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NewsDo You Hear the People Sing?: The 'Les Misérables' Arena Spectacular Is Coming to Australia in 2025
The music of the people, plus the songs of angry men, will echo thanks to a stacked cast and a 65-plus-piece orchestra.
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News'Cats' Is Returning to the Stage Down Under to Celebrate Its 40th Australian Anniversary
The movie mightn't have hit the mark, but you can see why this feline-fancying musical has been a huge theatre hit when it makes its Aussie stage comeback.
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News'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale' Has Added More Cities to Its Precious 2025 Australian Tour
This hit Middle-earth musical is not only taking the hobbits to Sydney, but to Melbourne and Perth as well.
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NewsSydney Theatre Company's Sarah Snook-Starring 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Is Heading to Broadway
After wowing London's West End, the 'Succession' actor will make her Broadway debut playing 26 roles in the one-performer Aussie stage sensation.
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NewsNow Open: The West End Electric, Brisbane's New 400-Plus-Seat Theatre and Bar, Is Here to Get Sparks Flying
You can now enjoy drinks and a show on Boundary Street at production house Strut & Fret's permanent new Brisbane venue.
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NewsSplash-Hit Céline Dion-Fuelled Musical-Comedy 'Titanique' Is Making Its Australian Debut in Sydney This Month
The laughs will go on at this off-Broadway award-winner, which is told through Dion's songs — and is finally making its maiden voyage Down Under.
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NewsNine 2024 Emmy-Winning TV Shows That You Should Watch Immediately
Your new must-watch list of Emmy-winners includes 'Baby Reindeer' and its has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed tale, the history-making 'Shōgun' and, yes, 'The Bear'.
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NewsNine New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Austin Butler's latest brooding role, serial-killer chiller 'Longlegs' and the animated antics of 'Inside Out 2'.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching Rashida Jones navigate a sci-fi mystery in Japan, Nicolas Cage face a post-apocalyptic future and a gripping Australian romance-scam thriller.
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NewsThe 15 Best Straight-to-Streaming Movies of 2024 So Far
From 2024's first half, you need to be catching an Oscar-winning documentary, Glen Powell as a fake assassin and plenty of horror shocks from your couch.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in July That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with 'Furiosa', the latest gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda and a hypnotic vision of an AI-dominated future.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsThe 15 Best Returning TV Shows of 2024 So Far
These are the beloved small-screen favourites to say "yes chef!" to, sleuth along with and giggle with — and get catchy songs stuck in your head from, too.
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NewsThe 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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NewsThe 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024 So Far
From gloriously surreal comedies and unforgettable true tales to stunning remakes and savvy sci-fi mysteries, 2024 has been filled with new small-screen highlights.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in June
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsLive 'Dungeons & Dragons' Show 'The Twenty-Sided Tavern' Is Rolling Into Australia for Its Down Under Premiere
You won't just watch this stage version of the tabletop roleplaying game — you play along, choosing the characters and helping shape the story.
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NewsThe Stage Musical Version of Festive Big-Screen Favourite 'Elf' Is Finally Making Its Australian Premiere
The film-to-theatre Broadway hit is heading Down Under, debuting in Sydney, so that you can catch the Christmas classic onstage.
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The Musical Version of 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Taking the Hobbits to Australian Stages in 2025
Middle-earth gets melodic at 'The Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale', which is making its Aussie debut in Sydney.
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News'Parks and Recreation' and 'The Afterparty' Star Ben Schwartz Is Bringing His Live Improv Show to Australia
He's also the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog — and he's locked in a two-city trip Down Under in 2025.
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News'Guys and Dolls' Is the Next Iconic Musical That Opera Australia Is Bringing to Sydney Harbour's Floating Stage
The Tony-winning Broadway sensation is Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour's pick for 2025, running for a month from late March.
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NewsThe First-Ever Caxton Street Comedy Festival Is Taking Over Four Venues Across One Side-Splitting October Day
Lloyd Langford, Michael Hing, Geraldine Hickey, Chris Ryan and more will be behind the mic as part of a lineup of 20-plus comedy gigs.
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News'RuPaul's Drag Race' Icon Bianca Del Rio Is Returning Down Under in 2025 with Her 'Dead Inside' Tour
Hurricane Bianca is back, this time breaking out her devilish snark and timing on an eight-city tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsDavid Sedaris Is Bringing His Latest Tour to Australia and New Zealand to Delight NPR Obsessives in 2025
Two years on from his last round of 'An Evening with David Sedaris' shows Down Under, the NPR humorist and bestselling author is returning.
