Cyril Smith

The Gift Theatre has announced the world premiere of Dirty by Andrew Hinderaker, the Joseph Jefferson-nominated writer and director of Suicide, Incorporated and I Am Going to Change the World tonight, September 20, 2012.

The Gift Theatre has announced the upcoming world premiere of Dirty by Andrew Hinderaker, the Joseph Jefferson-nominated writer and director of Suicide, Incorporated and I Am Going to Change the World on September 20, 2012.

Direct from triumphant performances and standing ovations in Leipzig, Stuttgart and Vienna, legendary Australian pianist David Helfgott returns to Brisbane to perform a programme of much-loved piano favourites at Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) Concert Hall for the first time in a decade tonight, 29 August.

Direct from triumphant performances and standing ovations in Leipzig, Stuttgart and Vienna, legendary Australian pianist David Helfgott returns to Brisbane to perform a programme of much-loved piano favourites at Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) Concert Hall for the first time in a decade on Wednesday 29 August.

Wes Driver directs a thoroughly charming and beautifully acted revival of G.K. Chesterton's first play, Magic, now onstage at the Shamblin Theatre on the David Lipscomb University campus in a sumptuously appointed production from Blackbird Theatre Company. Featuring a stellar cast of Nashville stage professionals, Magic might best be described as a gentle drawing-room comedy from the post-Edwardian period (it debuted in 1913) that somehow remains relevant and intriguing almost 100 years after its premiere.