Sun, 2013-04-28 15:12Sons of Sin, The Danger Ensemble’s most provocative production to date, lays bare the hopes, dreams and expectations of young men moving through rites of passage and across a minefield of history, pressures, demands and taboos towards manhood. Classical text collides with raw confession.
A lone...Read more
Fri, 2013-04-26 16:43Jon Haynes has written a play but his cast doesn’t show up and so he has to go it alone. When he was 14 years old Jon Haynes wrote the first draft of the autobiographical play that eventually became The Poof Downstairs. He sent it to every theatre in the country. No one wanted it. He wrote another...Read more
Wed, 2013-04-10 12:00There’s a new kid on the block in Queensland’s classical music scene - The Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra.
Made up of over sixty-five professionally trained musicians, many of whom are past or present students of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, the QPO is about to give their first ever...Read more
Sat, 2013-03-30 21:55Fifty Shades of Grey became the fastest selling paperback of all time, and after attending opening night of SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, we wouldn’t be surprised if tickets to this show sell just as fast.
Right from the get go, two things are immediately obvious, the first being that this...Read more
Wed, 2013-03-20 10:37The Passion, re-telling of the suffering of Christ, has had monumental human implications throughout modern history. Christians and non-Christians alike consider JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion the greatest work of its kind ever written, attaining truly sublime musical expressiveness. A moving...Read more
Wed, 2013-03-20 10:39For a group of Australian schoolgirls, a romantic Valentine’s Day outing ends in an intriguing mystery. What has happened to the three seniors and the mathematics teacher on top of the jagged peaks of Hanging Rock? This exciting play explores a baffling disappearance which takes its toll on a...Read more
Fri, 2013-03-15 13:03Just like Peter Allen himself, The Boy From Oz started down under before being a massive international sensation, winning a sway of international awards. And now it’s back!
Playing at the Schonell Theatre in St Lucia, The Boy From Oz will be staged 27 April – 4 May telling the life story of...Read more
Wed, 2013-03-13 11:11Brisbane audiences have been deeply moved by La Boite’s latest production Holding the Man, the timeless story of the life and death of lovers Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo. The stage production is based on Tim’s memoirs which were published at the time of Tim’s death. The book was an instant...Read more
Wed, 2013-03-13 11:09In a strangely thrilling show, The Birdmann blacks out to come too cuffed to an ironing board, surrounded by clothes and holding a single black stiletto. Evocative of silent film and noir with magic, slapstick and escapology The Birdmann delivers sharp one-liners and stylish routines to reconstruct...Read more
Sun, 2013-02-24 10:09The worldwide smash hit musical, Legally Blonde is on its way to Brisbane, opening at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC on 12 March.Elle Woods can handle anything. So when her boyfriend, Warner, dumps her for someone 'serious' she decides to follow him to Harvard Law School and win him back.With some...Read more