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Xanadu 21 - 24 May 2026 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills Roller skates, Greek gods and 80s dreams are set to take over Brisbane as Xanadu rolls into Ron Hurley Theatre for a limited season. Blending Greek mythology with roller-disco chaos, Xanadu follows a mysterious muse who descends from Mount Olympus to inspire a struggling... Continue Reading →
Revolution Remixed 29 May 2026 QPAC Concert Hall Think classical music is all polite applause and predictable melodies? Think again. Camerata - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra shakes things up with Revolution Remixed, a program packed with bold ideas and big emotion. At the centre is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 Eroica, a work that completely... Continue Reading →
Square Peg, Bonus Hole 7 - 10 May 2026 Park Mezzanine, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm In a world where anyone can be anything…there is a comedy show that identifies as hilarious. Join Daniel Bruschweiler at Brisbane Comedy Festival for Square Peg, Bonus Hole, a stand-up hour that tackles masculinity, relationships, and navigating the world as... Continue Reading →
Autumn Salon 14 April - 2 May Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley Mitchell Fine Art presents Autumn Salon, an exhibition symbolising a powerful period of transition, marking the shift from active growth to quiet reflection, harvest, and release. Autumn Salon is an exhibition of Indigenous and Contemporary artworks drawn from the Gallery stockroom that... Continue Reading →
A Beginner’s Guide to Ancient Egypt 30 April - 3 May 2026 Brisbane Powerhouse Pyramids. Pharaohs. Spells. Few civilisations capture the imagination quite like Ancient Egypt: a world of mystery, magic, and mildly concerning burial practices. In 2026, award-winning comedian and amateur Egyptologist AJ Lamarque returns to stages around the country with a new comedy... Continue Reading →
(L to R) Darcy Jones and Peter Hatton, Rebecca Day, Peter Wood, and Isabella Berlese. Photographed by Amelia Slatter. With a cast of five committed actors, Salad Days Collective brought the careening summer camp comedy Sunny Tribe District to larger-than-life at PIP Theatre. Knick's brother Ken has gone missing from the strange, remote summer camp... Continue Reading →
(L-R) Luke Kennedy, John O'Hara, Jason Arrow, and Irena Lysiuk, photographed by Joel Devereux The Little Red Company filled the Powerhouse Theatre with electric energy for the return of Your Song, a celebration of Sir Elton John’s iconic music catalogue and its wide-reaching personal and cultural impact. Created by Adam Brunes and Naomi Price, and... Continue Reading →
(L to R) Hugh Parker, Merlynn Tong, and Reagan Mannix, photographed by Daniel Boud Dead Puppet Society's The Riddle of Washpool Gully, an all-ages Australian fable about isolation, imagination, and what makes a monster, returned to QPAC as part of a national tour. A boy and his mother move to Washpool, in the middle of... Continue Reading →
Die, Mommie, Die! 25 March - 11 April 2026 PIP Theatre, Milton A Midnight Social is thrilled to present the outrageously camp cult classic Die, Mommie, Die!, a deliciously twisted homage to 1960s melodrama. Written by Charles Busch, Die, Mommie, Die! follows fading Hollywood star Angela Arden: a glamorous, chanteuse trapped in a crumbling mansion... Continue Reading →
You Can't Tell Anyone 10 - 12 April 2026 PIP Theatre, Milton It’s the end of school and Gwen is throwing a party. After an emotional year, her friends are keen to spend the night drinking, playing games, and arguing about literally everything. But when a party game spirals out of control, long-held tensions start... Continue Reading →
Imagery supplied by Mitchell Fine Art Hollywoodridge 10 March – 11 April 2026 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley The unfiltered realities of an upbringing in public housing in Woodridge form the basis for Logan artist Jake Moss’s debut exhibition. Presented as a film production timeline - spanning painting, sculpture, installation, video, and sound -... Continue Reading →
Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit 22 - 24 April 2026 Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm Immerse yourself in the cozy world of a 1950s Agatha Christie novel as Australia's funniest improvisers craft eccentric characters and perplexing mysteries from your suggestions. Any of the village’s suspicious denizens could be dispatched at any moment, and any of them... Continue Reading →
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