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NewsHow Bangarra Dance Theatre Is Looking Beyond Australia with Its First Mainstage Cross-Cultural Collaboration 'Horizon'
“I really want to make sure that you, as the audience, will leave the theatre with a bit of the Torres Strait with you.”
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NewsThe First-Ever Australian Season of 'Dear Evan Hansen' Will Tour the Country After Its Sydney Debut
Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Tony-winning musical has locked in dates in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.
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NewsDolly Parton Has Announced a Broadway Musical Based on Her Life So Start Begging for It to Please Come Down Under
Set to debut in New York in 2026, this new stage show will step through the icon's story and career — and Parton has written new songs for it.
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NewsComing Soon: The West End Electric Is Brisbane's New 400-Plus-Seat Theatre and Entertainment Space
Strut & Fret isn't just bringing 'LIMBO — THE RETURN' to town for Brisbane Festival — it's launching a new venue.
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EventSeasonal Fruit Festival — Summer Edition
Fri, 24 Jan, 2025
Felons Barrel Hall, Brisbane City
Catch CC: DISCO!, Harvey Sutherland, Karate Boogaloo and more at this riverside festival curated by Jet Black Cat Music at Felons Brewing Co.
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EventEurovision on Tour
Wed, 13 Nov, 2024
The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley
Everyone's favourite Europop song contest is bringing its live concerts to Australia — and Brisbane — for the first time ever.
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EventNot On Your Rider: Halloween Edition
Thu, 31 Oct, 2024
The Triffid, Newstead
Brisbane's 'Spicks and Specks'-style IRL music game show is getting spooky with its October quiz night at The Triffid.
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EventFatboy Slim: Australian Tour 2025
Sun, 23 Mar, 2025
Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton
The UK dance music legend is playing outdoor digs in wineries on his latest Australian tour, including at Sirromet Wines in Mount Cotton.
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EventBritish Film Festival
Wed, 6 Nov - Sun, 8 Dec 2024
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations
This year's showcase of UK cinema features Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield's new romance 'We Live in Time', not one but two Saoirse Ronan movies and Barry Keoghan's latest.
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EventLaneway Festival
Sat, 8 Feb, 2025
Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills
'Brat' summer is coming Down Under: Charli XCX is headlining Laneway Festival 2025, with Beabadoobee, Clairo, Remi Wolf, BICEP and Barry Can't Swim for company.
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EventDiscovering Ancient Egypt
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - Sun, 17 Aug 2025
Queensland Museum, South Brisbane
This huge ancient Egypt exhibition featuring 200-plus objects is giving Queensland Museum a big blast from the fascinating past.
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EventSigur Rós: Orchestral Tour
Tue, 27 May, 2025
QPAC Concert Hall, South Brisbane
On the Icelandic band's latest Australian tour, they're pairing their ethereal tunes with 41-piece live orchestras.
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EventA Netherworld Halloween
Thu, 31 Oct, 2024
Netherworld, Fortitude Valley
To celebrate the spookiest time of the year, Fortitude Valley's arcade bar is hosting a dress-up monster mash.
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EventJewish International Film Festival
Thu, 7 Nov - Sun, 17 Nov 2024
New Farm Cinemas, New Farm
2024's JIFF is opening with Jesse Eisenberg's 'A Real Pain' — and there's plenty more highlights across its 41-film program from there.
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NewsTony- and Grammy-Winning Musical 'Hadestown' Will Make Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025
The hit production, which hit Broadway in 2019, gives the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice a new spin featuring jazz and American folk tunes.
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News'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' Is Making Its Australian Debut at Brisbane Festival 2024
Playing an Aussie-exclusive season, this stage production features more than 200 original Gaultier couture pieces and celebrates the designer's 50-year career.
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NewsBlessed News: 'Sister Act' Is the Next Smash-Hit Broadway Musical That's Coming to Brisbane
Sydney and Melbourne aren't the only cities welcoming this five-time Tony-nominee, with the show locking in a Brisbane season from February 2025.
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NewsCalling All 'Black Books' Obsessives: Bill Bailey Is Touring Australia in October and November 2024
The 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' star is rarely far from stages Down Under, returning after last getting behind the mic in 2022.
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News'In the Heights' Is the Next Tony-Winning Hit Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda That's Coming to Australia
Sydney Opera House will turn into Washington Heights to host a six-week season of the Broadway smash in July and August.
