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Whitefella Yella Tree 23 October - 8 November 2025 Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove A timeless love story, infused with culture, history and identity, plays out on the Roundhouse Theatre stage when the award-winning Whitefella Yella Tree makes its Queensland premiere. It is a story of first love, of Ty and Neddy, two teenage boys who... Continue Reading →
Saint Joan 15 - 18 October 2025 Metro Arts, West End The Island of Misfit players return to the Metro Arts stage in October to present Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw. As a renowned member of the French military, Joan of Arc helped pave the way for modern feminism as we know it, proving... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Lucy Rayner-Toy Observatory Theatre's Book Launch Bash for AusArt Day 23 October 2025 16A Logan Road, The Tailors Bar, Woolloongabba For AusArt Day 2025, local independent theatre company Observatory Theatre is throwing a big bash to celebrate the publication of not one but two of their original works - Disney Off Ice by Oliver Gough... Continue Reading →
Tell Me Something 29 October – 1 November Metro Arts, West End What happens when you just don’t want to tell the truth? Hamish loves Matthew but doesn't want to tell him. Emilie loves Bella but doesn't want to tell herself. Hamish and Bella have known each other since they were kids. They tell each... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Bower and John Leary in The Platypus, photographed by Mark Gambino Francis Greenslade’s The Platypus is a metatheatrical two-hander that puts a genre-hopping spin on the kitchen sink drama. Jessica and Richard’s marriage is crumbling. Richard is healing from a vasectomy, and resents Jess for suggesting it. Jess feels unwanted, and seeks excitement in... Continue Reading →
The Playground in the Sky 22 - 25 September 2025 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills Play on Stage presents The Playground in the Sky, written by Brisbane writer Harry Fritsch. This theatre experience for kids, families, and adults provides insight into childhood resilience and imagination, inspired by the 2022 floods in South East Queensland. With... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Kenn Santos THAT Production Company brought Clare Barron’s Dance Nation to Metro Arts, a powerfully, truthfully complex coming-of-age story framed by the trials and triumphs of a troupe of teenaged dancers. Directed by Timothy Wynn, with assistant direction and choreography by Jennifer B Ashley, Dance Nation follows a group of young people on... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Benjamin Prindable Photography Lose yourself in the enchanted forest of A Midsummer Night's Dream, brought to life with music, mischief, and magic by the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. In this Shakespearean comedy, four young lovers find themselves in the forest outside of Athens – Hermia loves Lysander (reimagined in this production as Lysandra) but... Continue Reading →
A Midsummer Night's Dream 15 - 30 August 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton “The course of true love never did run smooth…” On a midsummer night, four young lovers—embroiled in a love quadrangle—escape the constraints of the city and flee into the woods just outside Athens. There, the line between the real world and the fairy... Continue Reading →
The Dragon Queen of Argos 15 August - 6 September 2025 'The Barney', 28 St Barnabas Place, Red Hill For mature audiences - find more details on The Curator's website Written & directed by Michael Beh, the second play in the Post Dramatic Troy Disorder trilogy pays homage to Aeschylus, Charles Mee’s Remaking Project +... Continue Reading →
All Shook Up 1 - 23 August 2025 Pavilion Theatre, Beenleigh Showgrounds, James Street, Beenleigh The music of Elvis comes alive in All Shook Up, presented in Beenleigh by award-winning community theatre company Phoenix Ensemble. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, All Shook Up follows a small Midwestern town that is thrown into a frenzy with the arrival of Chad,... Continue Reading →
(L to R) Dana Summer, Izabela Wasilewska, Rebel Star, Deidre Grace, Isaiah Harrison, and Greg Scurr (front), photographed by Jade Ellis PIP Theatre's Queensland-flavoured production of Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, adapted from the translation by Ed Emery, turns the force of Fo’s ferocious wit onto local history. Accidental Death of an Anarchist... Continue Reading →
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