Cirque du Soleil acclaimed show KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities™ is coming to Brisbane this January!
Due to overwhelming demand, the Brisbane season has already been extended through to February 9!
KURIOS will premiere under a brand-new white-and-grey Big Top on 10 January 2020 in Northshore Hamilton. Written and directed by Michel Laprise, KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities is a tale in which time comes to a complete stop, transporting the audience inside a fantasy world where everything is possible.
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In this realm set in the latter half of the nineteenth century, ...
Die Hard: The Movie, The Play is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse
With only a gun, a white singlet and the Dad from TV sitcom Family Matters, John McClane must use his wits to survive (and deliver some pithy one-liners).
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Full of bare-footed action, danger and their trademark low-fi special effects, this new comedy from the team that brought you Speed: The Movie, The Play and Titanic: The Movie, The Play will have you screaming “yippee-ki-yay“.
Die Hard: The Movie, The Play
21 November - 01 December 2019
Brisbane ...
Jonathan Van Ness: Road to Beijing Comedy Tour
As the star of the Emmy-nominated web series Gay of Thrones, and the Emmy-winning reality show Queer Eye, Jonathan has become known in the entertainment industry for his fabulous, unstoppable energy.
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For the first time ever, he will bring that energy to the stand-up stages of Australia and New Zealand, with his unforgettable live show, serving cirque-du-so-gay-realness between stand-up sets so good your face will be in need of a massage from all the smiling.
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Antigone will be Queensland Theatre’s 2019 season finale!
Matilda award-winner Merlynn Tong’s adaptation of Sophocles’ 441 BC play Antigone is a compelling and fitting final production for Queensland Theatre in a year that has featured several powerful works that challenged the status quo.
Antigone opens on October 26 and runs until November 16 in Queensland Theatre’s Bille Brown Theatre.
The show reunites powerhouse actors, Logie award-nominee Jessica Tovey (QT’s Constellations also in TV’s Bad Mothers, Wolf Creek, Home & Away, ...
Explain Normal is coming to Metro Arts
There are also not normals, not normal ways for everything.
Not normal ways to love, to dance, to start a conversation, to cry. There are not normal ways to live.
As we all continually evolve our idea of normal, we ask what makes us part of a society and who is included? OK let’s say it – there is no such thing as normal.
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Explain Normal unpacks the concept of “normal” as both survival mechanism and death making, as myth, as someone else’s truth, as a potent ...
Opera Queensland and Circa partner to tell a tale of desire and risk in Orpheus and Eurydice!
Opera Queensland has partnered with internationally renowned contemporary circus company Circa to stage Christoph Gluck’s spellbinding opera from 24 October – 9 November 2019 at Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC’s) Playhouse.
Circa Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz directs the genre-crossing production that combines Gluck’s haunting score and the powerhouse vocals of counter tenor Owen Willetts (Orpheus) and soprano Natalie Christie Peluso (Eurydice) with the virtuosic ...
Expressions Dance Company and BeijingDance/LDTX are bringing their new work Matrix to QPAC
Expressions Dance Company and BeijingDance/LDTX present Matrix.
Defined as a “cultural, social or political environment or context in which something develops”, Matrix is the result of an immersive creative development in Beijing in August and September, producing two new works by multi award-winning Australian choreographer, Stephanie Lake, and the highly-acclaimed Chinese choreographer, MA Bo.
EDC’s six ensemble members are joined on stage by the 14-strong company of LDTX ...
The star studded Hair the Musical to open at HOTA in just a few weeks!
HAIR, which also stars Queenslanders Matthew Manahan in the role of Claude and Angelique Cassimatis (Priscilla/Saturday Night Fever) as oxygen-conscious Jeanie, has already performed in Perth and Geelong to rave reviews and will head to Wyong, Wollongong and Sydney before concluding with two shows on the Gold Coast, on October 11 and October 12.
HOTA’s Outdoor Stage provides the unique opportunity for the audience to experience the iconic tunes of HAIR (including Aquarius, Let the Sun ...
Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
A household name in her native country, Yang Liping has won huge international acclaim for her extravagant, breathtakingly visual dance works, blending Chinese aesthetics and modern expression in a distinctively personal movement language.
Taking inspiration from Chinese and Tibetan symbols of nature, Yang Liping creates a preface and a coda framing Stravinsky’s totemic work as the second of three sections – Incantation, Sacrifice and Renewal. Parts I and III feature a new musical ...
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch is Bryony’s masterpiece about motherhood, heartbreak and finding inner strength. She combines personal stories with epic film and original pop songs, in a powerful, dark and joyous tour de force.
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In 2016, Bryony nearly drowned. Postnatal breakdowns, an imploding relationship and an extremely sick child left her sitting beneath the waves hoping she could slowly turn to shell.
Three years later and she is able to deal with life again. Who ...
