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Image credit: Jade Ferguson @visualpoetssociety. Provided by Opera Queensland. Content and trigger warning: This production contains strong coarse language and adult themes. After being postponed for a year due to COVID-19, Lorelei has finally made it to the QPAC Concert Hall and it is a witty, provocative, political work of operatic cabaret that turns a... Continue Reading →
Lauren Roche as Charlotte Corday in The Revolutionists. Images: NAZ MULLA. Content and trigger warning: This production contains coarse language, and spoken references to historical violence. The Curators’ Theatre have opened their 2021 season with the Australian premiere of The Revolutionists by American playwright Lauren Gunderson. Directed and designed by Michael Beh, this metatheatrical dramatic... Continue Reading →
Image supplied by Aruga PR Curiocity Brisbane 12-28 March Various locations throughout Brisbane City and South Bank From interactive and immersive installations to thought-provoking conversations, Curiocity Brisbane has unveiled an intriguing program of curious events and ideas that will spark inspiration from 12 to 28 March. The 17-day celebration of science, art and technology transforms Brisbane... Continue Reading →
Lorelei 6 - 13 March 2021 QPAC Concert Hall This production contains coarse language and adult themes. Recommended for ages 15+. By arrangement with Victorian Opera, Opera Queensland presents the much-anticipated Queensland premier of new Australian opera cabaret Lorelei, after being postponed in 2020. The sumptuous, female-led production tells the story of the Lorelei, three sirens... Continue Reading →
Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble Artistic Director, and director of A Sleep of Prisoners, Rob Pensalfini. Image supplied by Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. A Sleep of Prisoners 4 March 2021 St John's Cathedral, Brisbane City Tickets $15 A slice of Queensland entertainment history will be recreated next month with a performance tribute to the 60th anniversary of the... Continue Reading →
This Wide Night 18 February - 7 March 2021 Backdock Arts, 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley Starring Julia Johnson and Shardé Anne, with direction and design by Michael Beh and produced by Terry Hansen, This Wide Night explores the importance and uniqueness of relationships formed in prison: how they can, or perhaps cannot, exist in another... Continue Reading →
Brisbane Improv Festival 18-21 February, 2021 The Ron Hurley Theatre and Seven Hills Hub Local comedy institution Big Fork Theatre has launched the inaugural Brisbane Improv Festival, featuring 4 full nights of live shows showcasing the best comedians and improvisers from Brisbane and beyond. Improvised comedy (improv) is a comedic artform where everything is made up... Continue Reading →
QSO Conductor Laureate Johannes Fritzsch and pianist Daniel de Borah. Photographed by Peter Wallis. It was a delight to be able to return QPAC’s Concert Hall on Friday night for Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s stirring final Maestro concert of 2020 - Beethoven’s Emperor. As well as being the 2020 season finale, this concert marks the end... Continue Reading →
Patrick Shearer as Davey. Photographed by Naz Mulla. Content and trigger warning: Please note that this production contains, and therefore this review may refer to: domestic, sexual, and homophobic violence, mature themes, spoken references to sex, and coarse language. The Curators Theatre have christened Brisbane’s newest indie performance venue with a passionate production of Vincent... Continue Reading →
June 10 - July 18 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery 86 Arthur St, Fortitude Valley With the easing of restrictions and galleries welcoming back art enthusiasts, Mitchell Fine Art presents a dynamic exhibition featuring two of Australia’s great landscape artists, showing in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, from June 10. Born in the remote centre of Australia in... Continue Reading →
From over 220 entries for the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2020–21 and three finalists announced earlier this year, Brisbane writer Steve Pirie has been announced the winner with Return to the Dirt, a powerful and gently humorous meditation on what it means to die in the 21st century and what a final act of love... Continue Reading →
Play Club: The Turquoise Elephant by Stephen Carleton Tuesday 23 June, 7.30pm Via Zoom webinar Tickets: Free, bookings required Queensland Theatre’s Play Club continues with the live reading of The Turquoise Elephant by Stephen Carleton (Bastard Territory) over Zoom webinar, a “shockingly black, black, black political farce" that is "urgent, contemporary and perilously close to being... Continue Reading →
