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The Cutting Cove Currawongs. Photographed by Pia Johnson. Having premiered last month in Melbourne, the home of AFL, 37 now brings its monumental energy and atmosphere to Queensland audiences in the Bille Brown Theatre. Written by Nathan Maynard and directed by Queensland Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director (First Nations) Isaac Drandic – who also collaborated on... Continue Reading →
(L to R) Liam Hartley, Fiona Kennedy, and Jett Robson in Loot. Ad Astra presents Joe Orton's fast-paced and razor-sharp dark farce Loot, directed by Jennifer Flowers with assistant direction and production management by Liam Wallis. Compulsive truth-teller Hal McLeavey (Jett Robson) and his lover Dennis (Liam Hartley), an undertaker, have robbed a bank and... Continue Reading →
Kevin Spink and Sophia Emberson-Bain (front) and Anna McGahan (back), photographed by Stephen Henry La Boite have opened their 2024 season with the return of Patrick Marber's engrossing and entangled drama Closer, directed by La Boite’s Artistic Director Courtney Stewart. Closer weaves a twisted web of deception and desire that ensnares four Londoners over the... Continue Reading →
Southern Cross Soloists' Divine Alchemy, photographed by Darren Thomas Southern Cross Soloists (SXS) opened 2024 with Divine Alchemy, a concert full of strong emotional imagery and a program inspired by the transfiguration of suffering into beautiful art. Alongside classical composers like Mozart, Bach, and Debussy, Divine Alchemy included a number of premieres honouring loved ones... Continue Reading →
Rijen Laine as Jake and Tegan Braithwaite as Ishtar. Imagery supplied by PIP Theatre. Presented at PIP Theatre, the provocatively-titled Banging Denmark is an anti-rom-com about toxic online communities, the blurry line between attraction and revulsion, and the timeless pursuit of human connection. Written by Australian social commentator Van Badham, the play made its world... Continue Reading →
Tainika Kane-Potaka (left, back) as #13, Emily Marszalek (centre back) as #46, Madeline Armit (right, back) as #11, and Sharnee Tones (front) as #25. Image credit: Justin Harrison Ad Astra have kicked off 2024 with Sarah DeLappe’s drama The Wolves, transforming their black box theatre into an indoor soccer pitch where all the guts and... Continue Reading →
Bianca Butler Reynolds and Ben Snaith as Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins, photographed by Kris Anderson (Images by Anderson) Minola Theatre presents George Bernard Shaw’s classic tale of class and culture, Pygmalion, as their first production of 2024, directed by Kat Dekker. First performed in 1913, the play takes its title from the Greek... Continue Reading →
Umberto Clerici conducts the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, photographed by Darren Thomas Queensland Symphony Orchestra closed the 2023 season with their tenth and final Maestro concert, featuring a program of musical works under half an hour each, from Classical heavyweights Rossini, Mozart, Schubert, and Prokofiev. Conducted by QSO Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici, Micro Masterpieces began with... Continue Reading →
Otto Trausk conducts the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, photographed by Stephen Stewart Queensland Symphony Orchestra curated a program of “life affirming music” for their ninth Maestro concert of 2023, Heartland Classics, including works by renowned composers from Central Europe: Kodály, Mendelssohn, and Dvořák. Heartland Classics was conducted by Dutch conductor and Music Director of Vancouver Symphony... Continue Reading →
Guest soloist, pianist Jayson Gillham, and guest conductor Joseph Swensen with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, photographed by Joel Tronoff As the name suggests, Queensland Symphony Orchestra presented two concerts featuring works by Ludwig Van Beethoven and Sir Edward Elgar in July. Guest conductor Joseph Swensen led the orchestra with dynamism and large, forceful gestures, and acclaimed... Continue Reading →
Content warnings: Discussions of abortion and emotional abuse, coarse language, sexual references Inscape Assembly premiered a brilliant new full-length musical, Checked Out, at the Merthyr Uniting Church in New Farm for a limited season. Directed by Haley Meekan, with assistant direction by Mak Harris, Checked Out followed the overworked and underpaid employees of Greenmart Grocers... Continue Reading →
Sergio Tiempo and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, photographed by Sarah Marshall For their aptly named Magnificent Piano Maestro concert, Queensland Symphony Orchestra welcomed back former Artist in Residence, Venezuelan-Argentine pianist Sergio Tiempo, to perform Grieg’s piano concerto. Tiempo played the brand new, one-of-a-kind Steinway & Sons Grand piano that QSO have been fundraising for since... Continue Reading →
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