The Great Gatsby: An Immersive Theatrical Production is coming to Brisbane!
The team at Viral Ventures (Beyond Cinema, Wonderland Bar, The Wizard’s Den) have brought their latest offering to Brisbane and audiences are loving it! Inspired by the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Immersive Theatrical Production blurs the boundaries of conventional theatre and allows audiences to explore and immerse themselves in another world.
Led by an exciting ensemble cast, this production includes live music, burlesque, exquisite singing, tap dancing, moving ...
Death In A Statesman is coming to the Judith Wright Centre this November!
You had better get your story straight and your alibi sorted for the November premiere of Death In A Statesman. After the success of the award-winning The Longest Minute, debase creatives Bridget Boyle and Robert Kronk along with regular debase collaborator Allen Laverty - are turning their hand to the noir genre – with a regional Queensland twist.
Combining a suspicious death, strained family relationships, generational change, and a reckoning of what being Australian actually means ...
Mary Poppins is coming to QPAC this month!
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s supercalifragilistic new production of MARY POPPINS flies into the Lyric Theatre at QPAC this October for a strictly limited season.
Adapted from the beloved stories by PL Travers and the original film; the world’s favourite Nanny comes to life on stage in a spectacular and unforgettable production. At its heart MARY POPPINS is a story about family and the infinite possibilities that lie within us all. It’s time to rediscover the undeni...
Myf Warhurst is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this month!
In Myf’s joyous memoir, Time of My Life she shares funny, fabulous, and occasionally fraught tales about growing up in a small country town with an unhealthy Countdown obsession, working in Australian radio and her experiences on the much-loved music quiz show Spicks & Specks.
Music has always shaped Myf’s life, whether she was watching Daryl Braithwaite on TV on a Sunday night or listening to the crackle of the needle across vinyl as Agnetha and Anni-Frid took her from rural ...
Maho Magic Bar and Blanc De Blanc encore extend their seasons due to popular demand!
After a stellar 5 weeks, the Twilight Electric team have announced the shows will carry on through to Sunday 25 September to meet the unprecedented demand.
Scott Maidment, creator of Blanc de Blanc Encore explained the success: “Brisbane loves to party during festival time and based on the response to the season thus far, we’re giving audiences one more week to do just that in our champagne-soaked Spiegeltent.”
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Kirsten Siddle, creator of the Japanese ...
Your Song is returning to QPAC this September!
Your Song celebrates the unforgettable music of megastar Elton John and the memorable moments it evokes for everyday people, reimagining Elton’s biggest songs including “Candle in the Wind”, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “I’m Still Standing”, “Benny and the Jets” and “Tiny Dancer” using powerful stories and personal experiences shared by real-life people.
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Deftly fusing these intimate associations with Elton’s worldwide hits is a powerhouse ...
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is coming to QPAC this November!
The ensemble cast consists of international theatre star Anna O’Byrne (My Fair Lady, Love Never Dies) as Mollie Ralston, Helpmann Award winner Alex Rathgeber (Anything Goes, The Phantom of the Opera) as Giles Ralston, Laurence Boxhall (As You Like It, Jumpy) as Christopher Wren, Geraldine Turner (Present Laughter, Don's Party) as Mrs Boyle, Adam Murphy (Shakespeare in Love, Aladdin) as Major Metcalf, in her professional stage debut Charlotte Friels as Miss Casewell, Gerry Connolly (Cyrano ...
The world premiere of Holding Achilles is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
This breathtaking new production from visual theatre masterminds Dead Puppet Society and physical theatre virtuosos Legs On The Wall reclaims the queer aspects of The Iliad. Set to a haunting new score performed live by Montaigne, composed with Tony Buchen and Chris Bear, this innovative new work blends heightened physicality and visual storytelling with an ensemble cast to weave a legend of mythic proportions. A tale of trials, grief and love – Holding Achilles is an epic tale about a ...
Shakespeare’s Othello is coming to the Queensland Theatre Stage this September!
The Imperial Japanese Navy bears south toward Far North Queensland and the bold Captain Othello and his battalion are all that stand in their way. Off the battlefields, Othello's life is just as turbulent. He has secretly married the daughter of a wealthy cane farmer. Her spurned suitor Roderigo joins forces with the envious Iago in a sinister plot to bring down the renowned military hero.
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This tri-lingual (Kala Lagaw Ya, Yumpla Tok and English) production, ...
The world premiere of Tiddas delivers a love letter to Brisbane at La Boite!
Billed as a “love letter to Brisbane”, the stage version of Heiss’ best-selling novel premieres 5 to 24 September at La Boite’s Roundhouse Theatre after three years of creative development.
Tiddas, a commonly used term in the community for “women who are like sisters”, is a First Nations-led work about five best friends since childhood – Izzy, Veronica, Xanthe, Nadine and Ellen – whose monthly book club meetings cover life, love, literature and everything in between.
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