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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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Our review of Queensland Theatre's Small Mouth Sounds, a silent comedy where every seat has headphones and the smallest sound becomes the st…
The actor who gave Star Trek its conscience and the X-Men their moral centre died on Wednesday in Los Angeles, after a private illness his f…
In the duo's telling, Haute and Freddy are circus runaways. The Los Angeles pop pair release their Halloween single 'Film Noir' and play Bri…
Every night on his sold-out European tour, Jude York asked fans for secret love letters. On Thursday the Toowoomba-born singer plays Melt at…
Taika Waititi's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel is sweet, lush in texture and full of joyful, tender moments, with Jenna Ortega as a so…
Two sisters inherit their mother's casting agency in Joy Hopwood's Australian indie dramedy, which screens for one night only at Reading Cin…
Olivia Rodrigo's “expectations” remix with Chappell Roan is out now, and the video turns it into a retro game show hosted by David Byrne.…
Co-director Bridget Boyle on Queensland Theatre's silent comedy, where every audience member wears headphones and the smallest sounds become…
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 independent company Yeah Nah Theatre stages Queensland playwright Liam Lowth's new dinner-party drama Lucky at Queensland Theatre's…
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…
Queensland Symphony Orchestra marks its 80th anniversary in 2027 with a monumental programme spanning Beethoven, John Adams, kinetic puppetr…
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 …
