Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has announced the line-up for Clancestry, a three-week program from 14 February to 5 March 2022 which will bring together First Nations voices, ideas and talent through performance and professional development opportunities. Clancestry will kick off with a National Apology event for Community in the Concert Hall foyer on 14 February, held in partnership with Link-Up (Qld). On 22 February the Concert Hall will host Blaktivism, a collabo

Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre's best-selling play, Killing Katie: Confessions Of A Book Club will open 9 January, 2022 after having to be rescheduled due to Covid. "Tracey Trinder's new comedy about what really happens in a book club will have the World Premiere it absolutely deserves" said Mark Kilmurry, Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre. When former Queen Bee of the book club Robyn (Kate Raison) publishes her first novel, the truth about the death of her nemesis, the free-spi

By Douglas Kennedy Images by TTL Photography One O’clock From the House By Frank Vickery Directed by Dawn China Gold Coast Little Theatre Season ends December 11. Bookings: www.GCLT.au Phone: 07 55322096.. Popular Gold Coast community theatre director Dawn China is a ‘safe pair of hands’ when it comes to black comedy in a quaint British setting. Dawn, who gave us Ladies Day at Javeenbah Theatre Company last year, has returned to family life with Frank Vickery’s One O’Clock Fr

By Douglas Kennedy From left Laura Coulton (Gwendolen), Daniel Dosek (John Worthing), Brad Chapman (Lady Bracknell), Jack Lovett (Algernon), Chloe Smith (Cecily).. The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde. Directed by Liam Mathers. Javeenbah Theatre Company Cnr Stevens & Ferry Streets, Nerang Queensland Season ends December 4. Bookings 0417004466. info@javeenbah.org.au Oscar Wilde’s highly mannered 1895 drawing room comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, lends itself

The Mitchell Old Company presents, HEATHERS The Musical, a high-energy immersive theatre experience based on the cult classic film of the same name that will have a limited season at ARA Darling Quarter Theatre from 8 February to 5 March 2022. This heartfelt, hilarious and provocatively dark comedy features new songs and comes to Sydney direct from the West End production. Set in Westerberg High School in 1989, Heathers is brought to you by the award-winning writing team of K

By Lilian Harrington Summer Rain By Nick Enright Musical arrangements by Terence Clarke Villanova Players (VP) Ron Hurley Centre, Community Hub, 28 Tallowwood St. Seven Hills Season: 13-28 November Bookings: Desley 0423920832 or Try booking, or villanovaplayers@gmail.com Summer Rain is set in 1945, in a drought stricken outback town, Turnaround Creek in N.S.W. on Boxing Day; it shows the difficulties that locals face living in the outback. The message of drought, post war

The National Indigenous Music Awards has once again proven itself as one of the most important nights on the Ausmusic calendar! Teaming up to create a new version of the awards ceremony, the NIMAs and triple j’s First Nations show, Blak Out crafted a broadcast that was heard across Australia – and the world – via triple j, Double J and triple j Unearthed as well as being available to First Nations community radio stations via The National Indigenous Radio Service The night wa

By Nahima Kern Grease Written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Directed by Alister Smith Presented by the Musical Theatre Students of Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University QPAC South Brisbane Season runs until November 13. Duration 2.5 hours with interval. Bookings: https://www.qpac.com.au/event/grease_21/ Grease is the word, at least that’s what the cool kids say. The 1978 blockbuster film that followed the original 1971 musical, sparked an enduring love for the songs

By Liv Wilson There’s Something About Music Little Red Theatre Co. Created by Adam Brunes & Naomi Price Brisbane Powerhouse Season runs until Saturday 13th November. Bookings on https://brisbanepowerhouse.org/whats-on/event/theres-something-about-music They don’t call her ‘Brisbane’s leading lady’ for no reason! Naomi Price (pictured) is at it again with a phenomenal production of There’s Something About Music, a 90min show revisiting favourite songs from popular rom-coms. T

By Paul Kiely Home Chat By Noel Coward Directed by Barry Nielsen An amateur production by arrangement with Origin Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French Ltd Genesian Theatre 420 Kent Street Sydney Season: 6 November – 12 December 2021. Bookings: www.genesiantheatre.com.au Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes (20 minute interval) Whoever coined the phrase “the more things change, the more things stay the same” may well have been referring to the plot of Home Chat. Now, almost 100 years