Edward the Emu is coming to Brisbane this June!
With exceptional world-class puppetry, a beautiful original score and inventive storytelling, the award-winning Monkey Baa team are back with a hilarious and tender story of two emus searching for their identity.
Edward and Edwina both wonder if there is more to life than being an emu. Perhaps being a seal or a lion, or a snake is more exciting than an emu’s lot in life. Convinced the grass is greener in everyone else’s enclosure, the pair set out on an adventure to find their place ...
Erth’s Prehistoric World is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this April!
Experience life-like ancient creatures from land and sea together in one breath-taking show fuelled by extraordinary puppetry, theatrical magic and charm.
Erth’s Prehistoric World is a unique and thrilling adventure. Journey to the bottom of the ocean to discover ancient bio-luminescent creatures and incredible marine reptiles, then back to dry land to witness some of the most amazing dinosaurs to have walked the Earth.
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Experience the creatures of your ...
Garry Starr’s Greece Lightning is coming to the Brisbane Comedy Festival!
Never before has Medusa been looser, Achilles more sillies, or Uranus so heinous.
Having single handedly saved the performing arts in 2018 with his multi-award-winning debut show, comic wunderkind
Garry Starr returns with another anarchic masterclass not to be mythed.
Damien Warren-Smith grew up in the sleepy snowy mountains town of Cooma before studying at Actors Centre Australia.
Upon graduation he moved to London where he spent more than a decade working as a theatre actor as ...
Nat’s What I Reckon is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this May!
With hilarious commentary on everything from rosemary foraging to conspiracy theories about tissue-boxes in Camrys consistently clocking up views well into the millions, Nat is beloved for so much more than his sweary cooking clips.
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His dedicated audience of 2.5m+ champions are here for Nat’s love of taking the playful piss while never losing his message of kindness and inclusivity.
Strap in legends for another epic live multimedia piss-taking extravaganza ...
Girl and Guitar is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
Each of these artists will take their turn paying homage to the female guitarists and vocalists who’ve blazed the trail and inspired new generations of artists. It is an all too rare thing to see a girl and guitar taking centre stage but when she does, you’re going to listen.
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Joined onstage by a full band, expect stories, signature songs and righteous riffs from the likes of Joan Jett, Melissa Etheridge, Courtney Love, Tracey Chapman, Buffy Saint Marie, PJ ...
Exciting new festival CIRCFest22 Meanjin is coming to Brisbane!
Over 10 days from 21 April to 1 May, 2022 more than 114 extraordinary performers will thrill, entertain and mesmerise audiences with 76 diverse performances across 6 venues in Brisbane including Brisbane Powerhouse, Metro Arts, The Tivoli, La Boite Theatre, The Ron Hurley Theatre, and Kingston Butter Factory.
The brainchild of Cluster Arts, the nations’ celebrated production house for performing arts’ Circus & Physical Theatre companies, CIRCFest22 Meanjin will showcase First ...
Kári Gíslason and Richard Fidler in Conversation is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
Born in Iceland, Kári has set his latest epic and compelling novel against the dramatic backdrop of his birthplace and celebrates one woman’s quest, taking a sidelined figure from the Viking tales and finally putting her where she belongs – at the centre of the story.
Kári Gíslason and Richard Fidler in Conversation
27 February 2022
Brisbane Powerhouse
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Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
The Little Red Company creators of smash-hits Christmas Actually and There's Something About Music bring to life Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves as the third production in its soundtrack songbook trilogy.
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Sisterhood, individuality, diversity, inclusion and the unifying power of music. The audience can expect to be captivated by heaven-sent hits from Diana Ross and the Supremes, Lauryn Hill and Tina Turner, performed by divine divas Prinnie Stevens, Angela ...
A Girl’s Guide to World War is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
In 1916, a handful of Australian lady doctors decide they want to go to war. When the army turns them down – they go anyway. What follows is a year that changes their lives forever, a year filled with passion, freedom and power.
Featuring the award-winning all-girl band Vix and the Slick Chix, as well as unforgettable characters, stirring songs and rollicking humour, it is at its heart a truly uplifting love story. After sell-out shows, this home-grown smash-hit won the 2019 Matilda ...
The Grigoryan Brothers are coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this February!
Crafted around 18 personally selected and culturally significant objects, The Grigoryan Brothers will perform a program of original works, influenced from classical to jazz and contemporary music, on a variety of guitars including electric, 8 string tenor ukulele, 12 string and classical guitars that take us from the deep past of early Indigenous Australians to the making of contemporary Australian society.
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The Grigoryan Brothers
25 February 2022
Brisbane ...
