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Image credit: Daniel Boud Blue 16 May - 1 June 2024 La Boite Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove A poignant exploration of the complexities of growing up, written and performed by Logie and AACTA award winner Thomas Weatherall, Blue debuts at La Boite Theatre following its successful premiere season at Belvoir Street Theatre as part of Sydney... Continue Reading →
Images by Vlad Da Cunha / Vlad Photo Amor 10 - 18 May 2024 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective, the award-winning Sunshine Coast-based contemporary theatre company, proudly announces its newest production, Amor, a devised physical theatre spectacle that delves into the intricate nuances of love's enigmatic essence. Directed by... Continue Reading →
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 →
The Norman Mailer Anecdote 3 - 18 May 2024 Diane Cilento Studio, Queensland Theatre, South Brisbane Queensland Theatre’s inaugural DOOR 3 program kicks off with a blistering legal drama that exposes the Australian public's insatiable appetite for high-profile assault cases. Helen is poised to finally make equity partner at her law firm — that is, until her... 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 →
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 →
Image credit: Morgan Roberts Big Yikes! 13 - 23 March 2024 Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm Big Dreams. Bigger Doubts. Big Yikes! Playlab Theatre’s latest mainstage production, Big Yikes!, premieres this March at the BrisbanePowerhouse. Written by emerging Meanjin playwright Madeleine Border, this is a coming-of-age story that explores the uncertainty of school leaving... Continue Reading →
The Wolves 15 February - 9 March 2024 Ad Astra, 57 Misterton Street, Fortitude Valley A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigate big questions and wage tiny battles with all the vigour of a pack of adolescent warriors. Written by Sarah DeLappe and directed for... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson Pygmalion 2-3 & 9-10 February 2024 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills Hub, 28 Tallowwood Street, Seven Hills Minola Theatre proudly presents Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s classic comedy of class, language and gender politics. When egocentric phonetics professor Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle, he isn’t expecting... Continue Reading →
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