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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 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 →
35MM: A Musical Exhibition 19 April - 3 May 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton A picture is worth 1,000 words — what about a song? 35MM: A Musical Exhibition is a unique multimedia musical, written and composed by Ryan Scott Oliver, that pairs each lyrical narrative with a photograph by Matthew Murphy, crafting a tapestry of... Continue Reading →
Dark Vanilla Jungle & Tonight with Donny Stixx 11 - 26 April 2024 Holy Trinity Church Hall, 141 Brookes St, Fortitude Valley The X Collective presents a double bill of Philip Ridley plays to open 2024 - bold, evocative, and unapologetically honest, these plays invite you to confront the depths of the human experience in... 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 →
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 →
Frankenstein 16 March - 20 April Brisbane Arts Theatre, Petrie Terrace Board the Prometheus, an exploration vessel trapped in the shifting ice of the Northern Pole with an unexpected shipmate brought aboard… a man in pursuit of his own demons and a creature of his own creation. This amateur production follows the story, based on... Continue Reading →
Banging Denmark 8 - 23 March 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton Jake Newhouse is a pickup artist who sells seduction techniques to the lovelorn men of the internet. Ish Madigan is a feminist academic whose life has been destroyed by male internet trolls. They are natural enemies…until Jake grows desperate for a favour. He’s developed a... 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 →
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