Bille Brown Theatre

Bille Brown Theatre — Queensland Theatre’s home venue

The Bille Brown Theatre sits on Montague Road in South Brisbane, ten minutes’ walk from QPAC and South Bank. The theatre opened in 2018 as the purpose-built home of Queensland Theatre, replacing the company’s earlier rehearsal facilities and providing — for the first time — a dedicated mainstage and rehearsal headquarters. The theatre is named for the late Queensland-born actor Bille Brown, and the building was designed to combine production and audience facilities in a single site.

The room

360 seats, configurable thrust-stage layout. The room sits in a single auditorium with three banks of seating around a central performance space. Excellent sightlines throughout — there is no obstructed-view position. The chamber-format scale produces a closer-to-the-stage experience than the QPAC Playhouse where the company’s larger-scale productions transfer to.

Getting there

Walk from South Bank station or the South Brisbane ferry terminal (5 min). Pair the production with the West End dining precinct — Boundary Street and Vulture Street have produced the densest restaurant precinct in inner-Brisbane in the last decade. The Brisbane Powerhouse is a fifteen-minute taxi ride away for a paired-evening with the contemporary programme.