119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Deva Premal and Miten with special guest Manose present a transformative, healing and often ecstatic experience of sacred song and chant. For the last 20 years Deva Premal and Miten have taken thousands of people on their joyful journey of ancient mantras and sacred songs. With Deva's soul-searing vocals, Miten's melodious guitar, and Newari flautist Manose's divine addition of traditional flutes ...
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Not so much a cabaret show as a cry for help, Britney Spears: The Cabaret - starring Christie Whelan - was commissioned for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and has since enjoyed sell-out runs in Sydney and Melbourne. Hilariously funny and strangely touching, the show is a satirical look at the perils of fame by award-winning writer/director Deam Bryant. The musical direction of Mathew Frank sees Br ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 8th February 2012 - Sunday 12th February 2012
Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Moonlight offers an unrivalled inner city escape, providing outdoor screenings of new release, classic and cult films in Australia's iconic and most beautiful parks and gardens throughout summer. Nature combines with a magnificent cityscape backdrop to set the scene for an evening of picnic celebrations.
The Summer 20011/12 season runs from Wednesday, 14 December 2011 to Sunday, 26 February 201 ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 15th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'Where We Once Belonged' (NZ). Armstrong Creative and Pipa.
Meet Alofa. Samoan. Devoted Charlie's Angels fan. On a journey to find her true identity. Lively, spirited and inventive, Where We Once Belonged is an unflinchingly honest, sometimes brutal, and wildly funny coming-of-age story set in 1970s Samoa. Alofa and her friends Lili and Moa are typical teenage g ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 15th February 2012 - Saturday 18th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Travel alert: World Theatre Festival may stimulate laughter, elation and bewilderment. Here is your round-the-world ticket to international independent theatre.
Bringing you some of the world's illicit and atypical theatre, chosen to push your buttons and get you talking. Unearth what lies beneath your understanding of how you influence the world and how the world influences you.
Whether you ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 16th February 2012 - Sunday 26th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'Discover Love' (Belarus)
SMS: Kidnapping. Murder. Love. True Story.
Meet near the river. Don't tell anyone.
Existing in the shadows, the world's most political theatre company Belarus Free Theatre presents works that are illegal in their own country. Relying on SMS messages and word-of-mouth to direct audiences to performances in Belarus, they tour to exp ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 16th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - Scratch Series: 'Disappearing Acts' (Melbourne, Australia). Kelly Ryall and Martyn Coutts.
Join these interdisciplinary artists as they reconstruct Brisbane through image, sound, object and performance. Based on the responses to an open question posed prior to the performance, these interdisciplinary artists explore the essence of Brisbane. Submit your image, s ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 16th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - Scratch Series: 'The Room' (Brisbane, Australia).
Question physical and virtual worlds as you journey into live performance through an immersive digital installation.
This work explores the metaphor of rooms as an architectural reality and challenges you to consider your personal identity within the space.
You will take a performance walk through, in and a ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 16th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'This is It' (Sydney, Australia). Performance by Team Mess.
You Are There. We Are Here. This Is It. You are invited to the premiere press conference for the new movie, This Is It.
You're the press, and three star performers will take the stage to answer your questions about the new film. This is fun, improvised theatre, where your questions unravel the film' ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 16th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'Too Late! (Antigone) Contest #2' (Italy). Performance by Motus
Witness an intensely physical performance by one of Italy's most adventurous theatre companies famed for its take-no-prisoners style. A modern, anarchic take on a Greek tragedy, Too Late! scrutinises the dynamics of power and resistance in a dangerous mix of love and violence.
With Bert ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 16th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'And The Birds Fell From The Sky' (UK). Performed by Il Pixel Rosso.
Slip on your personal video goggles and headphones and get ready to take a dreamy and dangerous joyride for two. Combining cinema and theatre, this immersive, intimate performance casts you as the main character in a wild journey through the world of the Faruk clown. With your eyes and ears com ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 17th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - '"Elephant Gun' (Brisbane, Australia). Performance by Escapists and Breadbeard Collective.
Having delighted crowds as a part of the 2011 Scratch Series, Elephant Gun returns in an extended promenade adventure around Brisbane Powerhouse.
Explore unseen nooks and crannies, guided by The Escapists, creators of boy girl wall and Attack of the Attacking Attackers!, ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Saturday 18th February 2012 - Sunday 19th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - Scratch Series: 'Tales of The Underground' (Regional Queensland, Australia). Creative Regions.
Three short plays about mining by Angela Betzien, Victoria Carless and Rod Ainsworth.
Tales of the Underground explores the social impacts of mining through the experiences of three playwrights-in-residence in the ex-boom towns of Mount Morgan, Mount Perry and Craco ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Saturday 18th February 2012 - Saturday 25th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - Scratch Series: 'The Trouble with Harry' (Sydney and Brisbane, Australia).
Eugenia becomes Harry. Harry meets Annie. Trouble ensues.
The Trouble with Harry is the thrilling new play by award winning Australian playwright Lachlan Philpott. Join them for the premiere reading of this work, which tells the story of Eugenia Falleni, the notorious 'ManWoman' of Sy ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Saturday 18th February 2012 - Saturday 25th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'Bunny' (Melbourne, Australia). Roarawar Fertata.
2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival 'Innovation in Theatre' Award Winner 'Bunny' is a cruel and unusual love story about men.
A stage. Some booze. A pile of clothes. A dream-like path that appears strange and slightly mad. Two men lose control yet don't seem to care. Darkly comedic and subconscious, this work crea ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 22nd February 2012 - Sunday 26th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'The Method Gun' (Austin, Texas USA). Performance by Rude Mechs.
Kooky with a lot of charm, The Method Gun captures the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life.
