Editor's Choice GATSBY at The Green Light

Brisbane Festival: GATSBY at The Green Light

Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
This year’s Brisbane Festival has plenty of theatre on offer. Take a seat at the hottest club in town with Gatsby at The Green Light, a circus-meets-cabaret soirée, inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, co-created and directed by Craig Ilott. Back to Bilo explores the grassroots campaign that brought…
BATSHIT

Brisbane Festival: BATSHIT

Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
Hysterical, hormonal, deluded, irrational... Throughout history, women have been silenced, sidelined, and pathologised by a simple label: “crazy”. BATSHIT is a wildly theatrical, darkly comic, and deeply intimate reckoning with the myths and misconceptions of female madness. Fresh from an award-winning run at Edinburgh Fringe, the renegade feminist, guttural, and…
Skank Sinatra

Jens Radda: Skank Sinatra

Qtopia Sydney 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Twice crowned Best Cabaret at Adelaide Fringe, nominated for Best Musical Theatre and Cabaret at Sydney Fringe, and with sold-out award-winning performances spanning Australia and Europe, the unstoppable Skank Sinatra storms into Qtopia Sydney from the 14th to 22nd of June, armed with powerhouse live vocals, sky-high glamour and a…
La Ronde

Strut & Fret: La Ronde

Newcastle Civic Park King Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
NEWCASTLE, IT’S YOUR TURN TO BE SEDUCED BY THE WORLD’S VERY BEST VARIETY ARTISTS. Blending the exquisite, the elegant and the extraordinary, with the twisted and the utterly delightful. Taking home 14 five-star reviews in its debut season at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, La Ronde is set to dazzle…
Editor's Choice GATSBY at The Green Light

Brisbane Festival: GATSBY at The Green Light

Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
This year’s Brisbane Festival has plenty of theatre on offer. Take a seat at the hottest club in town with Gatsby at The Green Light, a circus-meets-cabaret soirée, inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, co-created and directed by Craig Ilott. Back to Bilo explores the grassroots campaign that brought…
BATSHIT

Brisbane Festival: BATSHIT

Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
Hysterical, hormonal, deluded, irrational... Throughout history, women have been silenced, sidelined, and pathologised by a simple label: “crazy”. BATSHIT is a wildly theatrical, darkly comic, and deeply intimate reckoning with the myths and misconceptions of female madness. Fresh from an award-winning run at Edinburgh Fringe, the renegade feminist, guttural, and…
Skank Sinatra

Jens Radda: Skank Sinatra

Qtopia Sydney 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Twice crowned Best Cabaret at Adelaide Fringe, nominated for Best Musical Theatre and Cabaret at Sydney Fringe, and with sold-out award-winning performances spanning Australia and Europe, the unstoppable Skank Sinatra storms into Qtopia Sydney from the 14th to 22nd of June, armed with powerhouse live vocals, sky-high glamour and a…
Late Night Vice

Strut & Fret: Late Night Vice

The West End Electric 125 Boundary St, West End, QLD
Enter a world of mystery, mischief, and midnight glamour. Late Night Vice is Brisbane’s bold new after-hours escape—no phones, no rules, just pure unfiltered spectacle. Slink into Brisbane’s glimmering wild side—Late Night Vice is a cocktail-drenched fever dream where cabaret collides with chaos. No phones. No cameras. Just shadowy glamour,…
La Ronde

Strut & Fret: La Ronde

Newcastle Civic Park King Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
NEWCASTLE, IT’S YOUR TURN TO BE SEDUCED BY THE WORLD’S VERY BEST VARIETY ARTISTS. Blending the exquisite, the elegant and the extraordinary, with the twisted and the utterly delightful. Taking home 14 five-star reviews in its debut season at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, La Ronde is set to dazzle…
Editor's Choice GATSBY at The Green Light

Brisbane Festival: GATSBY at The Green Light

Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
This year’s Brisbane Festival has plenty of theatre on offer. Take a seat at the hottest club in town with Gatsby at The Green Light, a circus-meets-cabaret soirée, inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, co-created and directed by Craig Ilott. Back to Bilo explores the grassroots campaign that brought…
Burlesque: The (parody) Dinner Show

Talk and Tease Comedy Cabaret: Burlesque – The (parody) Dinner Show

Level 1 Level 1/ 33 darlinghurst Rd, Potts Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
This is an immersive musical theatre and culinary experience unlike any other! Relish the theatrical whirlwind of acting, dancing, singing and storytelling as it unfolds around you from the comfort of your cabaret table...all while wining and dining on delicious modern Australian cuisine. This is a parody adaptation of the…
BATSHIT

Brisbane Festival: BATSHIT

Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
Hysterical, hormonal, deluded, irrational... Throughout history, women have been silenced, sidelined, and pathologised by a simple label: “crazy”. BATSHIT is a wildly theatrical, darkly comic, and deeply intimate reckoning with the myths and misconceptions of female madness. Fresh from an award-winning run at Edinburgh Fringe, the renegade feminist, guttural, and…

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