Gillian Wills

Gillian Wills is an author and arts writer who has published with ArtsHub, Australian Stage Online, Limelight, Griffith Review, Australian Book Review, The Australian, Weekend Review, Good Reading, The Strad (UK) Cut Common, Loudmouth and Artist Profile. Her short stories have been published with Dillydoun Review, Antonym, Dewdrop, Unbelievable Stories and Hare’s Paw Literary Journal. Her memoir, Elvis and Me: how a world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other, Finch Pty was released in 2016 in Australia, America, Canada, The UK and NZ.

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Cinderella

The skill level in this Queensland Ballet production is high, and the dancers’ commitment unmistakeable.

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Byron Bay Blues Festival

Stand-out sets from Jimmy Cliff, Santana and Paul Simon showed why the Blues Fest remains one of the country's most…

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A Private Collection – Artist's Choice: Michael Zavros

The latest ‘Artist’s Choice’ exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery probes our own collections of art and queries our relationship…

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St Matthew Passion

Lindy Hume's direction of Opera Queensland and The Camerata of St John’s, and some unusual staging choices, resulted in a…

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Piers Lane – Medici Concerts

The London-based Australian pianist is a scholar as much as a dazzling virtuoso, and boasts a dazzling technique.

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Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse

A dazzling two-hour spectacle involving an equine cast of some 44 highly buffed and polished stallions, geldings and colts, as…

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High Viennese Romantics

Works by Beethoven and Bruckner were performed at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s first Maestro Concert of the year.

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South Pacific

With two new cast members in Christine Anu and Gyton Grantley, this Opera Australia production is a stylish and entertaining…

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Kiddies Cushion Concerts: Carols with Cushions

Young children can and often do respond enthusiastically to concerts, as this Queensland Symphony Orchestra performance adroitly demonstrated.

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Towards the Flame

This collaboration, pioneered by the QSO's Richard Wenn in discussion with choreographer Natalie Weir, turned out to be an unexpected…

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