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Hedda by Queensland Theatre is now playing!

The story: Hedda Gabler is railing against her life. She didn’t marry drug slinger George Tesman so she could play housewife in a monstrous Gold Coast mansion with white leather couches, blingy chandeliers and endless rounds of Aperol Spritz. She wants something much more and now her old flame, Ejlert Løvborg, is out of prison and off the junk. Is he about to slice off a piece of George’s empire? Maybe Hedda can pull some strings to work this to her advantage. The story is brought ...

The King And I: from the Palladium Review

Rendered in high definition and featuring the best seats in the house, the presentation is almost faultless. Kelli O’Hara as Anna is strong of voice and her expressive stage craft is outstanding. Seeing Ruthie Ann Miles return to stage as Lady Thiang is very inspiring after the tragedies she’s had to endure and Ken Watanabe puts in a workman like take on the King of Siam. The songs are as memorable as ever and the young cast are uniformly cute.   //   The multi-award ...

Depthless is coming to Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art!

“Depthless is a brilliantly navigated transit along the edges of conflict and power, a meditation on who we are, how we connect and the many ways we fail to.   //   With stunning songwriting by multi-ARIA award winning musician Ben Ely (Regurgitator), performed by Guy Webster and with powerful dance by choreographer Kate Harman, Depthless is both remarkably vulnerable and explosively urgent.” Depthless November 29 - December 1 2018 Judith Wright Centre for ...

Win double tickets to Cluedo! The Interactive Game: The Christmas Edition!

Was it Professor Plum, in the conservatory with the candlestick, or Miss Scarlett, in the billiard room with the dagger? Cluedo, the adored murder-mystery board game, comes to life in Brisbane for an immersive evening of twists, turns, melodrama and bloody execution on December 8 where audience guests are called upon to collect the clues and solve the crime. The scene of the scandal is Fortitude Valley heritage gem Baedeker Wine Bar, the suspects a cohort of lavishly-costumed charac...

Two Man Tarantino is making is Australian debut at Brisbane Powerhouse!

Written by the co-creator of the international comedy sensation The Naked Magicians, Brisbane’s own Christopher Wayne, the national premiere season of Two Man Tarantino in Brisbane promises to be an hilarious and nostalgic theatrical experience for anyone who ever stepped inside a video store. And for anyone who loves a good Quentin Tarantino epic! So, what’s it all about?? Two people. One video store. Every cult classic. Set in a video store on the last night of video stores, one ...

Check out the fearless new look and 2019 season for Opera Queensland!

With a vision to lead a change in opera, while continuing to enrich the lives of their diverse audience, Opera Queensland’s Season 2019 offers a fearless line up of works, including A Flowering Tree, Tosca, Orpheus and Eurydice and Verdi Requiem, a collaboration with Bleach* Festival - celebrating the classics and bringing to life new works. In his first season as Artistic Director of Opera Queensland, Patrick Nolan presents three main stage productions, along with regional and school ...

Neon Tiger Theatre Review

Andy is a reductionist who sees the world in simple terms, while Arisa over intellectualise things and has strong opinions on just about every topic. Contrasting the difference between the perception of intent and interpretation of action, Andy and Arisa continue to see the world in dramatically different ways, even as the begin to fall in love. The third element of this union is the city of Bangkok, with its sights and sounds and smells. It is an exotic location and one that promotes a ...

Chasing Smoke is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse

Both playful and brave, Chasing Smoke is the spark that ignites the question ‘Who am I?’, when you have 40,000 years of history to sift through in search of an answer. Take a glimpse into the world’s oldest living culture told through the artform of contemporary circus.   //   A dynamic, fast-moving and touching performance, Chasing Smoke stokes the fires of identity, challenge and success for a unique cohort of young Australians. Chasing Smoke was made possible ...

Experience the adult gap-year you never knew you needed with Neon Tiger – coming soon to La Boîte!

Set to the beat of Bangkok’s back alleys and backpacker nightclubs, Neon Tiger is the  love-child of playwright Julia-Rose Lewis (Samson, This Feral Life), musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff (Tonightly, Vivid White), and director Kat Henry (The Wind in The Willows, Constellations).   //   Presented in association with Brisbane Powerhouse, this feel-good up-beat comedy features eight original pop songs penned by Green Room Award-winning comedian Cosgriff, reminiscent of ...

Frogman is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse

At the crossroads of contemporary performance and cutting-edge technology, Frogman is curious directive’s coming-of-age thriller exploring the fragility of the childhood imagination with audiences experiencing a fictoinal 1995 murder rexamined in 360 degree virtual reality. A multi-sensory event, presented at Brisbane Powerhouse’s Visy Theatre as part of Brisbane International Film Festival 2018 (BIFF), Frogman submerges the audience deep into the Great Barrier Reef in a sensory-im...