Author: The Arden Review
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MJ the Musical Thrills Brisbane Audiences in Sell-out Season
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Ilario Grant as MJ and the cast of MJ the Musical. Image credit: Daniel Boud. MJ the Musical is the hottest ticket right now, bringing the musical theatre experience to a whole new level. As new musicals rise in popularity and begin to reach Australian shores during the cost-of-living crisis,…
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My Brilliant Career – The New Australian Musical Worth Making a Song and Dance About
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Kala Gare as Sybylla Melvyn in My Brilliant Career. Image credit: Pia Johnson My Brilliant Career redefines the trajectory of musical theatre with its iconic girlboss energy and unique Australian feel and sound. For years there have been multiple attempts from the Australian theatre industry to create a musical that…
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THE LAST SHIP Docks at QPAC’s Glasshouse Theatre for Exclusive Brisbane Season
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Shaggy (The Wallsend Ferryman), Annette McLaughlin (Peggy White) and Sting (Jackie White) in THE LAST SHIP. Image credit: Pixeline Photographie So, what have we got? A musical set in a ship-building town in the North-East of England in the 1980s…sounds crazy, no? Well, global music icon Sting is here to…
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ART by Yazmina Reza is an Allegory of Great Proportions
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Image Credit: Brett Boardman How is it possible that a 90-minute, one act play can simultaneously have everything and nothing happening throughout each turning conversation and still provide compelling moments of relationship dissections with a healthy dose of comedic relief? ART by French playwright Yazmina Reza follows the story of…
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Queensland Symphony Orchestra Brings The Oscars to Brisbane
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And the Oscar goes to… Brisbane-based state company Queensland Symphony Orchestra reminds us why music is a crucial component to the motion picture experience in their annual orchestral extravaganza Cinematic: The Oscars. Have you ever seen a professional orchestra perform live on stage? Perhaps you’ve been to a musical, ballet…
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Bell Shakespeare Proves Why Romeo & Juliet is Still Relevant Today
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‘But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?’ Tis a play, that’s been overdone…or so you may think! It is strange to think that a play marketed to us a tale of ‘young love’, romanticises what is essentially lust at first sight. Romeo and Juliet meet one day, get married…