Brisbane Pinball & Arcade Collective (BPAC) Showcase 14 - 23 July 2023 BrewDog Brewery and Taproom, 77 Metroplex Avenue, Murarrie Pricing: Unlimited gaming on 100+ games is available for just $10 on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights. Spectating is free at all times, and competitive events are priced individually. The Brisbane Pinball and Arcade Collective... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Capricorn (La Boite Theatre & QPAC)
Sean Dow and Jazleen Latrise as Sam and Ally, photographed by David Kelly. Capricorn 24 July - 12 August 2023 Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove Content warnings: Coarse language, themes of sexual violence, miscarriage, family passing and relationship breakdown. Recommended for ages 15+. A bittersweet play about love, loss, identity, culture, sexuality, and pet fish, will... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Spirited (Ensemble Trivium)
Spirited 17 August 2023 Old Museum, Fortitude Valley Brisbane chamber music collective Ensemble Trivium present an evening of high-spirited, virtuosic and folk inspired Bohemian masterpieces, along with a freshly composed work by one of Brisbane’s favourites, John Rotar. As well as the world premiere of Rotar's Bromeliad Dances for flute, viola & double bass, be... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Alex: A Play with Holograms (La Boite Theatre, QUT, and The Creative Sparks Fund)
Alex: A Play with Holograms 6 - 8 July 2023 Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove Researchers from the Queensland University Technology will debut the world premiere of Alex: A Play with Holograms, a live performance combining traditional theatre practice with cutting edge technology to create a communal augmented reality theatrical experience. A story for brave kids... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Children of the Black Skirt (Lost Child Ensemble & The Curators’ Theatre)
Children of the Black Skirt 12 - 23 July 2023 Christ Church, Milton The Australian bush. Five children stumble upon a ruined orphanage, crossing the threshold into a spirit world haunted by the lingering voices from times past. This gothic fairytale recounts the dislocation of the Australian psyche, its unresolved tensions with its landscape, its... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Observatory Theatre)
Picnic at Hanging Rock 11 - 20 August 2023 Studio1, Yeerongpilly Observatory Theatre will present the iconic Australian mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock, adapted by Tom Wright after Joan Lindsay, at Studio1 in Yeerongpilly this August. The company’s Founder and Creative Producer, Lachlan Driscoll, will be directing the adaptation. Based on Lindsay’s 1967 novel of... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Chopin’s Piano (Musica Viva Australia)
Chopin's Piano 13 July 2023 QPAC Concert Hall, South Bank Musica Viva Australia is thrilled to present Chopin’s Piano, a fusion of chamber music and theatrical performance honouring Frederick Chopin’s revolutionary 24 Preludes, as well as the history of a small, craftsman’s pianino. Pianist Aura Go, a Musica Viva Australia FutureMakers alumnus, returns to the... Continue Reading →
What’s On: The Father (hARTspace and PIP Theatre)
The Father 8 - 24 June 2023 (Thursdays to Saturdays) PIP Theatre, Milton Content warning: depictions of dementia, emotional distress, themes of aging and mortality, family conflict, and may include sensitive language and scene depicting elderly abuse. André is losing his memory. Or is he losing his mind? Perhaps he’s just fine and it’s everybody... Continue Reading →
What’s On: White China (Playlab Theatre)
White China 7 - 17 June 2023 Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm Playlab Theatre’s latest mainstage production, White China, premieres this June at Brisbane Powerhouse, directed by Ian Lawson and starring Tegan Braithwaite, Deborah Faye Lee, Elise Greig, Emily Liu, and Tracey Tainsh (aka Isheeni). The experience of Brisbane’s flooding rivers has been etched... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Proof (Ad Astra)
Proof 15 June - 8 July Ad Astra, Misterton Street, Fortitude Valley On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister,... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Break (The Farm & Cecilia Martin)
Image credit: Jax Oliver Break 21 – 24 June 2023 Metro Arts, West End Content warning: Adult themes, haze, strobe Presented by Metro Arts, this new work from The Farm and Cecilia (Ceci) Martin is an intensely personal exploration of how we define ourselves, what it is to fall apart and how we recover when... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Garrick Ohlsson in recital (Musica Viva Australia)
Image credit: Pier Andrea Morolli Garrick Ohlsson in recital 1 June 2023 Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank Musica Viva Australia is delighted to present Garrick Ohlsson in recital, an exhilarating national tour opening in Brisbane and concluding in Perth, featuring one of the world’s finest pianists. A native of White Plains, New York, Ohlsson has been... Continue Reading →