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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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Fifty years on, Rock of the Westies returns on 20 November with nine unreleased piano-and-vocal versions, and the 'Street Kids' take is stre…
Elsewhere in Australia: Mackenzie Dunn and Javon King lead Perryman Theatre Company's new staging of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Year…
Brisbane painter Sarah Philips fills West End's Vacant Assembly with candlelit seascapes in her solo show Traces, open until Sunday 11 Octob…
Aaron Sorkin's companion to The Social Network is in Australian cinemas now. After the Brisbane preview, Nicholas Blake found it clear, dryl…
Queensland Ballet's 2027 season brings the Australian premiere of Doña Perón: The Story of Evita, a world premiere Little Prince narrated by…
Laneway 2027 hits Brisbane Showgrounds on 13 February with tickets now on general sale, and Rachel Chinouriri's second album lands on 16 Oct…
Hilary Duff plays the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Thursday 22 October, with La Roux as special guest, as her new song CATastrophe lands…
Avenue Q, the Tony Award-winning musical about puppets, rent and bad decisions, returns to Australia in 2027, opening its tour at QPAC's Lyr…
Queensland Ballet's annual Bespoke season returns with three world premieres — a triple bill of ecological grief, psychological tension, and…
Fifty years after the sessions wrapped at 4:54am, Stevie Wonder has personally curated a four-song EP of previously unreleased recordings fr…
Brisbane artist Justene Williams brings three decades of riotous, genre-bending work to Queensland Art Gallery this October, in the largest …
Ngugi artist Elisa Jane Carmichael will spend the next year folding glass into a practice already built on cyanotype and weaving, ahead of a…
Island Records has confirmed U2's 16th studio album, Carnaval De Luz, arrives November 13 — the band's first new album in nine years, led by…
Teddy Swims has announced his sophomore album UGLY and unveiled soul-baring single 'Perfect Man', a song about self-forgiveness written in t…
The Kiwi electronic duo's latest single fuses vintage UK garage basslines with a distinctly modern dance-floor edge.…
Tinashe releases "Pillow Fight" and "I'd Rather Be Alone" ahead of her new album Popstar, out 25 September, and is confirmed for two dates o…
Zach Cregger's original take on Resident Evil finally closes the gap between the games and the movies — faithful, fast-paced, and genuinely …
Charlie Jeer's new collaboration with three-time BRIT-nominated Cat Burns arrives just weeks before his first-ever Brisbane show — the final…
Jhené Aiko's fourth studio album is a 20-track tribute to Los Angeles, featuring Kendrick Lamar, Larry June, Ab-Soul, Tyga and OHMA.…
Nearly three decades after defining late-nineties country-pop, "You're Still The One" gets a neon-soaked, dancefloor overhaul directed by Jo…
Beck returns to the intimate, unvarnished territory of Sea Change and Morning Phase on his new album Ride Lonesome, reuniting the musicians …
No mics, no sets, no safety net: inside Griffith's Queensland Academy of Excellence in Musical Theatre as its Class of 2026 closes a three-y…
Perth-born dark pop artist Alexandria releases her most ambitious single yet, a medieval-pop exploration of forbidden romance, backed by a d…
Sydney producer Yes Boone has dropped his first release since signing with Warner Music Australia and Warner Records US — and he's confirmed…
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Brisbane Festival is running right now — 700-plus performances, 2,600 artists, three weeks across the city. Here's where it actually came fr…
The world-exclusive 'Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company' has opened at GOMA, bringing the real Fraggle Rock sets to …
