Scale New Heights at the 32nd Alliance Française French Film Festival!
Awash with high-octane drama, seductive romance, nail-biting suspense, historical tales that will enthral and comedies guaranteed to elevate your spirits, the 2021 Alliance Française French Film Festival will showcase multiple Première screenings and special events to be revealed today when the Festival’s website goes live at: http://www.affrenchfilmfestival.org
Presented by the Alliance Française in association with the Embassy of France in Australia and the wonderful support of their ...
Steven Oliver’s autobiographical comedy cabaret, Bigger & Blacker is coming to La Boite!
This is cabaret as you’ve never seen it before!
Bigger & Blacker is a comedy cabaret guaranteed to get you laughing, thinking and shimmying in your seats over one action-packed hour of entertainment.
Steven Oliver, the star of ABC’s hit television series Black Comedy, is fresh and fabulous in the world premiere production, based on his own life.
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Bigger & Blacker combines comedy and contemplation with saucy stories, reflections on love and loss ...
There’s Something About Music is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
Fall in love with your favourite films all over again with this homage to cinematic rom coms breathing new life into those heartstring plucking soundtracks that defined the genre.
If you've been wishin and hopin to hear your favourite songs from films such as There Something About Mary, Notting Hill, My Best Friend s Wedding, 10 Things I Hate About You, Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally you re in luck.
A dream cast of Australian stage and screen sweethearts, ...
Global Hit Musical Come From Away is coming to Brisbane this March!
Set to inspire audiences, COME FROM AWAY follows the incredible real-life journey of 7,000 air passengers who became grounded in Gander, Newfoundland in Canada in the wake of the September 11 tragedy.
The small community that welcomed the ‘come from aways’ into their lives provided hope and compassion to those in need. Award-winning husband and wife duo David Hein and Irene Sankoff (book, music and lyrics), travelled to Newfoundland and interviewed thousands of locals, compiling ...
Shaun the Sheep’s Circus Show is coming to QPAC this March!
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced that Queensland had secured the World Premiere season to be held at QPAC’s Lyric Theatre in March 2021.
“Thanks to the way Queenslanders have managed the coronavirus pandemic, we’re now able to return to the theatre,” the Premier said. “Today’s announcement is a great win for Queensland, not only for our arts community but also for our economy as we continue to rebuild from the pandemic.
“Shaun the Sheep is a global phenomenon. ...
Fantastic Mr Wes: A Wes Anderson Retrospective is coming to Dendy Coorparoo!
The retrospective, titled FANTASTIC MR. WES, is a delightful trip through all nine of Wes Anderson’s colourful films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissor, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Isle of Dogs.
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Fantastic Mr Wes: A Wes Anderson Retrospective
4-24 February 2021
Dendy Coorparoo, Brisbane
www.dendy.com.au
MZAZA – The Birth & Death of Stars is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
The Birth & Death of Stars, based on the award-nominated album of the same name, draws inspiration from history’s philosophers and astronomers, leading us on a surreal voyage through the ether to explore what links us to each other and the world around us.
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Sitting comfortably between music and theatre, the show is a powerful collaboration of creative minds featuring director Benjamin Knapton, Finnish animator Laura Matikainen and writer Pauline Maudy.
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On Fire: Climate and Crisis exhibition at The Institute of Modern Art
On Fire: Climate and Crisis features work by 15 Queensland artists and interrogates the state’s image as a subtropical paradise by considering the themes of global warming and climate threat.
At IMA from 30 January to 20 March 2021, On Fire spans painting, sculpture, immersive installation and video, including eight new commissions, in a timely examination of the past, present and future of the planet’s precarious situation.
On Fire considers the damaging legacies of colonialism, ...
Aftermath is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this February!
A rousing aural, visual and sensory trip, Australasian Dance Collective and The Kite String Tangle’s Danny Harley hurtle us through a cascade of events towards a high-octane climax in Aftermath.
Set to a searing new score by the acclaimed producer, vocalist and songwriter behind The Kite String Tangle, Aftermath opens into a haunting world of disquiet, both familiar and unfamiliar. Through a landscape of fragmented memories and imperfect recollection, we slowly piece together the ...
Japanese Film Festival Classics 2020 is currently screening at GOMA!
'Provocation and Disruption' is all about the poetic, the abstract, the visceral and the abrasive in visionary Japanese cinema. The selection broadly encapsulates films that were fiercely uncompromising and transcended convention, each leaving its unique mark on Japan’s film industry. In their own distinct way, these prolific cinematic works eschew traditional narrative structures and genre tropes to embrace distortion and symbolism. From dynamic and provocative colour, editing and camera ...
