The Speigeltent is back with the smash hit Champagne-Cabaret, Blanc De Blanc Encore!
As part of Brisbane Festival’s early event program 2022, The Spiegeltent will be setting up at its new Northshore home, Twilight Electric, from 27 July for a strictly limited season. This is the return of the hit 2019 Brisbane Festival show, Blanc de Blanc Encore, which has broken box-office records across Australia since its Sydney Opera House premiere.
It’s time to re-immerse yourself in the hedonistic, glamorous and extravagant world of vintage French flair, risqué humour, ...
Direct from Japan, Maho Magic Bar will se the Brisbane night ablaze this July!
Playing at Brisbane’s all new Twilight Electric precinct at Northshore, as part of Brisbane Festival’s early event program, MAHO MAGIC BAR promises to jet audiences into a neon-lit ‘Tokyo’ night, with all the mischief, mayhem, cocktails and laughter you could wish for.
Step inside the dazzling pop-up venue and you will find an intimate bespoke and gorgeously refined bar and entertainment space spread across six performance areas. After taking your seat and selecting your drink of ...
Hugh Sheridan is bringing Hughman to the Brisbane Festival!
See Hugh in a new light as they spin beats from Whitney Houston and George Michael to Sister Sledge, Olivia Newton-John, MJ, Sinatra and Walk the Moon.
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With high-voltage tap, exhilarating disco moves and cool cabaret, HUGHMAN is an entertaining mash-up of music, colour, and costume.
Hughman
17 - 18 September 2021
South Bank Piazza, Brisbane
www.brisbanefestival.com.au
The world premiere of Let’s Be Friends Furever is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
From guide dogs to show dogs, sniffer dogs to your dog, Let’s Be Friends Furever is a community crowd-sourced homage to our four-legged best friends.
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Melding documentary with video in a theatre-turned-dog-park, The Good Room invite you off-the-leash and on-the-record to witness canines and their companions in all their short-and-stubby, tall-and-lanky, perfectly groomed and helplessly haywire glory.
And yes, there will be real dogs on stage!
Let’s Be ...
Skyfall is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
Press your tuxedo, polish the Aston Martin, and conceal your weapon – this show is licensed to thrill!
Swing hits, brass blasts and fresh arrangements of hit theme songs from the incomparable 007 franchise take audiences deep inside the high rollers’ room where stakes are high and martinis are dry.
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Queensland’s leading couple of song, Naomi Price (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Ladies in Black) and Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, Swing on This), ...
Tyrone Noonan is bringing What’s Going On to the Brisbane Festival!
ARIA Award-winning artist Tyrone Noonan, former co-lead singer of No.1 chart-topping Brisbane band, george, pays homage to the enduring legacy of American singer/songwriter Marvin Gaye.
Performing all the songs from Marvin’s musical masterpiece, What’s Going On, along with select choices from throughout his hugely successful career, Tyrone brings his jazz/Latin/soul band, Palimpsest, along for this smooth ride.
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Just in time for this iconic album’s 50th ...
Airship Orchestra is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
With galaxy-streaked skin and stardust-like voices, they beckon visitors inside...
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Made from mesmerising inflatables, some as high as six metres, these mystical travellers light up as they perform an arresting choir score that will transport you to another world. If you find eyes following your every move, never fear – they mean no harm.
Landing on Brisbane’s Art Boat for the first two weeks of the Festival before grounding at Northshore, Hamilton for the ...
RED is coming to the Brisbane Festival!
Tens of thousands of years ago, a genetic mutation gave rise to red hair in humans. Now, like many, they are endangered.
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Dancenorth uses the plight of its dancers as an allegory for a contracting world; a world where biodiversity is progressively being suffocated and silenced.
Epic and intimate, RED illuminates the universal challenge of our survival. Time is running out.
RED
8 - 12 September
The Warehouse, Northshore, Hamilton
www.brisbanefestival.com.au
Ishmael by Dead Puppet Society is coming to QPAC!
On the resource-depleted earth of a not so distant future, a young climate refugee named Ishmael is given the chance to build a new life, provided she can survive a voyage to the outer solar system aboard the MV Pequod under the command of the obsessive Captain Ahab.
Literary epic Moby Dick reimagined as a contemporary space saga, Ishmael recasts earth’s no-longer-vast oceans with the immensity of space, and the endless possibilities and terrors it holds. Set on a futuristic version of ...
Brisbane Powerhouse showcases 44 Sex Acts in One Week!
After seeing national success, the critically-acclaimed 44 Sex Acts in One Week is now making its way to Brisbane Powerhouse for four steamy nights.
Girl meets boy. Girl hates boy. Girl f*** boy 44 times. The world collapses.
This live foley comedy gig is an apocalyptic rom-com, told through six microphones, four plastic sex tarps and lots of fruit.
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Watch five actors go down on their microphones and some random fruit in a theatrically dextrous response to ...
