Just Doing It With Emily Tresidder

I want to be Emily Tresidder’s friend. There’s something about her – her frankness, her openness, or just the fact she’s really flippin’ funny. Getting stuck in a lift with her wouldn’t be so bad.

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St Kilda: Australia’s largest free festival

Heading to Australia’s cultural capital in February?

If so, pop the St Kilda Festival in your diary. Read More

Chanteuse Clara Luciani brings Paris to the Powerhouse

You needn’t have chafed under the yoke of the Norman Conquest for a millennium to understand implicitly that the French do it better. Food. Wine. Kissing. French is best. Read More

Elixir: suggestive circus wows Wonderland

Did someone say smouldering, suggestive, somersaulting, sultry, subversive, sci-fi circus? Read More

Rumble! at Wonderland Reviewed

‘I’ve seen both their genitals!’ boasts Tina Bikki of Egson Ham and Rosie Rivette, tonight’s Rumble contenders.

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The Epicurean Shark

The Epicurean Shark bills itself as a comedy show seeking answers to one of life’s biggies: why does being bad feel so good? Read More

Jury’s out on Bitch on Heat

‘It was moving poetry!’

‘It was problematic!’

‘It was honest. Haven’t you ever felt like that?’

‘I’d have walked out if the genders had been the other way round.’

If nothing else, Bitch on Heat is divisive. Read More

Opera Queensland go country for Composed in Queensland

Think Barcoo Shire in central west Queensland – an area equal to Belgium and Taiwan combined, with a population that couldn’t fill two CityCats – and it’s unlikely you’ll think of opera.

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Interview: Head First Acrobats on sexy circus show Elixir

Circus gets sexy with Thomas, Cal, and Rowan – the toned, taut stars of Elixir – a genre-defying show somersaulting into the Powerhouse next month as part of the Wonderland Festival. Read More

Phil Barlow and Daryl James on the rise of the house gig

Experience live music beyond the confines of traditional venues, with Brisbane troubadours Phil Barlow and Daryl James. Read More

Faith and Science Clash in Nearer the Gods

Isaac Newton – inventor of calculus, godfather of physics, and the scientist Einstein admired – is the subject of Nearer the Gods, David Williamson’s (The Perfectionist, Gallipoli) new play, premiering this weekend as the first performance in the Bille Brown Theatre. Read More

Raise a glass to gin-soaked cabaret Mother’s Ruin

‘It’s a good time though!’ exclaims blonde bombshell Libby Wood to a concurring crowd. As one half of Mother’s Ruin – one third if we count Jeremy on piano’s speakeasy charm – she could be describing her own show. Read More

Winning Couple: An Evening with Bob Carr and Germaine Greer

On paper, Bob Carr and Germaine Greer make unlikely bedfellows. He’s an ex-politician. And she’s Germaine bloody Greer, second-wave feminism’s most vocal proponent. Read More