Briefs: Close Encounters
It feels like forever since I’ve viewed the world through rose-coloured glasses. Idiot leaders, global financial crises, wars, environmental disasters, more idiot [...]
Australian Theatre
Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company
Reviewing Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company was never going to be an easy task. Now something of an Australian theatre classic, it examines the social impulse to [...]
Opera Q’s Ruddigore at QPAC
Opera Q is knocking it out of the park at the moment, and I say that as someone who doesn’t know enough about either sport or opera to use such metaphors. But I do [...]
Lady Beatle at La Boîte Theatre Company
I’ve been brainwashed. I didn’t realise it until last night, but I know every damn word to every damn song The Beatles ever released. I thought I was a fairly ambivalent [...]
Bizet’s The Pearlfishers at QPAC
Whenever I’m researching opera (which I need to do a lot of when I write about it – I am to opera what Pauline Hanson is to elocution), it strikes me that [...]
Blue: the Songs of Joni Mitchell at Brisbane Powerhouse
The Queensland Cabaret Festival is coming back to Brisbane 1-15 June 2017. Here’s a highlight! WHAT: Queenie van de Zandt does Joni Mitchell in Blue: the Songs of Joni [...]
Kinky Boots is stomping in to Brisbane
Sometimes you don’t know how much you don’t want to see something until you’ve already seen it. For example: However, it’s in the ether now so [...]
My Fair Lady spins into Brisbane
The word “legend” is waaaayyyyyyy too overused in the entertainment world, but when it comes to Dame Julie Andrews it’s almost an understatement. One of the [...]
Matilda’s genius charms Brisbane
Children are maggots. I’ve always wanted to say that. Sorry, where was I? Oh yes… Matilda has arrived in Brisbane, and it’s just as revoltingly vile as Roald Dahl [...]
Opera Queensland says “Kiss me quick” with Kiss Me, Kate!
If you’ve never been to the opera, but think you might like it, today’s news from Opera Queensland (OperaQ) could be just the ticket. In line with their [...]
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