The Urbanite's Culture desk covers Brisbane's arts scene in depth — theatre, opera, ballet, exhibitions and the ideas shaping the city's creative life. From opening night reviews to artist profiles, this is where we track what's worth your attention on stage and in the gallery.
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The Bradford-born, Leeds-raised artist delivers her second album via Island Records — a 15-track record of dualities, heartbreak and genre-d…
The New Zealand icon breaks her eight-year studio silence with an album that splits itself clean down the middle — tender country on one sid…
The GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter returns with a bold third album that trades introspection for ambition — and earns every bit of it.…
After 67 weeks, 532 performances and 875,000 audience members, MJ The Musical has taken its final Australian bow across Sydney, Melbourne, B…
Disney's live-action Moana (2026) is a confident, moving piece of cinema — joyful without being naive, culturally rich without being heavy-h…
Fever Hub in Fortitude Valley is fast becoming Brisbane's multi-experience VR destination, with Luna: A Journey to the Moon and Virtual Zone…
Cascada is heading back to Australia for her first-ever solo headline tour, celebrating 20 years of Everytime We Touch — with a Brisbane dat…
Madonna's Confessions II is out now. Our verdict on her fifteenth studio album, a proper sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor.…
Confessions II lands July 3 on Warner Records. Here's the Coachella surprise, the Tribeca-premiered short film, and everything else that's b…
Croatian choreographer Leo Mujić brings the Australian premiere of his acclaimed Hamlet to Queensland Ballet — a production that is assured,…
The FRIENDS™ Experience is open on Queen Street Mall — and thirty years on, it turns out the world still isn't done with this show.…
We attended the exclusive Brisbane premiere of Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5 — and left genuinely moved. Brindusa Muresan reviews.…
Shake & Stir Theatre Co tackle Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the first time on the QPAC mainstage — a multimedia, camera-driven retelling for th…
Queensland Ballet presents the Australian premiere of Hamlet — a bold and contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare's iconic tragedy, choreogr…
Byron-based artist Jeremy Kay transforms a Potts Point gallery into a glowing resin landscape for one of Vivid Sydney's most intimate after-…
The ghost-with-the-most is back at QPAC's Lyric Theatre from 7 June, this time led by Broadway star Andy Karl — and all performances are now…
A landmark exhibition now open at London's Victoria & Albert Museum draws on more than 30 years of QAGOMA's Asia Pacific Triennial — and it'…
Brisbane's season of MJ The Musical closes on 24 May. Broadway sensation Ilario Grant leads an extraordinary cast in this Olivier and Tony A…
