Whitefella Yella Tree 23 October - 8 November 2025 Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove A timeless love story, infused with culture, history and identity, plays out on the Roundhouse Theatre stage when the award-winning Whitefella Yella Tree makes its Queensland premiere. It is a story of first love, of Ty and Neddy, two teenage boys who... Continue Reading →
Review: Baleen Moondjan (Stephen Page, Brisbane Festival & Queen’s Wharf Brisbane)
Photographed by Morgan Roberts Stephen Page’s Baleen Moondjan was a work of impressive skill, vision, and Festival-scale spectacle, combining song, dance, and live music beneath huge whale bones stretching toward the stars. Staged on the Brisbane River with the audience seated on the edge of Queen’s Wharf, it was a unique and humbling experience to... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Saint Joan (The Island of Misfit Players & Metro Arts)
Saint Joan 15 - 18 October 2025 Metro Arts, West End The Island of Misfit players return to the Metro Arts stage in October to present Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw. As a renowned member of the French military, Joan of Arc helped pave the way for modern feminism as we know it, proving... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Lucille MacKellar Has Boy Problems (Lucille MacKellar & Melt Festival)
Lucille MacKellar Has Boy Problems 6-7 November 2025 Good Chat Comedy Club, Petrie Terrace Lucille dreams of having a boyfriend, but despite her beauty and charm, can't seem to find one. The problem can’t be her, right? There must be something else going on… Lucille MacKellar Has Boy Problems is not your typical coming out... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Observatory Theatre Book Launch Bash
Image credit: Lucy Rayner-Toy Observatory Theatre's Book Launch Bash for AusArt Day 23 October 2025 16A Logan Road, The Tailors Bar, Woolloongabba For AusArt Day 2025, local independent theatre company Observatory Theatre is throwing a big bash to celebrate the publication of not one but two of their original works - Disney Off Ice by Oliver Gough... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Wonder (Southern Cross Soloists)
Image supplied by Southern Cross Soloists Wonder 12 October 2025 QPAC Concert Hall, South Bank Step into a world where friendship, love, and artistry intertwine. More than a classical concert, Wonder explores the poignant story of the entwined lives of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms through music, movement and the words of their letters. From Clara’s Romances to Robert’s haunting Ghost... Continue Reading →
Tell Me Something (Davidson Gluyas Productions, Melt Festival, Metro Arts)
Tell Me Something 29 October – 1 November Metro Arts, West End What happens when you just don’t want to tell the truth? Hamish loves Matthew but doesn't want to tell him. Emilie loves Bella but doesn't want to tell herself. Hamish and Bella have known each other since they were kids. They tell each... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Plantapalooza
Plantapolooza at Brisbane Markets, 2023. Photographed by Claudia Baxter Plantapalooza 6am - 12pm, Saturday 11 October 2025 Brisbane Markets, 385 Sherwood Rd, Rocklea Plantapalooza will transform Brisbane Markets into a dream of lush greenery, blooming flowers and garden accessories, inviting local green thumbs to unite in a celebration of spring and all things plants. Located out... Continue Reading →
Review: A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or, How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) (Merrigong Theatre Company, QPAC & Brisbane Festival)
Image credit: Tracey Leigh Images Joshua Hinton’s A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry) was a delicious family history. Alongside his brother Dominic, Hinton told a story about lineage, cultural connection, and searching for a sense of belonging while he cooked his grandmother Mehmeh’s chicken curry live... Continue Reading →
Review: The Chronicles (Stephanie Lake Company, Brisbane Festival)
Photographed by Daniel Boud A spectacular contemporary dance work about the cycle of life and the journey from birth to death, The Chronicles was presented as part of Brisbane Festival by the Melbourne-based Stephanie Lake Company, following its world premiere at Sydney Festival in January. Photographed by Laurent Liotardo From the first uncurling fingers of... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Contours group exhibition (Mitchell Fine Art)
Contours exhibition, photographed by Claudia Baxter Contours 23 September – 18 October 2025 Mitchell Fine Art, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley presents a group exhibition of paintings illuminating the deep layers of ancestral connection between First Nations artists and their traditional homelands. Contours is an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal artworks... Continue Reading →
Review: Bad Nature (Australasian Dance Collective, Club Guy & Roni, Studio Boris Acket, HIIIT, Brisbane Festival & Brisbane Powerhouse)
Bad Nature for Brisbane Festival at The Powerhouse Theatre, photographed by David Kelly A jaw-dropping collaboration between Brisbane’s Australasian Dance Collective and The Netherlands’ Club Guy & Roni, Studio Boris Acket, and HIIIT, Bad Nature was a transportive new work about the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world. Photographed by David... Continue Reading →