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Cluedo! The Interactive Game returns to Brisbane this April!

Queensland’s biggest ever immersive theatre season promises more melodrama, more laughter, and more suspense as the popular murder-mystery game leaps off the board and into one of the city’s Heritage-listed buildings. Audience members are called upon to play the part of guests and amateur sleuths at a doomed 1930s cocktail party and must collect clues throughout the evening to solve the bloody crime. Was it Professor Plum, in the Conservatory with the candlestick, or Miss Scarle...

Supercell, A triple threat dance festival returns to Brisbane for a third year!

The premier showcase of contemporary dance leaps on to stages across the city, spotlighting Queensland’s major dance companies including Expressions Dance Company, Dancenorth, Queensland Ballet, Phluxus2 Dance Collective and The Farm as well as interstate artists and emerging and independent talent. Curator and co-founder Kate Usher said the 2019 theme was The view from here: Dance in the Asia Pacific and encompasses seven major performance pieces, emerging works, a film program, a ...

Cirque du Soleil is returning to Australia with Kurios

Tickets ON SALE from Monday 18 March at 9am by visiting cirquedusoleil.com/kurios or by calling 1800 036 685. KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities had its world premiere in Montréal April 2014 and since its debut, the critics have been raving across North America: “It is not to be missed on any account,” said Chris Jones in The Chicago Tribune.  “KURIOS is the most enthralling, consistently over-the-top magical show Cirque du Soleil has sent our way in a long time,” raved Robert ...

Dangerous Liaisons Ballet is coming to QPAC

Based on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ time-honoured novel, Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Associate and world-renowned choreographer Liam Scarlett breathes life into this sultry tale in a world premiere production. Set amongst the aristocratic elite of late 18th century France, this evocative and vivid work will scintillate audiences.   //   With a story that has captivated audiences around the world for over 200 years, Dangerous Liaisons is a hedonistic tale of love, ...

Banff Mountain Film Festival Australian Tour

Showcasing a carefully curated selection of the best films from Canada’s famous nine-day international festival, the event will travel to 30 Australian towns and cities, inspiring audiences in 70 packed screenings. Travel to exotic landscapes and remote cultures, and get up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2018/2019 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. Give your adventure dreams more oxygen this year, with a ticket ...

Reagan Kelly coming soon to Metro Arts!

Tim Hill directs award winning playwright Lewis Treston’s quintessentially Brisbane show that Queensland audiences have never seen. Everyone is telling former school captain Reagan Kelly that she should get a degree, get a job, get married and do the whole ‘life’ thing… but what do they really know about life? Her parents are getting divorced, her brother is dating a creep, even her gay best friend has lost his sparkle and her last suicide attempt was a total failure.   // ...

Aurora 2019 Sideshow Announced!

Aurora will be heading out for theatre sized shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle and, much like the enchanting light display with which she shares her name, this prodigiously talented 22-year-old songwriter is an inspiring spectacle.   //   Having amassed over 200 million streams and huge sales of her debut album All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend, Aurora recently released the first instalment of an ongoing project titled Infections Of A Different Kind ...

Brisbane Ice Cream Festival is back this month!

Here’s the scoop, friends: Brisbane Ice Cream Festival is back for Round 3, after 2 show-stopping, sold out years of icy indulgence. Head to West Village on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th – it’s frozen, it’s fun, and entry is free (although registering is necessary if you wish to attend, more on securing tickets below)! For the first time ever, not one, but TWO incredible days, three ticketed sessions and 17 addictive food stalls await. Get ready to melt, Brisbane, this ...

Queerstories returns to Brisbane Comedy Festival!

Fast becoming an institution round the country, Queerstories sells out shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and regional areas, bringing storytellers from all walks of life to the stage.   //   Funny, moving, surprising and engaging, the stories from Queerstories are also available on the podcast, and as a collection of short stories published by Hachette Australia in 2018 and launched at the Sydney Opera House. Queerstories 9 March 2019 Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane ...

Love Me, Love Me Exhibition at Metro Arts

The central work in the exhibition, Give Me All Your Love (2019), consists of an appropriated lyric from a love song, re-presented as an installation of hand-punched confetti suspended between clear acrylic letters.   //   Installed alongside balloons and streamers, the confetti aims to capture a moment in time and evoke the simultaneous feelings of anticipation and disappointment that are associated with confessions of love. The work appropriates lyrics in order to ...