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We Are Still Here with a Q&A is coming to Dendy Cooparoo

Ten indigenous filmmakers from Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Pasifika (Pacific Islander nations) deliver a cinematic response to the anniversary of James Cook landing on our shores and a strident reminder that after 250 years of colonialism - We Are Still Here. With eight stories interweaved into a singular narrative of Indigenous hope and survival, WE ARE STILL HERE highlights the shared history of the people across these regions with each story portraying the struggles, pain, ...

Kevin Hart is returning to Australia this March for a national tour!

Additionally, his previous global comedy tour sold out over 100 arenas around the world for 2018’s Irresponsible Tour, which sold over one million tickets worldwide including Australia and New Zealand.   //   Beyond his stand-up, Hart is a Hollywood Box office powerhouse, a two-times New York Best-selling author a highly successful actor and an entrepreneur. Across his acting career, Kevin Hart has starred in eleven movies that opened at number one at the Box office ...

Macbeth in Concert is coming to QPAC this March!

Fueled by treachery, superstition and a lust for power that knows no bounds, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tale for our times. Incoming Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici leads the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the mighty Opera Queensland Chorus, in a thrilling concert performance of Verdi’s murderous tale.   //   With José Carbó as Macbeth, Anna Louise-Cole as Lady Macbeth, and Rosario La Spina as Macduff, the passion and fury of Verdi’s renowned score will be ...

A Third Language exhibition is coming to Queensland Art Gallery this February

Featuring artworks abound with pattern and repetition, for some artists, this visual multiplicity is used to express the more abstract concept of cultural multiplicity, in which the whole is made from many heterogenous yet interlocking parts.   //   Artists also explore what happens when artistic traditions roam, mutate and brush up against one another. As images are copied and re-copied in different locations, they become enriched by the inevitable mistranslations or ...

Max Hurley: A Designer’s Life Exhibition is currently showing at QPAC

For more than 60 years, prolific designer and visual artist Max Hurley shared his prodigious talent with Queensland audiences and theatre makers.   //   Here we recall his extraordinary theatrical legacy through set, costume and graphic design, his involvement with pivotal moments in Queensland theatrical history, his fine art practice and demonstrated capacity to sustain a long and successful career as a creative practitioner. In his lifetime Max Hurley brought his ...

Hamilton $10 Digital ticket lottery confirmed for Brisbane!

The digital lottery, known in North America as Ham4Ham, is powered exclusively through the TodayTix app. The HAMILTON Lottery will have a limited number of tickets available for every performance at $10 each. The first lottery for the Brisbane season will open from 12:01am Friday 13 January through to 1:00pm Thursday 19 January for tickets to performances from January 27 - 29. Subsequent digital lotteries will begin on each Friday and close the following Thursday for the upcoming week’s ...

The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour is coming to QPAC this March!

The tour marks Weird Al’s long-anticipated return to the world stage with his original band of four decades, where they have performed at such iconic venues as the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall and Forest Hills Stadium, and most recently at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC and New York City’s Carnegie Hall. This tour is a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with this legendary performer. Opening the show is Al’s long-time friend, the legendary comedian Emo ...

Alan Cumming is coming to QPAC this January!

Alan’s diverse career has seen him perform in concert halls across the globe, including the Sydney Opera House, the London Palladium, the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. On the screen and on stage he’s played God, the Devil, Hitler, the Pope, a teleporting superhero, Hamlet, all the parts in Macbeth, Dionysus, a Smurf (twice), the MC in Cabaret (thrice), a James Bond baddie – and political spinmeister Eli Gold on seven seasons of TV’s The Good Wife, for which he received multiple ...

Pat Malone’s Magic Garden is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse next month!

Pat Malone’s Magic Garden is a fun-fuelled exploration of creativity for families. Fusing Physical Theatre, Circus and Dance with a good old fashioned ‘Aussie yarn’ this is a colourful and iconic piece about the nature of reality and the power of imagination. Follow Pat Malone, a Mythical Creature Researcher, on a very unique journey, as he shares his research into Autonomous Imaginary Species, or A.I.S. These are creatures that begin in the imagination, and then become real, ...

Garden Party is coming to La Boite this Summer!

Join the bees on their magical adventure and be amazed by their super strength, glow-in-the-dark escapades, acrobatic skills, groovy dance moves, and giant new friends. From the team that brought you A Bee Story, this brand new show explores new themes around sustainability (pollination!), teamwork, and community spirit. The show was co-created by performer Robbie Curtis (Circa, Cirque du Soleil, Circus Oz, Australian Ballet), and performer Lizzie McRae (A Bee Story, Living Sculptures: How ...