Amazing Companies that support Aussie Theatre:
Metro Arts have flung open their doors and laid out the welcome mat for yet another year of creation and incubation with a program full of Residences, Cross Stitches, Independents and Friday Night Takeovers. Described as a slow-burn process of reflection and growth, Works in Residence sees artists move into…
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Time is running out to register something somewhere for The Anywhere Theatre Festival. The 2013 Anywhere Theatre festival is happening in a lot of non-traditional theatre spaces, somewhere all over Brisbane: parks, houses, cars, online – anywhere that wouldn’t usually stage a play. Productions can be opera in parks, comedy…
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David Berthold, one of Australia’s leading Theatre directors has been announced as the newest member of the Brisbane Festival team stepping into the role of specialised independent performing arts curator. On the back of the announcement, Brisbane Festival is now calling for independent and emerging artists who are interested in…
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There are no surprises that The Illusionists deliver on the promise of a stage spectacular. From the moment the doors were opened, the Performing Arts Complex (QPAC) Concert Hall floor began to pulsate with the atmospheric beats of lively live music played by ‘number one L.A. band:’ Z (composition by…
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This February, the Brisbane Powerhouse will bring the world to Brisbane with exciting independent performers from around the globe descending on the city to engage audiences in The World Theatre Festival. The 2013 program is all about showcasing contemporary, engaging and challenging theatre from Ireland, Malaysia, Iran, Germany, the United…
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The Illusionists; they look like characters from a Steampunk comic and they are about to land in Brisbane, bringing the age old art of magic into the twenty-first century and promising to transform outdated notions of what a magic show is about. From 18 January, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre Concert…
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The muddy waters may have long receded but the after effects of the 2011 Brisbane floods are still being felt by many residents and companies alike. Some relief came to the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) this week with the announcement of the Queensland State Government funding-match program of up to…
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Something terrifying happened recently in Brisbane; a group of refugees took over the Bille Brown Studio on Montague Road and gave the audience an experience that they would never forget; a gutsy and moving account of their lives so far. I Am Here is a work of real stories devised…
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The Blue Roo Theatre Company recently staged their show Flood Country at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. Unlike your average theatre company, Blue Roo’s mission is to engage people with disabilities to take part in the performing arts, but just like other theatre companies, they also have the…
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She opened the show in a borrowed dress, sporting borrowed cleavage and closed with her trademark crowd surf to retrieve whiskey from the sound desk, and in between the Piaf-like warbler, Meow Meow delighted the Powerhouse audience with her riotous mischief making and remarkable vocal ability. Times are hard and…
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