Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Mixed Doubles – An Entertainment on Marriage is a series of vignettes presented by The Brisbane Arts Theatre, for better or worse. Written by various English playwrights including Alan Ayc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:15PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Australian Music Theatre royalty, Amanda Harrison, graced Brisbane with her presence last week with her cabaret Up Close and Reasonably Personal. Diva at night, devoted wife and mother durin…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:49PMNow in its 77th year as Queensland’s Premier Youth Ballet Company, Ballet Theatre of Queensland has adapted the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and blended it with the charm of …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:34AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Just when you thought all the magic was gone… Building on its original sell-out season, The Illusionists 2.0 presents an ever bigger and bolder spectacular that is just mesmerising. With…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:14AMClancestry, A Celebration of Country returns to Brisbane’s cultural precinct next month to celebrate the arts and cultural practices of the world’s First Nations Peoples. After a strong …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:20AMMonday, January 13, 2014
La Boite Shakes Up Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts Known for their creative adaptations, shake & stir have collaborated with La Boite to create the world premiere prod…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:20PMIt’s been forty years since Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show first trolloped onto the stage. The show gained cult status when it was adapted into the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Pic…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:14PMSaturday, January 4, 2014
Magicians have a hard time these days with a room full of skeptics trying to work out how the magic tricks are done rather than being a believer and just going along for the magic carpet rid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:25AMFriday, December 13, 2013
The cult classic Little Shop of Horrors is funny, in your face, musically diverse, and a galloping good time. Little Shop opened at the Brisbane Arts Theatre on Friday 15th November. Written…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:36PMIn association with the Brisbane Powerhouse, Hubcap productions presents Dust to Queensland audiences. This collaborative piece brings together theatre, film and music to tell the story of a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:39AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
The Brisbane Powerhouse has launched their season for the World Theatre Festival (WTF) 2014. Kris Stewart, the Powerhouse’s Artistic Director, made time in his extremely busy week to chat …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:39PMWith 2014 marking the 10th anniversary of La Boite’s move to the Roundhouse Theatre, they are celebrating with a program of twelve plays: four main house, seven indie productions, and one …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:55PMWednesday, December 4, 2013
With fond memories of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the 1968 MGM movie, I was eager to see this wonderful family show brought to the stage. Adapted from Ian Fleming’s originally story into R…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:38AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
A 6:30pm viewing of Strange Attractor was a welcome way to spend a Sunday evening in Spring. Currently running at Brisbane’s Arts Theatre, this modern and thought provoking piece is a dari…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:57PMSaturday, October 12, 2013
Urban by Circoloumbia; The first thing that hits you is the sheer size of the troupe and I don’t mean in numbers; some of these men are absolutely massive in stature and you wonder what on…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Shakespeare is an intimidating body of literary works to first approach. Academics literally dedicate their entire lives to studying Shakespeare’s life and works. There exists 37 plays, ov…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PMMonday, September 30, 2013
The cosy Visy Theatre at the Brisbane Powerhouse was teeming with energy and the near to full house audience was very welcoming to Michael Griffiths In Vogue: Songs by Madonna. Upon entering…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:24AMMonday, September 23, 2013
Dorothy’s Fabulous Friends. Naturally, we entered the theatre by following the yellow brick road and the niggling magic of childhood welled up inside as we first clamped eyes on the marvel…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:54AMFriday, September 6, 2013
UQ’s student run theatre opened the Brisbane premiere of Bat Boy: The Musical on Friday 30 August at the Schonell Theatre, UQ. With the book written by Keyth Farley & Brian Flemming (b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:33PMThursday, August 29, 2013
It’s been thirty-five years since the film was released and the last main stage production in Australia was twenty-two years ago (arena spectaculars aside) but GREASE is still the word. Th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:34AMWednesday, August 28, 2013
I was unfortunate enough to be surrounded by school children when attending Zen Zen Zo’s brilliant new offering Medea The River Runs Backwards last week but as the booming voice of Peter C…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:47PMSunday, August 25, 2013
In the catalogue of the great classics of American Theatre, Tennessee Williams’ 1944 “memory play” The Glass Menagerie is widely known as his most autobiographical work, basing the nar…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMThe Australian premiere season of shake n stir’s Tequila Mockingbird opened in Brisbane on Wednesday night. In the lead up to the premiere Aussie Theatre’s Bobbi-Lea Dionysius caught up …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:25PMSunday, August 11, 2013
Award winning playwright Maxine Mellor wrote her new work - Trollop - in response to the 2011 Brisbane floods. The play won the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2012-13 and has since bee…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:51PMThursday, August 8, 2013
Open air Shakespeare comes to Brisbane One of Shakespeare’s most treasured comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed by Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) at the magic, op…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:52PMFriday, August 2, 2013
Occasionally you witness a performance that reminds you of what “drama” once meant and what “theatrics” once looked like before both words were hijacked by a culture that leads such …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:38PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Does anyone still follow the “rules” of etiquette? Be it in the milieu of dance or romance, no matter how many blog posts we might browse exhorting the modern single to adhere to a presc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:35PMOur pupils dilate Our awareness intensifies Our sight sharpens Our impulses quicken Our perception of pain diminishes We become prepared – physically and psychologically for… F…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:33PMMonday, July 22, 2013
As part of the next instalment in La Boite’s Indie season, we were treated to a first a performance where all the actors were under twelve years old. Joy Fear and Poetry, directed by PhD c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:00PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Powerfully Fragile is a new one-act play written by cancer survivor, Briohne Sykes, for the 2013 South East Queensland One Act Play Festival. The play focuses on the affect a cancer diagnos…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Playing at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre as part of their international tour, Cuban dance company Ballet Revolución is an eclectic mix of dance styles, pumping music, and loads of e…
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