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Jason Klarwein, photographed by Chris Patrick Hansen Every Brilliant Thing 4 - 21 October 2023 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West Village, West End The Queensland premiere of Every Brilliant Thing promises a poignant yet buoyant interactive theatrical experience, inviting audiences to consider the small joys and everyday moments of beauty that make life brilliant.... Continue Reading →
David West as Harold Hill and Jeremiah Rees as Winthrop, photographed by Sharyn Hall The Music Man 23 September - 7 October 2023 Iona Performing Arts Centre, Lindum With music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, The Music Man has been entertaining audiences for decades, winning multiple Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Revival of... Continue Reading →
An official still from the film Life is Beautiful The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) 14 - 17 September 2023 Elizabeth Street Picture Theatre, Brisbane City The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) returns in 2023, showcasing an impressive line-up of highly acclaimed and captivating Korean films across genres and showcasing the brilliance and diversity of... Continue Reading →
Pallas Sister Rising 24 - 27 August 2023 Backdock Arts, Fortitude Valley We don’t see shit like us on the TV. You can call it bizarre, I call it fucking scary. Pallas Sister Rising is a raw new work by emerging Australian playwright Grace Wilson, directed by El Waddingham. Taking the myth of Pallas Athena... Continue Reading →
Checked Out 25 - 26 August 2023 Merthyr Rd Uniting Church, New Farm Content warnings: discussions of abortion and emotional abuse, coarse language, sexual references Checked Out is a new musical comedy presented by Inscape Assembly that invites you into the inner lives of several young employees through the trials and tribulations of both the... Continue Reading →
Chimene Steele-Prior and Lucie, photographed by David Kelly Warning: Drones, strobe lighting, haze and occasional high sound pressure levels. Australasian Dance Collective brought dancers and drones together as onstage equals with their new contemporary dance work Lucie In the Sky, which made its world premiere at the QPAC Playhouse in May. Based in Brisbane, ADC continues... Continue Reading →
The Penelopiad 25 August - 10 September 2023 PIP Theatre, Milton “Now that I am dead I know everything…” The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble will bring Margaret Atwood’s epic novella-turned-play, The Penelopiad to Brisbane with PIP Theatre, directed by Rebecca Murphy. Penelope, dutiful wife of Odysseus and less beautiful cousin of Helen, is ready to tell... Continue Reading →
Così fan tutte 10 - 26 August 2023 QPAC Playhouse, South Bank Opera Queensland will present the third and final instalment of the Mozart – Da Ponte trilogy with Mozart's provocative opera, Così fan tutte, at the Playhouse this August. Greek Maestra Zoe Zeniodi returns to Brisbane to lead the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the cast... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Julian Palma ITEM 17 - 19 August 2023 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Brisbane’s Dance Masala Bollywood Dance Company flips the script on Indian idealised romance and storytelling tropes with ITEM, a knowing love letter to the iconic institution of Bollywood. Inspired by personal letters, messages and interviews collected from hundreds... Continue Reading →
Viva Violin 5 August 2023 QPAC Concert Hall, South Bank Camerata will present an enchanting evening of chamber music by Mendelssohn and Rossini, featuring Queensland-born violinist Catherina Lee, home from Vienna, for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and performed, as always for Camerata, without a conductor. Rossini's famed Barber of Seville Overture will open the performance, diving straight into... Continue Reading →
Top Girls 20 July - 6 August Ad Astra, 57 Misterton St, Fortitude Valley Set in the early 1980s, Top Girls depicts the lifestyle and life choices of its central character, Marlene. A successful career woman, who’s just received a major promotion, who indisputably fought her way to the top to get it - Marlene’s... Continue Reading →
Beginning 13 - 29 July 2023 PIP Theatre, Park Road, Milton Set in the aftermath of Laura's housewarming party at her new flat in London, Danny, having attended simply as the plus one of a friend, is the last remaining guest. Laura (Crystal Arons) is 38, single, childless and with no immediate family; Danny (Jesse... Continue Reading →
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