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Bananaland review – Kate Miller-Heidke’s new musical comedy is a miraculous joy
Stacked with sly gags about the music business, this delightfully absurd show about a punk-rock outfit that rebrands as a kids’ band is a love letter to all kinds of dreamers
Kate Miller-Heidke’s next musical asks: what if a punk band accidentally becomes the Wiggles?
The team behind Muriel’s Wedding The Musical – Miller-Heidke, her husband Keir Nuttall and star Max McKenna – have reunited for Bananaland
Salamander review – Brisbane festival opens with a world-class dance epic
Inspired by JG Ballard’s The Drowned World and set in a Perspex maze created by Beyoncé’s stage designer, this dystopian dance-theatre show is truly unique
What happens when one person in a couple transitions? Trans people share what came next
Two deeply personal plays at Brisbane festival explore what it can be like to come out as trans in a relationship – when ‘plenty have broken because of it’, says one playwright
‘Tonight felt like heaven’: Australia’s ballroom scene serves at the Alexander Ball – in pictures
Wayfinder review – playful, colourful and immersive dance lights up with joy and hope
Dark night of the sole: teenagers are taking adults on tours of Brisbane – and it’s brilliant chaos
Sunshine Super Girl review – a warm celebration of Evonne Goolagong Cawley
‘Othello is truly a dream role – no gammin!’ Jimi Bani takes on the role of a lifetime
‘Brisbane has come of age’: the queer and migrant artists helping shed the city’s ‘cringe’
Australian arts in focus
Queering the Iliad: the Brisbane show bringing big spectacle – and big love – to an ancient storyShannon Molloy’s harrowing memoir takes the stage: ‘There’s power in sharing really dark stories’
‘A bond unlike any other’: dog-lovers in for a treat at Brisbane festival
Part dog park, part talkshow, Let’s Be Friends Furever explores our relationship with canines – as a bunch of them take to the stage
Brisbane festival's Street Serenades: guerrilla outdoor gigs give a sense of post-pandemic possibility
Planning a concert and not telling anyone sounds like a marketing error, but festival organisers promise it was intentional
Tumbling, balancing and soaring together: creating circus in the time of Covid
Circa’s Leviathan brings together 36 performers for the biggest in-theatre show of a scaled-back Brisbane festival
Rite of Spring review – erotic and mesmerising tale of sacrifice with a Buddhist twist
Chinese superstar choreographer Yang Liping creates a real crowd pleaser as timeless European dance gets the Tibetan treatment
'Everything could go wrong': Invisible Cities takes over Brisbane warehouse in massive show
The multi-faceted adaptation of Italo Calvino’s novel is being billed as Brisbane festival’s most ambitious piece to date
'The best pop concert you’ve never been to’: new musical about teen fangirls is a Brisbane festival hit
Riverfire: Brisbane festival refuses to cancel fireworks extravaganza in wake of bushfires
Bryony Kimmings on her 'big-dick-swinging' show: ‘Three times we’ve had people faint’
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