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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 →
Jesse Richardson (L) and Francis McMahon (R) discuss David Mamet's script, photographed by Fraser Smith A Life in the Theatre 2 - 25 March 2023 Ad Astra, 57 Misterton St, Fortitude Valley From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross comes a tale of two actors exploring the meaning of life. Pierce Gordon will... Continue Reading →
Observatory Theatre has announced a 2023 Season that will explore what the future holds for us, and what we can learn from the past. The three plays programmed for this year invite audiences to consider what it is they would fight for, and what really matters. All performances will take place at Brisbane’s newest creative... Continue Reading →
Bloom Girl 3 - 11 Feburary Talbot Theatre, Thomas Dixon Centre, West End Brisbane independent artist and filmmaker Charli Burrowes will make her national theatre debut in Bloom Girl, a solo show about what it means to be liked, loved, or just real in the social media age. Directed by Elise Lamb, the show is... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Murphy and Rob Pensalfini as Lady and Lord Macbeth. Image by Benjamin Prindable Photography. Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble performed Macbeth for the first time in the company’s 21-year history, presented in the intimate performance space at the Fringe Brisbane Hub in South Brisbane. Directed by Angela Witcher, an ensemble of twelve actors tackled Shakespeare’s shortest... Continue Reading →
Islander 18 - 27 November 2022 PIP Theatre, Savoir Faire, 20 Park Rd, Milton THE MIST UNFURLS. AN ISLAND DIVIDES. A FUTURE IS BORN. A girl stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious stranger onto her beach. Recently... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Murphy and Rob Pensalifini as the Macbeths. Image credit: Whitfield Photo Macbeth 11 - 27 November 2022 Fringe Brisbane Hub, 23 Manning Street, South Brisbane For the first time in the company's 21-year history, Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble will perform William Shakespeare's dark psychological thriller Macbeth. Directed by Angela Witcher, an ensemble of twelve actors... Continue Reading →
Adrift 9 - 19 November 2022 Metro Arts, West End Warnings: Active Participation, Adult Themes, Coarse Language, Periods of darkness, Sexual References, Haze / smoke effects, Loud Noises, Special Effects (Bubbles), Special Effects (Water), Strobe Lighting Effects, Use of Headphones. Become part of the story with this interactive theatre experience exploring human loneliness in aquatic... Continue Reading →
Vivien Wood, Laura Fois, and Nykita O'Keeffe. Image supplied. Power, Language and Love - A Cabaret 4 - 6 November 2022 PIP Theatre, Milton Power, Language and Love is a light-hearted cabaret in three acts that recognises and celebrates everyday struggles in the lives of three women. Starring Laura Fois, Vivien Wood and Nykita O'Keeffe,... Continue Reading →
Felix Jarvis as Felix Turner and Gregory J Wilken as Ned Weeks The Normal Heart 3 - 27 November 2022 Ad Astra, 57 Misterton St, Fortitude Valley Ad Astra concludes their 2022 season with The Normal Heart, a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer which focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New... Continue Reading →
Sandra Harman as Esther and Pip Boyce as Mary, photographed by Felix Lovell. The Bluff 3 - 5 November 2022 Hayward Street Theatre, 57 Hayward St, Stafford The Drawer Productions presents the premiere of a new Australian Gothic work by Brisbane playwright Ada Lukin as part of Fringe Brisbane. A man is missing. Do you... Continue Reading →
Call Girls 15 - 30 October 2022 (Saturday and Sunday performances) Big Fork Theatre Hub, Fortitude Valley Lauren Harvey (actor and improv comedian The Improv Conspiracy and Big Fork Theatre) and Kelly Hodge (actor and award-winning writer, Be Still Media) will debut their witty new workplace comedy Call Girls at Fringe Brisbane, drawing on their... Continue Reading →
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