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Head Over Heels ensemble Ally Hickey, Jaya Fisher-Smith, Bella Gordon, Chloe Kiloh, Sam Caruana, and Nathaniel Savy, photographed by Brit Creative. Head Over Heels 31 May - 1 June 2024 Ipswich Civic Centre, 50 Nicholas Street, Ipswich QLD 4305 Groundbreaking queer musical comedy Head Over Heels will premiere in Ipswich for a limited season.A bold,... Continue Reading →
Thomas Weatherall in Blue, photographed by Farley Ward / Shutterstorm Photography Following a successful premiere season at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre in 2023, Thomas Weatherall has brought his affecting one-person show to Brisbane audiences in La Boite's Roundhouse Theatre. Blue is the story of Mark, a young man who has had wave after wave of... Continue Reading →
Brisbane Arts Theatre bids farewell to its home on Petrie Terrace with a return to its most-performed production: Shakespeare’s fairyland comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. Brisbane Arts Theatre has been based at the theatre on Petrie Terrace for 70 years, and this 2024 production is the seventh time they have staged A Midsummer Night's Dream.... Continue Reading →
Merrily We Roll Along 16 May - 8 June 2024 Ad Astra, Fortitude Valley Ad Astra presents Merrily We Roll Along, a 1981 American musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. Merrily We Roll Along begins in the present and moves backwards, tracing the lives of wealthy, jaded... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Daniel Boud Blue 16 May - 1 June 2024 La Boite Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove A poignant exploration of the complexities of growing up, written and performed by Logie and AACTA award winner Thomas Weatherall, Blue debuts at La Boite Theatre following its successful premiere season at Belvoir Street Theatre as part of Sydney... Continue Reading →
Christopher Sommers as Marshall and Zoë Houghton as Helen, photographed by Stephen Henry Searing domestic drama The Norman Mailer Anecdote has made its world premiere at Queensland Theatre’s Diane Cilento Studio. The playwrighting debut of award-winning local screenwriter Anthony Mullins, The Norman Mailer Anecdote follows one high-achieving Brisbane family over a night of drinking and... Continue Reading →
The X Collective opened their 2024 season with a devastating duet of shattering psyches in Tonight with Donny Stixx and Dark Vanilla Jungle. Wayne McPhee directed these back-to-back Philip Ridley plays, each focused on the experiences and delusions of a traumatised young person and delivered as a deeply engaging monologue. Philip Ridley is an English... Continue Reading →
Images by Vlad Da Cunha / Vlad Photo Amor 10 - 18 May 2024 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective, the award-winning Sunshine Coast-based contemporary theatre company, proudly announces its newest production, Amor, a devised physical theatre spectacle that delves into the intricate nuances of love's enigmatic essence. Directed by... Continue Reading →
John Waters and Danel MacPherson for The Woman In Black (c) James Reiser The Woman in Black 30 April - 11 May Playhouse Theatre, QPAC, South Bank Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story The Woman in Black comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation, promising to be a terrifying live theatre experience and a brilliantly... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson A collaboration between three local theatre companies, 35MM: A Musical Exhibition showcases an extraordinarily talented cast of Brisbane performers in Ryan Scott Oliver’s unconventional song cycle. Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson 35MM: A Musical Exhibition is a sung-through musical anthology of sixteen songs, each... Continue Reading →
The Norman Mailer Anecdote 3 - 18 May 2024 Diane Cilento Studio, Queensland Theatre, South Brisbane Queensland Theatre’s inaugural DOOR 3 program kicks off with a blistering legal drama that exposes the Australian public's insatiable appetite for high-profile assault cases. Helen is poised to finally make equity partner at her law firm — that is, until her... Continue Reading →
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 →
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