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Review: THE WOMAN IN BLACK at Queensland Performing Arts Centre


by Jake Goodall - May 03, 2024

What did our critic think of THE WOMAN IN BLACK at QPAC?...

Review: SONGS FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE at Queensland Performing Arts Centre


by Jake Goodall - April 12, 2024

Every year, as the pages of the Book of Life turn, Deborah Conway's name finds its place once again, etched into the history books. Come and step into the captivating narrative of her life as she weaves her story through song, monologue, and dance, inviting audiences on a journey that spans the dept...

Review: PROUDFOOT + FRIENDS at Queensland Performing Arts Centre


by Jake Goodall - March 10, 2024

What did our critic think of PROUDFOOT + FRIENDS at Queensland Performing Arts Centre?...

Review: JERSEY BOYS at Queensland Performing Arts Centre


by Jake Goodall - February 08, 2024

What did our critic think of JERSEY BOYS at Queensland Performing Arts Centre? Before there was Beggin' by Måneskin and Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You by Andy Williams, there was Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, which is the source for the hit Jukebox Musical: Jersey Boys!...

Review: RENT: THE MUSICAL at Playhouse, QPAC


by Jake Goodall - January 30, 2024

What did our critic think of RENT: THE MUSICAL at Playhouse, QPAC?...

Review: DANGEROUS GOODS at Cremorne Theatre, QPAC


by Jake Goodall - January 13, 2024

Don't miss this 5 star production performing until February 4 at QPAC!...

Review: METAVERSE OF MAGIC at Queensland Performing Arts Centre


by Jake Goodall - January 05, 2024

Are you ready for a night of wonder, bewilderment and magic? Then look no further than the Metaverse of Magic playing at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's Concert Hall until January 14, 2024!...

INTERVIEW: Guest Writer Hums Engineer Interviews Tyran Parke, Artistic Director of the Australian Musical Theatre Festival


by Jade Kops - April 24, 2023

BWWAustralia's Guest Writer Hums Engineer chats with Tyran Parke, Artistic Director of the Australian Musical Theatre Festival being held in Launceston, Tasmania from 17 - 21 May 2023...

Review: SUNSHINE SUPER GIRL at Brisbane Festival


by Virag Dombay - September 23, 2022

Brisbane Festival's Sunshine Super Girl was a grand slam night of storytelling....

Past Shows

The Forwards
The Forwards
6/14 - 6/24/2017


Five actors take the audience through a whirlwind of emotions, as the show follows the story of a small town called “Pintoon” where nothing ever ...

Swing
Swing
5/27 - 5/29/2016


Fresh from Dublin, New York, Paris and Edinburgh this international hit will make you want to dance. A heat-warming romantic comedy about being brave, trying ...

Daffodils
Daffodils
5/18 - 5/22/2016


Pull the cover off your favourite vinyl and discover a rich sonic world in the award-winning Kiwi hit Daffodils. Travel through a landscape of live ...

Tibet On Fire Concert


Tibet on Fire Concert features folk dances and songs by Australia’s most exciting emerging Tibetan artists. Tenzing Yeshi will perform original music by Japan based ...

Daniel Champagne


Daniel Champagne returns from a nearly endless run of tour dates covering the entire United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. This outstanding singer/songwriter/guitarist has ...

Hanako
Hanako
3/23 - 4/3/2016


A hyper-realistic fantasy of a girl’s journey from a traditional Japanese Noh play into an east-west inspired future world. The team behind Motherland (QTC) bursts ...

Class Clowns Brisbane Heats/QLD State Final


Class Clowns is Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s one-of-a-kind, national secondary school comedy competition. Hosted by a special guest comedian, you can register your stand-up, sketch, ...

Celia Pacquola
Celia Pacquola
3/8 - 3/13/2016


2015 saw Celia Pacquola’s arrival as a heavy hitter on the Australian comedy scene. She was hand-picked to support British comedy super star John Oliver ...

Brisbane Born and Bread
Brisbane Born and Bread
3/2 - 3/8/2016


Five of Australia’s most promising comedians return to their hometown to share the stage for one hour only, bringing a variety of stand-up styles, stories ...

