Monday, December 11, 2017
Reading the promo material from Understudy Productions, I quickly get the impression that A Very Naughty Christmas is a raunchy Christmas cabaret. Chatting to actor and comedian Emily Vascot…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:57PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Meet Jamie and Cathy. Jamie is a budding writer, Cathy is an aspiring actress. In love and in their early 20s, their future together sparkles with potential. Jamie begins telling their story…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:56AMSaturday, September 9, 2017
[title of show] is a musical about two men, two nobodies, in New York who dream of achieving Broadway fame with their very own original musical. During its original run the writers of the sh…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:36PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Much of my favourite theatre over the past year or so has been independent theatre at the Powerhouse (shout-out to Blue Bones and True West). Margi Brown-Ash’s double-bill, He Dreamed a Tr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:35PMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Robert Icke and Duncan MacMillan’s award winning adaptation of George Orwell’s spookily prescient classic 1984 comes to QPAC. In a dystopian future world, Winston Smith is the everyman w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:54PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
It’s fifty years to the day the Beatles released their eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band– a very fitting time for the opening of The Little Red Company’s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:28PMSaturday, June 3, 2017
Brisbane’s own playwright and actor, Margi Brown Ash, presents a double bill of her shows He Dreamed a Train and Eve. The first show, He Dreamed a Train, is about belonging. “We ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:15PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
As part of their Maestro series, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra presents Haydn and Sibelius. Robert Trevino is a rapidly emerging American conductor and is making his Australian debut as …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:03PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
This winter, Disney on Ice brings the blockbuster family favourite Frozen to life where it should be – on ice. The beloved animated characters Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven, will…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:14PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
2017 is a landmark year for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in many ways. It’s their 7oth birthday and the official commencement of Alondra de la Parra’s appointment as the new Musical…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:40PMMonday, March 13, 2017
Actor James Rowland has come from the UK to Brisbane – it’s his first time in this city, but not the country. Following a week of previews in London, he’s here to perform in Duncan…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:10PMMonday, February 27, 2017
West End to Broadway in the Reservoir: The Movie Musicals is well explained by its title. It’s a concert of musical theatre songs from well-known movies musicals and Underground Opera pres…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:26PMSunday, February 12, 2017
Sondheim is probably the most well known and respected contemporary writer of musical theatre, and he has long been openly gay. Performed by five men as part of MELT 2017 at Brisbane Powerho…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMWednesday, January 4, 2017
Opera Queensland and Blue Roo Theatre Company joined forces to create a production of Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice (fun fact: this is the opera parodied so perfectly by Offenbach�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:46PMMonday, November 21, 2016
Craig Robinson is an American actor/comedian best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on The Office, and for movies such as Hot Tub Time Machine, The Pine-Apple Express and Knocked up. Ro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:40PMMonday, October 3, 2016
Singin’ in the Rain is one of the most beloved movie musicals of all time, and a glossy stage production is now making a splash in Brisbane after seasons around the country. Welcome to 192…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:20PMMonday, September 26, 2016
Taking over from Wesley Enoch as Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company late last year, Sam Strong delivered Wesley’s last season throughout 2016. There is anticipation crackling…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:07AMSunday, August 28, 2016
Lee and Austin are brothers, but you’d never guess it. Both have taken very different paths in life. Austin, the younger, went to an Ivy League school, worked hard to become a writer a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:37PMMonday, August 1, 2016
The night of their grandfather’s funeral, three Jewish cousins (and one of their girlfriends) are spending the night together in a small New York apartment. In the midst of grief, their st…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:23PMSunday, July 31, 2016
Mens Rea: The Shifter’s Intent is a contemporary dance piece performed and choreographed by Raghav Handa. Mens rea means ‘guilty mind’ in Latin. In a legal context, it means intent. Ir…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:02PMSunday, July 3, 2016
Hanuman, a cheeky child monkey, gets impatient when his mother takes too long finding mangoes for him in the forest. In his hunger, he mistakes the sun for a giant mango and tries to eat it,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:55PMSaturday, June 25, 2016
The 2016 Helpmann Award Nominees were announced on Monday with simultaneous events in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. With Tim Minchin’s musical Matilda garnering th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:23AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Quintessential nice guy Seymour works in a failing florist on skid row. He is hapless, invisible and helplessly in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey, until one day he discovers a mys…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:48AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
Meet a 17 year-old girl who doesn’t feel she is like her peers. She doesn’t watch Home and Away or have posters of Zac Efron on her wall. Instead, she watches Sophie’s Choice and has …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:40AMFriday, June 3, 2016
There is a low hum of people getting to their seats, laughing, settling, catching up with family and friends – suddenly the theatre is plunged into darkness. For several seconds there …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:42PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Underground Productions, the student theatre company at the University of Queensland, is the latest in Australia tackle Caryl Churchill’s 2012 play Love and Information after last year…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMMonday, May 23, 2016
Jenny is a Viking mama of three. She keeps a blog about the everyday battles she faces as a parent: from mustering the fortitude to get out of bed, to shopping with children who constantly w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMTheatremakers bring this semi-historical, entirely hilarious Gutenberg! The Musical! to life for Brisbane’s Anywhere Theatre Festival 2016. Broadway wannabies Bud Davenport and Doug Simon …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:11AMSaturday, May 14, 2016
It has been 33 years since Queensland Theatre Company last produced Much Ado About Nothing, so it’s high time Brisbane had a professional production of Shakespeare’s masterful comedy. Sp…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:39AMSunday, April 24, 2016
When the Queensland Performing Arts Centre first opened its doors in 1985, Angelin Preljocaj was founding a ballet company with two other dancers on the other side of the world in France. To…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:48PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Harmony (Liz Skitch) loves to sing and dance. Her family has fallen upon hard times, but instead of selling their gramophone as planned, she sets it up in the street and begins to busk. Just…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:31PM 
