51 stories by "Jemma Lanyon"
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…
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…
[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…
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 Trai…
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 who w…
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 Beatl…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 Dir…
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 Mac…
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 presen…
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…
Opera Queensland and Blue Roo Theatre Company joined forces to create a production of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice (fun fact:Â this is the opera parodied so perfectly by Offenbach's…
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. …
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 1920'…
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…
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…
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 stra…
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. Ironical…
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,…
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 …
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…
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 post…
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 …
