Kelly, edited by Alisdair Macindoe Forgery 22 September - 2 October 2021 Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Bank What happens when a computer has creative control of six dancers? The theatre darkens and the lights come up on a performance that is completely unknown - for not just the audience, but the dancers... Continue Reading →
Romeo & Juliet26 August – 12 September, 2021 Preview 26 AugustRelaxed Performance 2pm, 4 SeptemberPost Show Q&A, 1 September Roma Street Parkland Amphitheatre This spring, for their 20th birthday year, Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble returns to the Roma Street Parkland Amphitheatre to present their first full production of Romeo & Juliet with an ensemble of 13 actors.... Continue Reading →
Image supplied Opera Queensland’s Studio Series: A Poet’s Love 26 & 27 November 2021 Opera Queensland Studio, South Bank Part of Opera Queensland’s Studio Series, a program of intimate recitals and performances in the Opera Queensland’s newly refurbished Studio at South Bank, A Poet's Love is presented in partnership with the Brisbane Music Festival (BMF).... Continue Reading →
Pictured is dress rehearsal for West Side Story production on June 26, 2021 at Crown Theatre in Perth, Australia. Photo by Will Russell. Content warning: this production contains coarse language, adult themes, racial slur,s and sexual violence. West Side Story has opened at QPAC’s Lyric Theatre, directed by Joey McKneely and featuring a cast studded... Continue Reading →
Image supplied by Mitchell Fine Art Topsy Peterson Napangardi 21 July - 21 August 2021 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley Mitchell Fine Art presents a follow up exhibition of paintings portraying the Australian desert landscape, highlighting the contrast of artistic influences between family members. Topsy Peterson Napangardi was born in the remote desert of... Continue Reading →
Giema Contini, Billy Fogarty, and Chenoa Deemal, photographed by Morgan Roberts CAESAR 23 July – 7 August 2021. Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove With Shakespeare’s five acts adapted by five fierce, female-identifying and non-binary playwrights - Claire Christian, Jean Tong, Megan Wilding, Merlynn Tong and Zoey Dawson - CAESAR is a provocative contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s... Continue Reading →
Sheridan Harbridge in Prima Facie, photographed by Brett Boardman Content warning: This production contains descriptions of sex scenes and sexual assault. This isn’t life. This is law. Directed by Lee Lewis and played out powerfully on the Bille Brown Theatre’s corner stage, Suzie Miller’s scorching one-woman play Prima Facie has finally opened in Brisbane after... Continue Reading →
Brisbane Festival 3 - 25 September 2021 Brisbane Festival have announced their 2021 ‘Brightly Brisbane’ festival program, inviting the city to re-emerge, connect, celebrate and shine brightly under Brisbane’s expansive skies this September. Over 23 days in September, Brisbane Festival will commission 18 new works, stage 15 world premieres, deliver 139 productions, and present events... Continue Reading →
Prima Facie 14 July - 7 August 2021 Bille Brown Theatre, South Brisbane Initially delayed by last year’s theatre shutdown Prima Facie, written by human rights lawyer-turned-playwright Suzie Miller, will now be staged in 2021, as the country demands more of our governing and legal systems to improve the treatment of sexual assault survivors. Sheridan Harbridge will perform... Continue Reading →
