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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 →
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 →
Jessica Pratt as Lucia, photographed by Murray Summerville Presented as part of Opera Queensland’s inaugural Brisbane Bel Canto festival, Lucia di Lammermoor is a pared-back production that serves to showcase the astonishing virtuosity of starring soprano Jessica Pratt. Lucia di Lammermoor is a three-act tragic opera by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was... 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 →
(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 →
Juliette Milne as Lorrie/Loxie, photographed by Stephen Henry Emerging playwright Madeleine Border's play Big Yikes! made its world premiere at the Brisbane Powerhouse, presented by Playlab Theatre and directed by Playlab Artistic Director Ian Lawson. A play about coming of age and finding your feet in adulthood, Big Yikes! included some excellent comedy and commentary... 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 →
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