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City moves centre stage: Brisbane Festival unveils 2026 program

With an Olympic Games on the horizon, Brisbane Festival seeks to position the city as a leading cultural destination in the Asia-Pacific.

June 9, 2026
Classical Music, Festivals
features

Season Preview 2026: Festivals

What do our festivals have on offer in the year ahead?

December 19, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Your Eternal Memories (Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra & Brisbane Festival)

A unique, sometimes hilarious and very memorable celebration of the tapestry of our lives and stories.

September 15, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Congratulations, Get Rich! (La Boite Theatre & Brisbane Festival)

A hilarious and heart-wrenching new musical comedy about mothers, daughters, ghosts and karaoke.

September 12, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Back to Bilo (Belloo Creative & Brisbane Festival)

A moving story of resilience and resistance, Back to Bilo is a call to action in every sense.

September 11, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: La bohème (Opera Queensland & Brisbane Festival)

Bohème again – but this staging slays with stunning performances and design.

September 5, 2025
Theatre
features

Five Questions for Katherine Lyall-Watson

The Brisbane-based playwright discusses her play, Back to Bilo, about a family of Sri Lankan asylum seekers taken into immigration detention.

August 25, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Jazz, News, Opera, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
features

Newsworthy: September 2025

A round-up of our recent news reports.

August 25, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Orchestral, Theatre, Vocal & Choral
features

On Stage: the events you need to see in September 2025

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

August 25, 2025
Festivals, Theatre
features

Back to Bilo: A homecoming story

Though deeply tied to Queensland, this dramatised theatre documentary speaks to broader questions about who Australia welcomes and why.

August 22, 2025
Festivals, Theatre
features

Gatsby at the Green Light and a Twelfth Night reborn

The revamp of an iconic theatre ensures Brisbane will remember this party long after it is over.

August 18, 2025
Chamber, Festivals
features

Turning it up to 100 at Brisbane Festival

100 axes! 100 amps! Canadian composer Tim Brady's mass music project 100 Guitars is ready to rock this year's Brisbane Festival.

August 6, 2025
Festivals, News
news

New Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival announced

Currently Head of Contemporary Performance at the Sydney Opera House, Ebony Bott takes the reins at a critical time for Brisbane Festival.

July 29, 2025

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