Theatre
La Boite sets the stage for star-studded season

Five shows. Two world premieres. Two homecomings. Our finest theatrical talent. La Boite invites Brisbane to see things differently in 2027.

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Film & TV

Driving Mr Mann: Sandra Hüller takes the wheel in Fatherland

German actor Sandra Hüller is renowned for her intense, emotionally restrained and multi-layered portrayals of women navigating deep moral, historical and psychological pressures.
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Keep calm and carry on … with the best of British cinema

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The price of glory: Screen icon to reflect on his ‘flawed hero’ of the Australian Outback

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Take a seat: That Twilight guy is now Oscar material

Visual Art
Image captured: Contemplating the long present

Since the 1980s, John Young’s conceptual art and post-modernist practice has been informed by philosophical and theoretical tenets that have placed the Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist at the forefront of contemporary art.

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Visual Art
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Visual Art

‘Jeweller to the lost’ sparkles at GOMA

A jeweller for five decades, Brisbane artist Barbara Heath invites children to explore the artform through drawing, hands-on activities and and digital play in her Children’s Art Centre exhibition, Hidden Jewels.

Film & TV
Driving Mr Mann: Sandra Hüller takes the wheel in Fatherland
German actor Sandra Hüller is renowned for her intense, emotionally restrained and multi-layered portrayals of women navigating deep moral, historical and psychological pressures.
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Books & Poetry
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Books & Poetry

From courtroom to Country: Rethinking what justice actually looks like

Part philosophical meditation and part historical reckoning, Larissa Behrendt’s latest book is a revelatory exploration of how law and lore can co-exist.

Review
The show must go on (even if the censors, spies and actors don’t)

Stephen Vagg’s fictional rendering of the opening night in the ’60s of a controversial Aussie play is a farcical comedy about sex, spies, spoons, acting and why the show must go on.

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Theatre
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Theatre

La Boite sets the stage for star-studded season

Five shows. Two world premieres. Two homecomings. Our finest theatrical talent. La Boite invites Brisbane to see things differently in 2027.

Music

According to Avenue Q, it no longer sucks to be you

Warning – this show is not for children – Avenue Q returns to OZ next year, so expect to see puppets having sex, singing about being ‘a little bit racist’ and gleefully owning their predilections for porn.

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Thumbnail for Opera soloists and 200 choristers bring to life Handel’s masterpiece … for one night only

Opera soloists and 200 choristers bring to life Handel’s masterpiece … for one night only

Thumbnail for Am I ever gonna see her show again? Music legend’s daughter steps out of the shadows

Am I ever gonna see her show again? Music legend’s daughter steps out of the shadows

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Ten years on the naughty list: The campest, crudest cabaret returns