Nicholas Tam and Kat Augustakis, photographed by Paul Lee String Revolution 19 & 20 October 2024 Honour Productions, 3/61 Holdsworth Street, Coorparoo From Rachmaninoff to Bon Jovi, String Revolution is an eclectic showcase of the bowed string instrument and its limitless potential in music throughout the ages. In an ever-changing musical environment, string instruments like... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Cleansed (The X Collective)
Cleansed 17 October - 2 November 2024 Holy Trinity Church Hall, Fortitude Valley Content note: Please be advised this production contains simulations of sexual intimacy, extreme sexual & physical violence, drug consumption and suicide themes. In a world stripped bare of mercy and convention, Cleansed transports audiences to a place where love, pain, and redemption... Continue Reading →
What’s On: The Broadway Jam (JDProCo & PIP Theatre)
The Broadway Jam 11 & 12 October 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton The Broadway Jam will present a special night of musical theatre and musical theatre “adjacent” songs at Milton’s PIP Theatre, showcasing 10 artists. With a performance format affectionately known as a “park & bark” (voice and piano), The Broadway Jam aims to cover every... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Curtains (Savoyards Musical Comedy Society)
Curtains 21 September - 5 October 2024 Iona Performing Arts Centre, Wynnum West From the creators of Chicago and Cabaret, Curtains is a hilarious musical theatre parody of whodunnit classics. Savoyards Musical Comedy Society presents this fully staged, live orchestra production showcasing some of Brisbane’s finest performers in a strictly limited season. Intelligent and funny, Curtains is a great night out for music... Continue Reading →
What’s On: AI May (Embodi Theatre & PIP Theatre)
Clarise Ooi and Anna Yen, photographed by Naz Mulla AI May 17 - 27 October 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton AI May is an original bilingual theatre production by Embodi Theatre, and all performances will be surtitled in Traditional Chinese and English. Set in Brisbane 2035, this poignant drama blends futuristic realism, movement, artificial intelligence, and multimedia... Continue Reading →
What’s On: 10 Reasons (VOX Productions)
10 Reasons 19 September 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton For one night only, 10 Reasons showcases and celebrates the talent of Brisbane's female creative community, with 10 female performers bringing to life 10 one-acts of 10 minutes each. 10 Reasons will star Virginia Gray, Stephanie O’Shea, Nicky Whichelow, Peta Townend, Kailan Tyler-Moss, Lara Hinton, Traci Sumpter,... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Speaking in Tongues (Ad Astra)
Speaking in Tongues 5 - 28 September 2024 Ad Astra, Fortitude Valley Nine lives weave together in ways known and unknown in Andrew Bovell’s piercing drama, Speaking in Tongues. Leon is married to Sonja, Jane is married to Pete. By chance, each spouse meets the other’s one night and wind up in motel rooms. Pete... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Not Really Billy: a celebration of Billy Bragg’s Workers Playtime
Not Really Billy: a celebration of Billy Bragg's Workers Playtime 21 September 2024 It's Still A Secret, South Brisbane Join award-winning playwright and musician David Megarrity (Friends of the Iguana, The Goodbye Notes, Tyrone & Lesley) and Samuel Vincent (Trichotomy, Estampa, Tyrone & Lesley) alongside emerging singer songwriter Isabel Yamazaki for a great leaping celebration of Billy... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Mirra Whale exhibition, Quiet and Still (Mitchell Fine Art)
Quiet and Still exhibition, photographed by Josef Ruckli Quiet and Still 3 - 28 September 2024 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley Archibald Prize finalist Mirra Whale returns to Mitchell Fine Art with her third solo show exhibition of still life paintings from 3 September. The works in the show were inspired and created during... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Luminescence (Ensemble Trivium)
Luminsecence 28 September 2024 Old Government House, QUT Gardens Point Campus Float away from the mundane and find yourself adrift in an ethereal soundscape of some of the most beautiful works written for flute, viola and harp. Experience a soothing Telemann Sonata, Ravel’s luscious Sonatine en Trio and bathe in the exquisite stillness of Takemitsu’s And I Knew ‘twas Wind,... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Camerata, Lou Bennett & Lior: Ngapa William Cooper
Camerata, Lou Bennett & Lior: Ngapa William Cooper Saturday, 7 September 2024 Concert Hall, QPAC, South Bank Lior, Nigel Westlake and Lou Bennett’s moving song cycle Ngapa William Cooper, exploring the extraordinarily powerful story of Yorta Yorta man Uncle William Cooper, will make its Queensland premiere as part of Brisbane Festival. Ngapa William Cooper was... Continue Reading →
Review: Scenes From A Yellow Peril (The Reaction Theory & BIPOC Arts Australia)
Photographed by Nathaniel Knight Presented by The Reaction Theory and BIPOC Arts Australia, Nathan Joe’s Scenes From A Yellow Peril is a theatrical mosaic that pulses with passion, and a powerful commentary on the experience of trans-Tasman Asian identity. This is the second production in Queensland Theatre's inaugural DOOR 3 program, which provides opportunities for... Continue Reading →