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Aussie 60s Beatlemania recreated at QPAC tribute show
The Beatles’ seminal 1964 Australian concerts will be faithfully recreated at a Brisbane concert by international group The Beatle Boys. The Beatles Twist & Shout will include all the group’s unstoppable number one hits in a two-hour concert experience, presented by our very own Fab Four on the QPAC stage in Brisbane. For more than …
BLUSH is a sexy and subversive adult circus coming to QPAC
The performers in sexy and exhilarating adult circus BLUSH hope to show you some incredible routines you haven’t seen before in Brisbane this summer. The award-winning “circus for grown-ups” brings a cast of world-class performers to the Cremorne Theatre at QPAC from January 5. BLUSH director Elena Kirschbaum said the idea behind the show was …
Jupiter Rising: Queensland’s Camerata take the QPAC Concert Hall
For musicians across Australia, 2022 launched on the tail end of a two-year rollercoaster ride. Mass concert cancellations. Stop-go performances. Pitiful income support from our federal leaders when chaos replaced certainty in entertainment spaces. The cause of all this needs no further publicity. Enter Camerata Camerata’s final mainstage production ended this year on firmly reclaimed …
Blush at QPAC is sexy, subversive circus for grown ups
The surprising, subversive and supremely sexy adult circus BLUSH is set to sizzle this summer at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). Following previous QPAC’s summer hits like Club Cremorne and The Kaye Hole, the award-winning “circus for grown-ups” will push the boundaries and scandalise with an immersive experience in the intimate Cremorne Theatre from January …
Talking Toksvig: Sandi Toksvig Live! comes to Australia
Sandi Toksvig, internationally-renowned comedian, broadcaster, writer and campaigner will make her Australian and New Zealand touring debut with a new, specially-conceived comedy show, Sandi Toksvig Live! In an evening of comedy and curiosities Sandi will share little known facts, tall tales and her unique brand of frivolity wrapped in the no-nonsense voice of an Oxbridge …
High voltage divadom at the ultimate tribute to Dame Shirley Bassey
Fans of high-voltage divadom are in for a treat as rising sensation Rachael Roberts brings her UK hit show to Australia. It’s called This is Me: An International Tribute to Shirley Bassey. Roberts will sport the glamorous costumes, the honeyed Welsh speaking voice and of course, the fabulous powerhouse vocal that Dame Shirley is so …
RU OK Day: Fourteen author Shannon Molloy shares important message
Shannon Molloy, the author of memoir Fourteen that’s now an acclaimed stage show at QPAC, has reflected on his harrowing struggle with homophobic bullying at school and said he’s “living proof things get better” on RU OK Day today. Writing for news.com.au on RU OK Day today, the journalist and author recalled the moment he …
Of Men and Gods: Stephen Madsen in Holding Achilles
Stephen Madsen spoke to QNews about love, war and stretching into his role as Achilles in the upcoming epic production of Holding Achilles at QPAC as part of Brisbane Festival. Step back in time In ancient Greece, it was no crime to take a man as a lover. Poets enthralled audiences with magical stories of …
World premiere of Shannon Molloy’s Fourteen at QPAC
Brisbane-born and bred Conor Leach returns home to play the lead role in the powerful page-to-stage adaptation of Fourteen. Currently in development for a television series adaptation, Shannon Molloy’s best-selling memoir is this generation’s Holding the Man. Fourteen-year-old Shannon searches for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile place: high school. The acclaimed …
