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A Very Naughty Christmas 21 November - 18 December 2024 La Boite Theatre, Kelvin Grove A Very Naughty Christmas, an adults-only Christmas comedy, returns this silly season to Brisbane, Melbourne, and the Gold Coast. Created in 2017 by Australian theatre maestros Alex Woodward and Daniel Venz for fans of Magic Mike, La Clique and The... Continue Reading →
Biron Bothways as Hamlet, photographed by Creative Futures Photography DragSpeare: Drag Kings do Shakespeare was an entertaining evening of songs and soliloquies, mixing the Bard's poetry with popular music and sending up masculinity and ideas of capital-C culture. Presented as part of MELT Festival 2024, the overarching narrative was that of The Stallion Squad, a... Continue Reading →
Love Lies Bleeding 31 October - 23 November 2024 Ad Astra, Misterton Street, Fortitude Valley This play concerns an artist named Alex Macklin in the last years of his life, and the effect his condition has on his son, Sean, and his second and fourth wives, Toinette and Lia, respectively. After a major second stroke,... Continue Reading →
Clarise Ooi, photographed by Naz Mulla Embodi Theatre has premiered a new bilingual play at PIP Theatre, exploring the intersections of human emotion and artificial intelligence. Written and directed by Amy Chien-Yu Wang, with dramaturgy by Helen Strube, AI May is a bittersweet story of loss and love centred on the tensions between an immigrant... Continue Reading →
Liliana Macarone (Brutus) Lillian Duggan (Caesar) and Rebecca Murphy (Cassius), photographed by Benjamin Prindable Photography Julius Caesar 7 - 24 November 2024 The Avalon Theatre, St Lucia Politics is sport. Sport is politics. And the fight for power is a high-stakes game. When Caesar returns to Rome, riding high on a wave of victories and... Continue Reading →
The Fifth Elephant 19 October – 2 November 210 Petrie Terrace, Petrie Terrace In this stage adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett's 1999 novel by Stephen Briggs, Commander Vimes is sent to the icy, Transylvania-like realm of Uberwald to build trade relations with the Dwarf King. But his mission soon takes a turn as he finds... Continue Reading →
Yoga Play 7 - 23 November 2024 La Boite Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove La Boite Theatre is limbering up to present an Australian-first season of Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play, a tale of downward dog and downward profits, in collaboration with the National Theatre of Parramatta. Brisbane stars Andrea Moor and Thomas Larkin will bring the... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Red Anchor Media CAKE 6 - 16 November 2024 Metro Arts, West Village, West End Join Marie Antoinette’s Royal Court and witness her cascade through parties, PR disasters and debauchery on the road to her inevitable beheading. Returning by popular request for a second serving, CAKE is a provocative comedy, inviting audiences to... Continue Reading →
A Night With The Villains 29 - 31 October 2024 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills A Night With The Villains returns for Halloween – bigger, badder, and boasting an all-new cast of local talent. This musical parody concert promises the ultimate Halloween experience with thrilling performances, dark humour, and spine-tingling villainy. Following its successful 2023... Continue Reading →
Eat Slay Zombie 6 - 9 November 2024 Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Bank Playlab Theatre’s latest mainstage production, written by emerging playwright and Githabul, Migunberri-Yugumbeh woman Alinta McGrady, Eat Slay Zombie is a horror/comedy about colonisation, friendship and state occupation – except its zombies. The zombie apocalypse has finally happened and TikTok is the sole... Continue Reading →
Image credit: RJS Foto and Images by Anderson Midnight at the Cemetery 15 & 16 November 2024 Queensland Multicultural Centre, Kangaroo Point Don't miss out on this hilarious and spooky new production from Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc.®️ This spine-tingling production follows vlogger Nick as he investigates mysterious happenings at Hauntmoor Cemetery. When was the last... Continue Reading →
Cleansed 17 October - 2 November 2024 Holy Trinity Church Hall, Fortitude Valley Content note: Please be advised this production contains simulations of sexual intimacy, extreme sexual & physical violence, drug consumption and suicide themes. In a world stripped bare of mercy and convention, Cleansed transports audiences to a place where love, pain, and redemption... Continue Reading →
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