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Let’s ‘Twist’ again: Queensland Theatre launches a mind-bending 2024 season
A musical based on madcap children’s TV classic Round The Twist is among the offerings in the company’s provocative 2024 program.
- by Nick Dent
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Manic multi-tasking: Endorphin levels surge in Fringe theatre Burnout
Fringe Theatre goes on the treadmill in Burnout Paradise while other shows offer high octane dance/theatre fusion, AI monsters and invitations into strangers’ loungerooms
- by Cameron Woodhead, John Bailey, Stephen A Russell, Cher Tan and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
‘I think I should make some earrings out of the Logies’
Laughter is pretty much at the heart of a lunch with Alison Whyte, as she reflects on acting in a stage classic and ponders the imagined life of a past TV character.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Every Brilliant Thing review: Show gets by with a little help from the audience
Listing all the best things in life sparks humour in a warmly therapeutic show at Metro Arts.
- by Nick Dent
Fringe dwellers bear up (barely) for their moment in the hard-to-spot sun
Melbourne’s 41st Fringe festival has officially begun – and that was all the excuse some people needed to get near-naked in public even if the weather wasn’t co-operating.
- by Karl Quinn
The comedian taking on transphobia in a new show
Acclaimed comedian Anna Piper Scott plays an analogue of JK Rowling in a new play taking aim at anti-trans rhetoric.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Will you follow the rules or lose the plot? This play lets you choose
Malthouse Theatre’s latest work is set in a town stalked by dread. Immersive theatre can make audience members feel the same way.
- by John Bailey
Rhapsody in shoes: Strictly Gershwin to thrill Queensland ballet audiences
Derek Deane’s Strictly Gershwin, returning to Brisbane for the first time since 2016, is not what an audience would expect a typical ballet show to be.
- by Courtney Kruk
It’s always a pleasure worshipping at The Church of the Clitori
The creators of this celebration of female bodies want their show to be “educational, hilarious and full of joy”.
- by Lenny Ann Low
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Seven-hour epic set to close Griffin’s theatre before major facelift
What’s Australia’s Angels in America or War of the Roses? It might be Louis Nowra’s The Lewis Trilogy: Summer of the Aliens, Cosi, and This Much Is True.
- by Hannah Story
High drama in a city on edge after the Lindt Cafe siege
Our critics run their eyes over some of the latest shows in town.
- by John Shand, Shamim Razavi and Cassie Tongue