Search results for: “brisbane festival”
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Review: Escape by Diavolo 2026 Brisbane Festival
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★★★★☆ When I told people I was going to see Escape for Brisbane Festival and they asked me what it was about, I didn’t quite know how to answer. Is it movement using structures onstage? Having now seen the production, presented by Diavolo | Architecture in Motion, I realise Escape is so…
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Review: Make, Believe, Magic, The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company 2026 Brisbane Festival
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Make, Believe, Magic, The Worlds of the Jim Henson Company has officially landed right here in Brisbane exclusively at QAGOMA as part of Brisbane Festival, and it is most definitely magic! The exhibition is an immersive journey through the imaginative storytelling of the Jim Henson Company, featuring props and characters from Fraggle…
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Review: Scenes With Girls 2026 Brisbane Festival
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★★★½ Following a sold-out 2024 season, Scenes with Girls returns, this time as part of Queensland Theatre’s 2026 DOOR 3 program in a season for Brisbane Festival. Written by Miriam Battye and presented by Matilda Award-winning independent theatre company Salad Days Collective, Scenes With Girls explores the raw and emotional…
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Review: Koreaboo La Boite Theatre 2026 Brisbane Festival
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★★★★☆ La Boite Theatre presents Koreaboo, an enlightening perspective on adoptee reconnection and coming to grips with one’s identity.Facing the personal struggles that come with early adulthood, Hannah (Michelle Lim Davidson) is eager to reunite with her biological mother, Soon Hee (Heather Jeong), in Korea and learn more about her…
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Review: Strong Is The New Pretty 2026 Brisbane Festival
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★★★★☆ I am a theatre guy, not a sports guy. I did, however, grow up in an NRL household (insert eye roll). My memories include Broncos flags hanging out the front of the house and my parents yelling at the TV. I never understood the hype. I am, however, always…
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Review: The Choir Of Man 2026 Brisbane Festival
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★★★★☆ Brisbane Festival certainly knows how to make an entrance. For opening night, QPAC was playing host to the all-female cast of Strong Is The New Pretty, while just outside, the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent had gone in completely the opposite direction with The Choir of Man. Nine British blokes. A…
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Brisbane Festival 2026 Comes Alive Today
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Today marks the spectacular opening of Brisbane Festival 2026, launching 23 glorious days of performance, public art and participation across the city, under the banner Switch On, Light Up, Come Alive. Running until Saturday 26 September, Artistic Director Ebony Bott‘s inaugural program ignites Brisbane’s streets, stages and skies in a…
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Riverfire By Australian Retirement Trust Expands For 2026 Brisbane Festival
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Brisbane’s ultimate night of celebration is gearing up to take over the city skyline once again. On Saturday 5 September, this year’s Brisbane Festival bursts into life with the return of Riverfire by Australian Retirement Trust, a spectacular fusion of community spirit and world-class creativity that promises to deliver one of the…
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Announcing Brisbane Festival 2026 Program: Switch On, Light Up, Come Alive
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Brisbane Festival has today unveiled its 2026 program, the inaugural vision of new Artistic Director Ebony Bott, and a bold, expansive celebration of art, community, and the city itself. For decades now, Brisbane Festival has long been the civic heart of the city – essential to its cultural identity and…
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Brisbane Festival 2026 First Look: The Choir Of Man & Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent Returns
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Brisbane Festival has today offered its first glimpse of what’s to come in 2026, announcing that the runaway West End hit and Olivier Award-nominee, The Choir of Man, will bring its irresistible, roof-raising celebration of community and music to South Bank Cultural Forecourt from 3 – 13 September for its…
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Review: The Bogong’s Song 2025 Brisbane Festival
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Bangarra Dance Theatre has premiered their newest work for children at this year’s Brisbane Festival, The Bogong’s Song: a call to Country. This fun and engaging story takes audiences on an adventure for connection and culture. With a mix of stunning shadow puppetry, dance, singing and beautiful visual displays, there…
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Review: Chatter (NYC) 2025 Brisbane Festival
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In all my years of passionately loving circus, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a clown as exposed as what I experienced in Spencer Novich’s Chatter at The West End Electric. And I mean that in every sense of the word. Exposed in mind and soul. Exposed in baring his nerves, his…
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Review: Elements Of Freestyle 2025 Brisbane Festival
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Elements of Freestyle is an unmissable masterpiece where dance meets extreme urban sports. Crafted by the renowned ISH Dance Collective, this adrenaline-fuelled production pushes the boundaries of performance. Fusing breakdance, inline skating, skateboarding, freestyle basketball, BMX, and parkour with exhilarating live musicianship, the result is an explosive vision which leaves the…
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Review: A Place In The Sultan’s Kitchen 2025 Brisbane Festival
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Joshua Hinton brings his grandmother’s legendary chicken curry to the QPAC stage for Brisbane Festival audiences in the heartwarming show, A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry). Inspired by his family’s restaurant in Milton, which his grandparents opened in 1983, Hinton highlights…
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Review: Congratulations, Get Rich! 2025 Brisbane Festival
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The pre-show soundtrack to the world premiere of La Boite Theatre’s Congratulations, Get Rich! includes an old-school karaoke favourite (Bon Jovi’s immortal Livin’ On A Prayer). In turn, the post-show soundtrack kicks off with a decidedly newer-school one (K-Pop Demon Hunters’ demonically catchy Golden). These highly popular tracks are well…
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Review: Milestone By William Yang 2025 Brisbane Festival
