Come From Away, Brisbane | Concrete Playground Brisbane

Already an enormous success on Broadway, in London’s West End and in Melbourne, Tony and Olivier award-winning musical Come From Away is touring its remarkable true tale around Australia’s east coast. Based on real post-September 11 events, the acclaimed production has been back in Melbourne since January 2021 for an encore season of kind-hearted charm, before heading to Brisbane in March — to QPAC’s Lyric Theatre from Friday, March 26–Sunday, May 2, in fact — for the first time.

If you aren’t familiar with the musical’s plot or the actual events that inspired it, it’s quite the exceptional story. In the week after the September 11 attacks in 2001, 38 planes were unexpectedly ordered to land in the small Canadian…