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NewsSydney Theatre Company's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Might Be Making the Stage-to-Screen Leap
Cate Blanchett's production company Dirty Films has picked up the film rights for the one-performer Aussie stage smash.
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NewsTony-Winning Smash-Hit Musical 'The Book of Mormon' Is Coming Back to Australia in 2025
Sydney will host the return of this crass magnum opus from 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone from July 2025.
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Sarah Snook Just Won Best Actress at the Olivier Awards for Sydney Theatre Company's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
Shiv Roy isn't the only part that the 'Succession' star is winning awards for — here, she plays 26.
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News'Six the Musical' Has Locked in Dates for the Hit Show's Return 2024–25 Tour of Australia's East Coast
This empowering pop-scored remix of royal history will return to Melbourne and Sydney this year, then hit Brisbane to start 2025.
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News'Hamilton' Is Only Playing Sydney on Its Return to Australia in 2024 So Don't Throw Away Your Shot
The Broadway smash will retrace American history in the Harbour City again from July, then leave the country.
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NewsBrisbane Comedy Festival Is Slinging $24 Tickets to a Heap of 2024's Shows for 24 Hours
Score discounted seats to see Josh Thomas, Lizzy Hoo, Nat's What I Reckon, Nina Oyama, Arj Barker, Ed Byrne, David O'Doherty, Rhys Nicholson and more.
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News'The Wizard of Oz'-Inspired Blockbuster Musical 'Wicked' Will Defy Gravity in Brisbane in 2024
Following the Land of Oz's witches, the Broadway smash is headed to QPAC's Lyric Theatre from September.
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News'Love Stories' Is the Next Trent Dalton Book That's Coming to Life on the Stage at Brisbane Festival
Before 'Boy Swallows Universe' was turned into a Netflix series, it was adapted as a play first in Dalton's home town of Brisbane.
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NewsCirque du Soleil Is Bringing Its Spectacular Mexican-Inspired Production 'LUZIA' to Australia
This year also marks the circus troupe's 25th anniversary in Australia, with its latest production the tenth big-top show to visit the country.
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NewsIt's the One That You Want: Australia's Latest Stage Production of 'Grease' Is Coming to Brisbane in 2024
'Grease' will be the word at this new multimillion-dollar production of the 50s-set, five-decade-old show at QPAC from December.
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NewsChoreographer Benjamin Millepied's Stunning 'Romeo & Juliet' Ballet Is Coming to Australia for the First Time
Combining dance, theatre and cinema, the suite of shows give Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers a contemporary spin.
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News'Lady Dynamite' and 'Arrested Development' Star Maria Bamford Is Bringing Her New Stand-Up Tour to Australia in 2024
The comedy icon and 'Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere!' author is making her first trip to Australia in more than five years.
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'Sister Act' Is the Next Smash-Hit Broadway Musical That's Set to Finally Make Its Australian Premiere
Inspired by the 90s films of the same name, the five-time Tony-nominee will make its Aussie debut in Sydney in August 2024, then head to Melbourne from November.
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NewsBrisbane's 'Beauty and the Beast' Lottery Is Slinging Tickets to the Hit Disney Musical for Just $24
Via TodayTix, you can go in the running to nab 24 tickets for $24 each to every one of the stage production's Brisbane shows.
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News'The Woman in Black' Is Bringing Its Spooky Ghost Story to Australia's Stages in 2024
Australian actors John Waters and Daniel MacPherson will star in the page-to-stage adaption's latest Aussie run, which starts haunting this autumn.
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NewsNow Open: The Pink Flamingo Spiegeland Is Northshore Hamilton's New 400-Seat Riverside Cabaret Club
Already a hit on the Gold Coast, The Pink Flamingo is making Brisbane its home for seven years until its site becomes the Olympic Media Village.
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NewsDylan Alcott Will Play The Narrator When 'The Rocky Horror Show' Returns to Sydney in 2024
The disability advocate, tennis champion and presenter will star opposite Jason Donovan, who slips back into Frank N Furter's fishnets.
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NewsBrisbane Comedy Festival Has Unveiled the Next Lineup of Hilarious Folks Who'll Get You Giggling in 2024
The Brisbane Powerhouse-hosted event just keeps getting bigger, with Ed Byrne, Stephen K Amos, Wil Anderson, Lizzy Hoo and an improvised whodunnit joining the bill.
