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Traumageddon: The One-Man Musical 25 October & 8 November 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton One man. One mic. One massive musical meltdown. Following a darkly triumphant debut at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, JD Jephson—The Gold Coast’s premier queer Māori adopted autistic cabaret prophet—returns with a fresh horror: music. Armed with the voice of a... Continue Reading →
Whitefella Yella Tree 23 October - 8 November 2025 Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove A timeless love story, infused with culture, history and identity, plays out on the Roundhouse Theatre stage when the award-winning Whitefella Yella Tree makes its Queensland premiere. It is a story of first love, of Ty and Neddy, two teenage boys who... Continue Reading →
Saint Joan 15 - 18 October 2025 Metro Arts, West End The Island of Misfit players return to the Metro Arts stage in October to present Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw. As a renowned member of the French military, Joan of Arc helped pave the way for modern feminism as we know it, proving... Continue Reading →
Lucille MacKellar Has Boy Problems 6-7 November 2025 Good Chat Comedy Club, Petrie Terrace Lucille dreams of having a boyfriend, but despite her beauty and charm, can't seem to find one. The problem can’t be her, right? There must be something else going on… Lucille MacKellar Has Boy Problems is not your typical coming out... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Lucy Rayner-Toy Observatory Theatre's Book Launch Bash for AusArt Day 23 October 2025 16A Logan Road, The Tailors Bar, Woolloongabba For AusArt Day 2025, local independent theatre company Observatory Theatre is throwing a big bash to celebrate the publication of not one but two of their original works - Disney Off Ice by Oliver Gough... Continue Reading →
Image supplied by Southern Cross Soloists Wonder 12 October 2025 QPAC Concert Hall, South Bank Step into a world where friendship, love, and artistry intertwine. More than a classical concert, Wonder explores the poignant story of the entwined lives of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms through music, movement and the words of their letters. From Clara’s Romances to Robert’s haunting Ghost... Continue Reading →
Tell Me Something 29 October – 1 November Metro Arts, West End What happens when you just don’t want to tell the truth? Hamish loves Matthew but doesn't want to tell him. Emilie loves Bella but doesn't want to tell herself. Hamish and Bella have known each other since they were kids. They tell each... Continue Reading →
Plantapolooza at Brisbane Markets, 2023. Photographed by Claudia Baxter Plantapalooza 6am - 12pm, Saturday 11 October 2025 Brisbane Markets, 385 Sherwood Rd, Rocklea Plantapalooza will transform Brisbane Markets into a dream of lush greenery, blooming flowers and garden accessories, inviting local green thumbs to unite in a celebration of spring and all things plants. Located out... Continue Reading →
Contours exhibition, photographed by Claudia Baxter Contours 23 September – 18 October 2025 Mitchell Fine Art, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley presents a group exhibition of paintings illuminating the deep layers of ancestral connection between First Nations artists and their traditional homelands. Contours is an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal artworks... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Claudia Baxter King George Square Showdown 4pm, 27 September 2025 King George Square, Brisbane City Grab your leg warmers and slip into your sequins for Brisbane’s ultimate dance battle! Join Common People Dance Project as they cut some moves on the city’s biggest dancefloor for a free, all-in, feel-good dance showdown in front... Continue Reading →
Imagery supplied by Mitchell Fine Art Placky Bags 26 August – 20 September 2025 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley Melbourne artist Margaret McIntosh returns to Mitchell Fine Art with her second solo exhibition, Placky Bags, illuminating societal waste and overconsumption and highlights the intersection between urban waste and natural scavenging. Drawing a striking parallel... Continue Reading →
Shostakovich Ten 19 & 20 September 2025 Concert Hall, QPAC Rebellion and revolution take centre stage as QSO pairs Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 with William Kentridge’s acclaimed film Oh To Believe in Another World, a politically charged collage of puppetry, animation, and history that reimagines the Soviet era. The concert also features internationally acclaimed pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk,... Continue Reading →
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