WTF 2016
WTF 2016
2/18 - 2/27/2016


Most Koreans can recite Shimchong’s tale… Her mother died in childbirth, her father is blind, and she sacrifices herself to the Dragon King – the ...

Sven Swenson’s Heavenly Bodies and Beautiful Souls


Cutty’ is deeply in love. His pregnant wife Ruby is the only girl he’s ever held in his arms and in a perfect world, that’s ...

Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures
10/21 - 10/25/2015


With original music by Hugo Chiarella and Robert Tripolino (DreamSong), Guilty Pleasures sees music theatre dynamo Angelique Cassimatis (King Kong, Mary Poppins, Rocky Horror Picture ...

The Juliet Letters performed by Dean Stevenson


The Juliet Letters is a song cycle written in the 1990s by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. See Dean Stevenson perform this timeless album. ...

Ruth Roshan & Tango Noir


Silent movies in black and white with smoke drifting across couples embracing to the Tango – this is the scene that Ruth paints with her ...

The Motherf***er With The Hat


After a premier Broadway production featuring the renowned Chris Rock, The Motherf***er with the Hat is currently wowing audiences at the National Theatre in London. ...

Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball
5/28 - 5/31/2014


The postmortem is inconclusive. Natural causes? Or hot-mess murder gone platinum? Childhood friend Miley returns home to Nashville for the wake. F**k the funeral, it’s ...

Matt Okine: Happiness Not Included


They say money can’t buy happiness, but it will keep you warm at night, especially if you have enough to make a snuggie made out ...

The Naked Magicians
The Naked Magicians
2/25 - 3/2/2014


They’ve performed to audiences on televisions and stages across the globe, now Christopher Wayne and Mike Tyler; two of Australia’s biggest names in magic take ...

Glenn Robbins and Dave O’Neil in Now I’ll Have To Kill You


Put two of Australia’s favourite comedians together on stage with some special guests and you have a night of hilarious and revealing moments. Glenn Robbins, ...

Black Faggot
Black Faggot
2/19 - 2/23/2014


The hilariously funny Black Faggot was a massive hit at Auckland Fringe and won the 2013 Innovation in Theatre Award in a sold-out run at ...

Gudirr Gudirr
Gudirr Gudirr
2/20 - 2/22/2014


Gudirr Gudirr is the Yawuru word for the wader bird, which sounds a warning when the tides change. To ignore the warning is to risk ...

A Boy and His Soul
A Boy and His Soul
2/12 - 2/16/2014


Colman recently hit the silver screen alongside Forrest Whittaker, Oprah Winfrey and Lenny Kravitz in Lee Daniel’s The Butler, and has starred on Broadway in ...

The Necks
The Necks
2/8


Renowned for creating immersive, hypnotic concert experiences over two completely improvised one-hour sets, Chris Abrahams (piano), Lloyd Swanton (bass) and Tony Buck (drums/percussion) slowly conjure ...

The Vaudevillians Starring Jinkx Monsoon


RuPaul’s Drag Race reigning queen – Jinkx Monsoon makes her Australian debut in The Vaudevillians with co-star Major Scales. After an extended, sold-out, off-broadway season ...

Joel Ozborn: One Night Stand-Up


Since winning Street Performer Of The Year, presented by the Sydney Opera House, Joel has toured his “funny and spontaneous” (The Age) stand-up comedy to ...

Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend
Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend
1/12 - 1/16/2014


Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend is about a new Irish generation. They were promised everything; a life of financial stability and job security but they now ...

International Cabaret Contest: Queensland Heat


In its 11th year, the Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest (YTICC) explodes with a new name, new dates, heats in new cities and new prizes! ...

Amy Housewine: Back To Crack
Amy Housewine: Back To Crack
12/5 - 12/7/2013


Amy WINEHOUSE was a great talent we lost too soon. BUT… we still have Amy HOUSEWINE! Housewine is indestructible! She sang the same songs, did ...

