Arts

BRISBANE-POWERHOUSE Comedy Festival 2025

Laugh out loud at the 2025 Brisbane Comedy Festival

The 2025 Brisbane Comedy festival has a $25 ticket special until Wednesday (March 19) for many of their participating performers. This year the festival promises more
Read more 18 March 2025
Romeo & Juliet Queensland Ballet

Rising star to dance in Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet

One of the world’s best young ballerinas will star in the greatest love story of all time – Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet – beginning this Friday at
Read more 17 March 2025
Danie Mellor

Marru exhibition brings new dimensions to art

Audiences can examine new ways of seeing the world with Danie Mellor’s Marru/ the unseen visible exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery. “Marru” means
Read more 17 March 2025
Here you come again musical. | Newsreel

Here we go again, no Brisbane show for Dolly fans

Brisbane fans of Dolly Parton will need to start saving for plane tickets with a hit musical featuring the songs of the American country music legend skipping Queensland
Read more 13 March 2025
Crowd at live music event. | Newsreel

Tax relief call for live music industry

A tax offset was one of a raft of recommendations handed down by a Government inquiry into Australia’s live music industry. The House of Representatives Standing
Read more 11 March 2025
Crowded House 2007. | Newsreel

Something so strong in Aussie documentary industry

Documentaries on iconic band Crowded House and the Federal Government Robodebt scandal are among projects to receive Screen Australia funding. Screen Australia Head of
Read more 5 March 2025
La Boite's production of Macbeth. | Newsreel

Witches’ toil and trouble bubbles to the surface at La Boite

With witches currently taking centre stage in many productions, it is timely that La Boite’s latest offering allows the witches of Macbeth to star. The Brisbane
Read more 3 March 2025
Gene Hackman. | Newsreel

Gene Hackman remembered as the actor’s actor

By Will Jeffery Gene Hackman, an acting titan of 1970s and ‘80s Hollywood with more than 80 screen credits to his name, has died at 95. He was found dead in his home
Read more 28 February 2025
Singer-songwriter Roberta Flack. | Newsreel

Relive Roberta Flack’s Top 10 Billboard hits

Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Roberta Flack has died aged 88. American music and entertainment magazine Billboard said Flack, who was reported as passing away
Read more 26 February 2025
Music producer Wondagurl. | Newsreel

Collab talent set to work with top producers

The rising Aussie artists to be mentored by Grammy-nominated producers Tommy Brown and WondaGurl have been named. ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd said 10 successful artists had
Read more 24 February 2025