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William Yang showcased his photographic memoir, Milestone, at QPAC for one inspiring night only as part of the 2025 Brisbane Festival. In Milestone, Yang looks back on 80 years of his life through an extensive catalogue of photos that capture more than a moment in time. It shows Australia’s history…
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Review: Gems By L.A. Dance Project 2025 Brisbane Festival
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To headline this year’s Brisbane Festival, L.A. Dance Project presented a trilogy of contemporary ballets known collectively as Gems. The triptych of works, created between 2013 and 2016 for the company’s major patron, Van Cleef & Arpels, were all inspired by gemstones. L.A. Dance Project was founded by former New…
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Review: Gatsby At The Green Light 2025 Brisbane Festival
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Travel back to a time of sparkles and splendour at Twelfth Night Theatre’s Gatsby At The Green Light. Presented by Brisbane Festival in association with Blackbird Brisbane, this spectacular circus cabaret brings to life F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The rich and enigmatic Jay Gatsby (Spencer Craig)…
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Review: Bad Nature 2025 Brisbane Festival
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Bad Nature makes its highly anticipated world premiere in an exclusive Brisbane Festival season which sees Australasian Dance Collective team up with The Netherlands’ Club Guy & Roni. Bad Nature is described as an unflinching exploration of our relationship with the environment and one another. It delves into humanity’s contradiction…
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Review: La bohème 2025 Brisbane Festival Opera Queensland
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In the mid-1800s, French author Henri Murger wrote short stories based loosely on the lives of his fellow bohemians in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Those stories, known collectively as Scenes de la vie de bohème (Scenes of Bohemian Life), became the inspiration for Giacomo Puccini’s most famous opera, La…
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Review: Afterglow At City Botanic Gardens 2025 Brisbane Festival
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Come and see the City Botanic Gardens in a whole new light at Afterglow! Presented by Sony Music Entertainment as part of the 2025 Brisbane Festival, Afterglow is a world premiere fire and light trail that shines in the park’s stunning landscape. Following the overwhelming success of Lightscape in…
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Brisbane Festival 2025 Bursts To Life As The City Turns Technicolour
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Today marks the spectacular opening of Brisbane Festival 2025, launching 23 glorious days of performance, public art and participation across the city. Running until 27 September, the festival features 106 productions, 1,069 performances and 2,260 artists – with 21 world premieres and more than 43% of events free to the…
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Brisbane Festival 2025 Celebrates First Nations Culture And Storytelling
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Brisbane Festival 2025 proudly centres First Nations voices in a diverse and moving program of works that honour connection to Country, ancestral knowledge, cultural pride, and resilience. From bold dance theatre to intimate storytelling, community festivals to dazzling sky displays, the First Nations program features new commissions, returning favourites, and…
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Riverfire Returns To Ignite Brisbane Festival 2025
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Brisbane’s most beloved night of the year is back, bigger and brighter than ever. On Saturday 6 September, Brisbane Festival 2025 will kick off with an explosive celebration of creativity and community as Riverfire by Australian Retirement Trust lights up the city skyline in one of Australia’s most dazzling fireworks…
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Afterglow Flickers To Life In A World Premiere At Brisbane Festival
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Afterglow is a mesmerising and magical world premiere experience, emerging from the shadows to transform Brisbane’s iconic City Botanic Gardens from Friday 5 September to Saturday 27 September 2025. Follow the flame and be captivated by a glowing dreamscape of dancing shadows, candlelit installations and fire sculptures in the world…
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Brisbane Festival Launches Its Epic 2025 Program
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Brisbane Festival has unveiled its most expansive and city-shaping program to date, in a dynamic celebration of art, culture and community. The blockbuster 2025 program invites audiences to experience the city anew — from towering whale bones on the river to a world premiere dance trilogy, and bridges reimagined as…
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Announcing The Lovers Musical For Brisbane Festival
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Shake & Stir Theatre Co and Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), in association with Brisbane Festival, today announced the premiere of a brand-new production of the breakout Australian pop musical The Lovers, running in QPAC’s Playhouse from 13 September to 5 October 2025. Written and composed by the wildly talented Laura Murphy, The Lovers is a fresh, high-energy reimagining…
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Review: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories, Brisbane Festival
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I haven’t been writing theatre reviews for long, but I’ve quickly learned that when a show is great, word gets around. Taking a quick glance on the QPAC website at ticket sales for the remaining season of Trent Dalton’s Love Stories confirms that word is definitely getting around: this is…
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Film Review: A Life Illuminated 2025 Brisbane International Film Festival
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Last night, Brisbane’s Star Casino Leisure Deck was transformed into a mystical sanctuary of technicolour. All ages were welcomed to bask in the magnificence of deep-sea exploration for the Australian premiere of A Life Illuminated as part of the 2025 Brisbane International Film Festival. In 2012, the film’s Director Tasha…
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Brisbane International Film Festival Returns For A Bold New Era
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Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) returns this November, reimagined, revitalised and ready to reclaim its place among Australia’s great celebrations of cinema. Over four blockbuster days from Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 November 2025, Brisbane will transform into a city-wide stage for storytelling. From Brisbane’s iconic Streets Beach to The Star Brisbane’s Leisure Deck, the festival…
