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Observatory Theatre Creative Producer Lachlan Driscoll launches the 2024 season, photographed by Lucy Rayner-Toy. Observatory Theatre has launched their 2024 season, unveiling a year of new works by Brisbane-based playwrights and with a strong focus on creative development. The season will open with a staged reading and post-show discussion of The Cane, a "hauntingly beautiful... Continue Reading →
The cast of Rent, photographed by Wendell Teodoro Rent 27 January – 11 February Playhouse Theatre, QPAC The multi-Tony Award winning rock musical by Jonathan Larson, Rent, will embark on an Australian tour in 2024, opening in Brisbane and moving on to Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth and Canberra. Step into the vibrant streets of New York... Continue Reading →
Content warnings: Discussions of abortion and emotional abuse, coarse language, sexual references Inscape Assembly premiered a brilliant new full-length musical, Checked Out, at the Merthyr Uniting Church in New Farm for a limited season. Directed by Haley Meekan, with assistant direction by Mak Harris, Checked Out followed the overworked and underpaid employees of Greenmart Grocers... Continue Reading →
John Grey as Ebenezer Scrooge & Dominic Tennison as the ghost of Jacob Marley Brisbane Arts Theatre present a hearty new retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by Tallulah M.E. Grey, with John Grey, who also plays the lead role. We were guided to our seats by an usher holding a... Continue Reading →
Julia Johnson as Irene Ruddock in A Lady of Letters, photographed by Naz Mulla Hummingbird Theatre Company presented two of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues at the Latvian Hall, Woolloongabba, for a limited season, starring Julia Johnson and Amanda McErlean and directed and designed by Rhys Becks. The Talking Heads are a series of dramatic... Continue Reading →
Tiana Varcoe as Pia Shim and Connor Scoble as The Devil, photographed by Emma Stratton Content warnings: coarse/offensive language, horror, mature and controversial themes, morbid humor, references and depictions of sexual assault, religious themes, themes of trauma, violence, haze/smoke effects, and loud noises. Polymorphic Productions presents Clive Barker’s marathon play The History of the Devil... Continue Reading →
Shakespeare Pick and (re)Mix 18 & 25 November 203 The Jayco Lunchbox, George Clayton Park, 55 Upper Esplanade, Manly QLD 4179 Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo, and Juliet walk into a bar… Calling Shakespeare lovers, Shakespeare loathers, and everyone in between! Come on down to The Jayco Lunchbox and join us for a dose of rambunctious laughter,... Continue Reading →
The cast of IRL, photographed by Morgan Roberts Content warnings: coarse language and sexual references. Recommended for ages 15+. La Boite closes 2023 with the world premiere of Lewis Treston’s fan-tastic romantic comedy IRL, the third and final work in their season of world premieres by Australian playwrights. Directed by Sanja Simić, who has worked... Continue Reading →
Spamalot 17 - 26 November 2023 Twelfth Night Theatre, Bowen Hills Hold onto your coconuts and prepare for a hilarious adventure and musical madness as Monty Python's Spamalot gallops into Brisbane, presented by Paterson Productions. This musical promises to deliver classic Monty Python comedy, catchy tunes, and enough laughter to leave your cheeks sore, starring... Continue Reading →
Triple Threat - A Cabaret 23 & 30 November, 9 & 21 December 2023 PIP Theatre, Milton Presented as part of PIP Theatre's upcoming Toucan Club, Laura Fois' second full-length cabaret Triple Threat promises to be an explosion of comedy, music and passion across horizons. Triple Threat is a fast one-hour comical progression where "three... Continue Reading →
The cast of The Bed Party at PIP Theatre, photographed by Claudio Kirac Set in one sharehouse bedroom over the course of a weekend, new Australian play The Bed Party follows four housemates (and one prodigal ex-housemate) as they navigate love, sex, and relationships with support and solidarity. Written and directed by Sophia Davidson Gluyas,... Continue Reading →
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 10-25 November 2023 KSP Theatre, Burpengary Recommended for audiences 16+ Sweeney Todd is a wronged barber hell-bent on revenge. When he moves in with local piemaker, Mrs Lovett, his thirst for blood increases with his body count. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett's pies are meatier than ever... Ghostlight Theatre... Continue Reading →
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