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The Rocky Horror Show is coming to the Gold Coast this September!

A brand-new Australian production has kicked off global celebrations in honour of iconic Rock ‘N’ Roll musical The Rocky Horror Show as it marks its 50th Anniversary in 2023. Written and created by Richard O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Show has become one of the world’s favourite musicals and the only contemporary rock musical to celebrate 50 years on stage.   //     Seen by over 30 million people worldwide, performed in over 30 countries, on every continent ...

Tickets now on sale as the sizzling star-studded cast announced for Chicago!

“The sharpest, slickest show on the block” (The Times UK) will play at Crown Theatre, Perth from November, the Lyric Theatre QPAC from January 2024, and at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne from March 2024. It was also announced that CHICAGO will play at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney from June 2024 – waitlist now at www.chicagomusical.com.au to be first to buy tickets. Returning to the stage to play the powerful and glamorous Velma Kelly is one of Australia’s favourite actors, ...

Salamander is coming to the 2023 Brisbane Festival!

Time to go, Time to wake up Time to stand up and hold each other before it is too late Before there is nothing left Do we fight and stay? Do we make a change? Or do we adapt?   //     A dance-theatre visual feast, Salamander sees a warehouse at Northshore, Brisbane transformed into a fully immersive, climate-fiction dream-like world through light, sound, design, and movement. Es Devlin’s labyrinthian and kinetic sculptures live within a flooded ...

Capricorn is coming to La Boite this month!

Sam and Ally are doomed and we have front-row seats to the end of their fractured relationship. Fate brings them together again and again but when all the world’s pet fish mysteriously vanish and the world descends into heartbreak, these ill-fated lovers must assess their relationship and their choices to face the truth of what led to their downfall. Capricorn, by Butchulla and Kabi Kabi writer Aidan Rowlingson, compacts all our anxieties and fears about love and loss into one ...

Opera Queensland gets playful with Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte

Greek Maestra Zoe Zeniodi returns to Brisbane to lead the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the cast of six and a chorus of eight in the production directed by Opera Queensland CEO & Artistic Director Patrick Nolan. Opera Queensland’s Così fan tutte features a cast of leading Australian singers, comprised of Samantha Clarke as Fiorgiligi, Anna Dowsley as Dorabella, Jeremy Kleeman as Guglielmo and Brenton Spiteri as Ferrando, three of whom are returning from seasons in London to be a ...

Chicago set to Sizzle at QPAC in Brisbane from January 2024!

CHICAGO will play at Crown Theatre, Perth from November, the Lyric Theatre QPAC from January 2024 and at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne from March 2024. The longest-running American musical in Broadway and West End history, this scorching hot masterpiece includes a glittering score that includes All That Jazz, Cell Block Tango and Razzle Dazzle. Created by the musical theatre talents of John Kander, who last week was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tony Awards, Fred Ebb ...

The Australian Ballet Present Jewels Live in Cinema at Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo!

Join the Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo on Thursday, 6 July at 7.15pm for a night of Ballet with a glass of sparkling on arrival to compliment the sparkle of JEWELS - The Australian Ballet’s Live Screening. George Balanchine’s JEWELS is a three-part ballet celebrating his vision of three jewels. Visually and thematically structured around the motifs of Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds, the piece explores the idea of movement radiating from the body through each specific jewel.   // ...

Joyful, joyful! The Little Red Company’s Sister Act Homage Returns to Brisbane!

Created by hit - makers Naomi Price and Adam Brunes, the Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves ‘sequel’ reunites original cast member Prinnie Stevens, Angela Fabian, Irena Lysiuk and Alisha Todd and a celestial creative team that includes Queensland fashion icon Gail Sorronda (costumes), multi award - winner Jason Glenwright (lighting) and the aurally - blessed Geoff McGahan (sound). Director Naomi Price said Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves honoured the films’ ground - breaking ...

Children of the Black Skirt is coming to Christ Church next month!

Evocative and poetic Children of the Black Skirt is a beautifully crafted theatre experience that has enthralled audiences across the country since it was first performed twenty years ago. Stylistically, Children of the Black Skirt is a gothic fairytale and in the classic tradition of Australian Gothic Theatre, it recounts the dislocation of the Australian psyche, its unresolved tensions with its landscape, its bush panic and the stories of its lost children - abandoned, forgotten, stolen...

Paul McDermott +1: Blood Orange returns to Queensland this month!

Australian comedy legend Paul McDermott has been fighting tyranny, injustice, and ennui for over 40 years, armed only with comedy and a pretty voice. Together with Tasmanian born musical director, guitarist, and comrade, Glenn Moorehouse, PAUL MCDERMOTT + 1: BLOOD ORANGE brings a mix of Paul’s angelic choir boy vocals with Glenn’s signature vitriolic incision for an unmissable evening of fervour and delight.   //   Queenslanders can marvel in their dynamic and ...