257 stories by "Bobbi-Lea Dionysius"
I was unfortunate enough to be surrounded by school children when attending Zen Zen Zo's brilliant new offering Medea The River Runs Backwards last week but as the booming voice of Peter Cos…
In the catalogue of the great classics of American Theatre, Tennessee Williams' 1944 "memory play" The Glass Menagerie is widely known as his most autobiographical work, basing the narrator/…
The Australian premiere season of shake n stir's Tequila Mockingbird opened in Brisbane on Wednesday night. In the lead up to the premiere Aussie Theatre's Bobbi-Lea Dionysius caught up with…
Award winning playwright Maxine Mellor wrote her new work -Â Trollop -Â in response to the 2011 Brisbane floods. The play won the Queensland Premier's Drama Award 2012-13 and has since b…
Open air Shakespeare comes to Brisbane One of Shakespeare's most treasured comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream will be performed by Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) at the magic, open a…
Occasionally you witness a performance that reminds you of what "drama" once meant and what "theatrics" once looked like before both words were hijacked by a culture that leads such melodram…
Does anyone still follow the "rules" of etiquette? Be it in the milieu of dance or romance, no matter how many blog posts we might browse exhorting the modern single to adhere to a prescribe…
Our pupils dilate Our awareness intensifies Our sight sharpens Our impulses quicken Our perception of pain diminishes We become prepared " physically and psychologically …
As part of the next instalment in La Boite's Indie season, we were treated to a first a performance where all the actors were under twelve years old. Joy Fear and Poetry, directed by PhD can…
Powerfully Fragile is a new one-act play written by cancer survivor, Briohne Sykes, for the 2013 South East Queensland One Act Play Festival. The play focuses on the affect a cancer diagn…
Playing at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre as part of their international tour, Cuban dance company Ballet Revolución is an eclectic mix of dance styles, pumping music, and loads of…
Australian music theatre royalty Amanda Harrison, is coming to The Arts Centre on the Gold Coast for a one-night only Up Close and Reasonably Personal night on 20 July. Best known for her im…
Slava's Snowshow, playing at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC is a fantastical journey devised by the Russian clown Slava Polunin, whose character came into being during Cirque du Soleil's Alegria to…
Recently the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts revealed their new Fresh Ground Artists-in Residence. Fresh Ground supports Queensland artists, collectives and companies to create hig…
A woman, a bath. Maureen O'Hara Spends a Quiet Night At Home, playing at the Judith Wright Centre, is a voyeuristic look into the 1940s screen legend's private life as she winds down from a …
AussieTheatre is currently featuring interviews with the Tap Brothers, currently starring in the 21st Anniversary Production of Hot Shoe Shuffle. Hot Shoe Shuffle is the tale of Spring…
Often described as one of the greatest anti-war plays, Bertolt Brecht's epic story, Mother Courage and Her Children, is a landmark production for the Queensland Theatre Company and our First…
Etta James fans will love this show. Those that don't know who Etta James is, then the show has you in mind for this is the Etta James story. If you aren't familiar with her name you will mo…
Borrowing from burlesque, circus, vaudeville, and the travelling freak shows, EMPIRE is the latest instalment from Spiegelworld. In case you haven't experienced the Spiegeltent before, it is…
The World is a Mess. And so are we. Part nite club, part dinking game, part public confessional, The Danger Ensemble's bold, provocative new work Sons of Sin at The Judith Wright Centre of C…
All male. All Vaudeville. All trash. The Brief boys are back from their sparkled sneaker globe trot around the world to open their new show Briefs: The Second Coming in the Brisbane Powerhou…
This Is Capital City is a promenade performance that takes place in the Kelvin Grove Village and surrounds as part of the La Boite Indie Season. But more than that, it is an exciting adventu…
The Brisbane Anywhere Theatre Festival has begun and has lots on offer from cabaret, theatre, and mixed media performances in unconventional venues across Brisbane. One such production is th…
The La Boite Roundhouse Theatre was alive and buzzing on Thursday night as their Indie Season kicked off with a number of shows being presented at the same time in and around the La Boite Th…
Fractal Theatre's first production as the Brisbane Arts Theatre indie resident company opened over the weekend with an adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein. Adapted by Bren…
