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The Lyric Theatre is a proscenium theatre and is the largest venue in QPAC, with a seating capacity of approximately 2,000. It is Brisbane's main venue for musicals, operas and ballets. [7] The Concert Hall is the second largest venue in QPAC, with a seating capacity of approximately 1,600 (1,800 if the choir balcony seats are used). It is ...
Brisbane Arts Theatre was founded in 1936 as Brisbane Amateur Theatres by Jean Trundle and Vic Hardgraves. The company's name was changed in 1947. Its early seasons up until the early 1960s consisted of five productions, each with three-night seasons in venues such as All Saint's Hall, Princess Theatre , Theatre Royal and Albert Hall .
In the lead-up to the launch of the theatre's new season in Hale Street in 1967, Brisbane Repertory Theatre adopted the new name "La Boite", The French translation of "the box". La Boite's intimate, 70-seat space attracted a new audiences, as well as a new directors and actors, including Jane Atkins, Eileen Beatson, Ian Thomson, Barry Otto ...
Queensland Theatre is based in its own complex at South Brisbane. It performs in the much smaller venues than the original SGIO Theatre, named after two well known Brisbane theatre actors, Bille Brown and Diane Cilento. It has in the past performed in the Playhouse Theatre, Cremorne Theatre and at one time in the Lyric Theatre, all part of the ...
Brisbane Festival is one of Australia's leading international arts festivals, and is held each September in Brisbane, Australia. [1]Its presence dominates the city for three weeks in September and its line-up of classical and contemporary music, theatre, dance, comedy, opera, circus and major public events such as Riverfire attracts an audience of around one million people every year.
The Twelfth Night Players was an amateur group founded by Rhoda Mary Felgate who had directed many plays for the Brisbane Repertory Theatre Society.That society was for advanced performers and she believed that with her teaching skills she could found a new company for a company of improving amateurs who could perform important plays.
Major cities also have their own theatre awards, such as the Sydney Theatre Awards, Melbourne's Green Room Awards and Brisbane's Matilda Awards. [ 134 ] [ 135 ] Publishers of Australian playscripts include the non-profit Australian Script Centre , Currency Press , Yackandandah playscripts, [ 136 ] Playlab Press [ 137 ] and Full Dress Publishing.