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Queensland Cabaret Festival 24 March - 16 April 2023 Multiple venues including Judith Wright Arts Centre, Metro Arts, and the Old Museum Queensland Cabaret Festival 2023 (Cabfest ’23) asks you to take one step beyond, into the intimate sphere of the brilliant, the bright, the beautiful, and the bewildering. Theatre and music collide in this... Continue Reading →
Tyrone (David Megarrity) and Lesley (Samuel Vincent), photographed by Luke Monsour, Bulimba Studios Presented for one night only at Metro Arts as part of Queensland Cabaret Festival 2022, String: an odd evening with Tyrone and Lesley saw the titular double bass and ukulele duo perform songs from their upcoming seventh album, String, for the first... Continue Reading →
Image supplied String: an odd evening with Tyrone and Lesley 12 March 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Unwinding as a cross between a concert and slide night, Tyrone and Lesley will make your heartstrings ring as they string together 20 years of hits and premiere songs from their new recording String. Tyrone and... Continue Reading →
Review of May 9 performance by Elise Lawrence. Written and directed by Margaret Fisk, Sex, Lies & Betrayal: Memoirs of a Hollywood Star was a glamourous and salacious one-woman cabaret based on the true stories of a 1940’s Hollywood legend (although, the jury is still out on exactly who that is). Beautifully coiffed and with a drink... Continue Reading →
Brisbane Powerhouse MELT Festival Beauty Pageant, Friday, June 28, 2019. Picture: Renae Droop/RDW Photography. MELT: Festival of Queer Arts and Culture 20–30 May 2021 Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm From solidarity through storytelling to confetti-covered cabaret, MELT: Festival of Queer Arts and Culture has torn the wrapping off a spectacular program of events and performances for... Continue Reading →
Photography by Morgan Roberts Steven Oliver’s whirlwind cabaret Bigger & Blacker is sexy, irreverent, and hysterical, as expected, but also deeply personal and moving as he sings about love, loss, and life. Photography by Morgan Roberts Steven Oliver cements himself further as a man of a million talents with this world premiere, a cabaret show... Continue Reading →
Christmas is all around at La Boite with their current season of the raucous and touching cabaret-style Christmas Actually by The Little Red Company. Created by Naomi Price and Adam Brunes, the show features all of the songs from the iconic soundtrack of British romcom Love Actually as well as incorporating some of the film's... Continue Reading →
Tyrone and Lesley in a Spot, produced by Metro Arts and playing at The Loft, Theatre Republic as part of Brisbane Festival, defies genre boundaries and is a wonderfully whimsical hour of music, theatre, and comedy suitable for all ages. This is the kind of wonderfully crafted shows that allows you to leave your grown-up... Continue Reading →
Warmly hosted by the charismatic and multi-talented Marissa Burgess, longest-serving performer of the Moulin Rouge, Cabaret de Paris was an exciting and delighting Parisian-themed revue frothing with feathers and sequins, featuring dazzling costuming, intriguing illusions, and high-energy dancing. The dancing in this 90-minute production was, frankly, of a higher calibre than the Moulin Rouge dancers when... Continue Reading →
You never know your luck in a medium-sized city! Tripod meets Tenacious D meets pub rock in the 5-piece Dustbin Hoffmans, and their show Brisbanality is part rock, part cabaret, all brilliant Brisbane. Performed in the heritage-listed, renovated substation at Woolloongabba, Brisbanality combined storytelling, music, and pieces of Brisbane history. The band played against... Continue Reading →
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