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

Featuring 21 world premieres, the 2025 Brisbane Festival promises "a world-class event with a fiercely local heart".

The latest arts appointments and departures.

Louise Bezzina’s 2025 Brisbane Festival will be her last as Artistic Director. She won’t be moving far, however.

Two of the creative forces behind Brisbane Festival's Salamander discuss transforming an empty warehouse into an eerie vision of the future.

Nineteen world premieres and more than 1000 performances in a Brisbane Festival bill spotlighting local talents with national profiles.

This month our features explore investing in music education, reevaluating Australian culture through a regional lens, two stage adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde and whether postmodernism has put paid to beauty.

The Artistic Director of the Brisbane Festival explains how her own children inspired her to invite Brisbane’s young people to suggest the music for this year’s Riverfire event.

International acts return for the first time in two years, alongside 20 world premieres, with more than half of the 500-odd performances offered free of charge.

On the streets of suburban Brisbane this month, audiences will see ballet performances and classes, be enrapt in chamber music and listen to an array of sopranos as part of Brisbane Festival. 

Dead Puppet Society's new production Ishmael is a contemporary reimagining of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, set 1000 years in the future in outer space.

Artistic Director Louise Bezzina hopes people will be able to come together "in a really bright, shimmery way, with a sense of celebration" at this year's Brisbane Festival.