Tom Sharah: It’s Raining Me


Born into an Australian showbiz family, Tom emerged from the womb with an extravagant finger-snap and a smart high-kick, and has barely drawn breath since. ...

Rhythm Junkies: Revived
Rhythm Junkies: Revived
11/6 - 11/10/2013


What happens when you get 3 tap dancers, 3 Irish dancers, 2 African drummers, an Irish fiddle player, a Didjeridoo player and a bunch of ...

Sounds of Dis-ORIENTation


Amber Hansen is a multidisciplinary Australian Lebanese artist who’s creative practice incorporates elements of Music Technology and Arabic performing arts in traditional, contemporary and experimental ...

Grindr: A Love Story?
Grindr: A Love Story?
10/11 - 10/12/2013


Nath Valvo is addicted to Grindr, and he is not alone. Join this award-winning comedian as he dives head first into the most influential application ...

All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
10/9 - 10/11/2013


Part ferocious stand-up, part fascinating performance lecture, part fabulous drag explosion, Panti’s Australian debut exposes the stories behind the make-up to reveal the self-made man-made ...

He Died With A Felafel In His Hand


A cast of eleven bring over 30 characters to life in this pacey, racey, and frequently spacey production. It’s a Brisbane story, by a Brisbane ...

I'm Your Man
8/27 - 8/31/2013


For 18 months theatre-maker Roslyn Oades and her trusty tape recorder followed a determined, young boxer from Western Sydney through his preparations for a world-title ...

Opal Vapour
6/5 - 6/8/2013


Created across two countries – Australia and Indonesia – Opal Vapour uses elements of Javanese Wayang Kulit shadow puppetry to explore powerful physical and internal ...

The Poof Downstairs
4/24 - 4/27/2013


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 ...


Damon And Naomi are musical magicians, conjuring a very unique universe of song. Over the course of 8 albums they have etched out a very ...

I Heart Alice Heart I
2/20 - 2/24/2013


Two exceptional, opinionated women were spotted kissing each other in Crumlin Shopping Centre. Now they’re in a show...reluctantly. Defying stereotype, they’re here to share with ...

Parah
2/13 - 2/17/2013


Does a word really have the power to change the course of a friendship? Funny, provocative and moving, Parah asks urgent questions about love, home ...


Cuban pianist and composer Marialy Pacheco launches her first Australian trio album “Spaces Within” featuring spine tingling new works that combine influences of jazz, traditional ...

The Seven Seas
2/6 - 2/7/2013


A live cabaret/musical performance by The Good Ship featuring Sandro Colarelli. Brisbane’s 8-piece folk rock juggernaut The Good Ship reveal their latest creation – a ...


Start the night off with Brisbane hiphop masters Impossible Odds, headed by front-man Rival MC aka Fred Leone, as they lead the way with their ...

Bye Bye Birdie
11/29 - 12/8/2012


Rock star Conrad Birdie is the biggest thing to top the charts. Women love him, men want to be him and teenage girls around the ...


Check out the next generation of talented dance professionals as students from Ikin Dance Full Time put on a performance of a lifetime as they ...

The Wishing Well
11/15 - 11/18/2012


Don’t miss this workshop production of The Wishing Well - a feisty, powerful and uplifting story of resilience, love and new beginnings - performed by ...

Videos


Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit in Australia - Brisbane Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit
Brisbane Powerhouse (5/9 - 5/12)
The Woman In Black in Australia - Brisbane The Woman In Black
QPAC - Playhouse (4/30 - 5/11)
VIDEOS
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap in Australia - Brisbane Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
The Empire (7/23 - 7/24)
VIDEOS
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Brisbane in Australia - Brisbane Faulty Towers The Dining Experience - Brisbane
The Brisbane Golf Club (3/8 - 12/6)
PHOTOS
Beauty and the Beast the Musical in Australia - Brisbane Beauty and the Beast the Musical
Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (2/17 - 5/19)
Richard Lindesay - Always Been a Player in Australia - Brisbane Richard Lindesay - Always Been a Player
Brisbane Powerhouse (5/11 - 5/12)
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