The Method Gun explores the teachings of Stella Burden, actor-training guru of the Sixties and Seventies, ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 22nd February 2012 - Sunday 26th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - Scratch Series: 'Murder' (Sydney, Australia). Erth - Visual and Physical Incorporated.
Inspired by Nick Cave's song cycle, Murder Ballads, director Scott Wright uses dark puppetry to uncover our obsession with the ultimate taboo. Murder, a work-in-progress, explores homicide in pop culture, folklore, fantasy and fiction. Choreography, animation, projection and p ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 23rd February 2012 - Sunday 26th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'Men' (New York, USA)
Direct from New York City and led by Le Tigre's JD Samson, 'Men' bring their notorious blend of politics and danceable beats to Brisbane. Spend your night with 'Men' as they mix synthy electronic beats, impressive guitar loops and lyrics about credit card babies, radical surgery and prosthetic sex. 'Men's' debut record, Talk About Body, was ...
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - Scratch Series: 'A Spectacular of Sorts' (Brisbane, Australia). Monsters Appear.
An amalgam of eisteddfod zest, melancholic gaud and shameless theatrics. Inspired by Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, this showing is rough, black and ridiculous.
Ivan and Juniper feel hopelessly unprepared. They're in charge of a tribute - they must re-enact a list of alph ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 24th February 2012 - Sunday 26th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
World Theatre Festival - 'The Lady From The Sea' (India and Australia). Abhinaya Theatre Company and Topology.
A meditative and poetic adaptation of the original play by Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea observes the three main characters of a husband, wife and a stranger. The stranger, once engaged to the wife, has a compelling power over her and has returned to take her away. Her hu ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 24th February 2012 - Sunday 26th February 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Start getting your giggling gear into shape now! This year, the Brisbane Comedy Festival will have some well known names back again, alongside some brand new funny faces, all to give you an even more hilarious mix than you've ever seen before. Why not line-up to see your favourite comedian again and give someone new a red hot go too?
You'll be laughing long and hard come festival time so start ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 28th February 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
After selling out his debut season at Brisbane Comedy Festival 2011, local Brissy boy Damien Power is back with a new show - Brisbane Comedy Festival: Damien Power - Monkeys in Space. It's about monkeys, in space.
When the first monkey went into space, he floated amazingly above the earth, surrounded by incredible technology. Alone and anxious, all the monkey did was masturbate. As society and ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 28th February 2012 - Sunday 4th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Kat Davidson is a comedian. She would like you to think she's funny, insightful and sharp, but deep down she's untidy.
Untidy takes you inside the mind of one of Brisbane's finest comedians. Kat doesn't see the world in black and white, she sees it in degrees of untidiness. It's in the clutter and mess of life where she finds the funny.
Kat has been a goth and a bondage mistress, an executiv ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 28th February 2012 - Sunday 4th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Legendary comedian Paul Brasch returns to his home town of Brisbane to do a show - Brisbane Comedy Festival: Paul Brasch's Brisbane - aboutâ¦what else⦠his home town of Brisbane.
Brisbane is a hilarious and comedic tour de force of the colourful and strange history of the city from free settlers, floods, executions and world wars to Joh Bjelke Petersen, Expo 88, dust storms and more fl ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 28th February 2012 - Sunday 4th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Breakout Comedy is a showcase of the hottest emerging talent in Australian comedy. They are the most exciting new voices on the Australian comedy scene and are quickly commanding attention. Off the back of sold out festival shows, rave reviews and memorable television appearances, this award winning ensemble is letting loose its considerable comedic chops to deliver a rollicking showcase of world- ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 1st March 2012 - Saturday 3rd March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Australia's most visually compelling comedian returns to the stage.
Frank is built from funny, it's in his bones - from head to toe. Wide-eyed, he weaves physical comedy, whimsical songs and standup into a hilarious, slapstick, drop down hour of fun. A Frank Woodley show is like watching your inner child have playtime with Jacques Tati. And we wouldn't want it any other way.
"One of our grea ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 1st March 2012 - Sunday 4th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Award-winning comedian Matt Okine is black and likes chicken... but he's also chicken of some seafood. Culminating in a dawn showdown between himself and a very cranky mud-crab, Matt Okine's debut Brisbane Comedy Festival show explores what it's like being black, liking chicken, and being chicken of some seafood.
Beginning his career as a Triple J RAW finalist in 2004, Matt has been on NBC's hi ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 1st March 2012 - Saturday 3rd March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Tripod have made themselves stars of radio, television, and the stage by pretending to be stupid, all the while in glorious three-part harmony. In Brisbane Comedy Festival: Tripod - Men of Substance, Tripod finally decide to grow up and stop pretending to be stupid. Come to the show and find out if it was a smokescreen for actual stupidity all along.
"...one of the funniest things happening in ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 1st March 2012 - Sunday 4th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Racy songs, naughty stories and quick fire gags guaranteed to make you laugh your funbags off with Bev Killick.
Join the star and co-writer of Busting Out! as she puts the puppies back in the kennel and steps out for an hilarious night of stand up where nothing is sacred.
With innate comedic abilities and keen knack of remembering jokes, Bev gets the crowd laughing non-stop each and every t ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 2nd March 2012 - Sunday 4th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Brisbane Comedy Festival: Greg Sullivan's All Washed Up showcases one man's involuntary journey from glamorous show biz to brain numbing housework - and how it made him much happier.
Greg "Sully" Sullivan spent 14 years avoiding real work at Triple M, the last seven of those years as co-host of the sometimes top-rated breakfast show Cage. However, the heady life of a fringe regional celebrity ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Sunday 11th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
A tough choice between dancing and laughing as squabbling siblings kick out some mother-smashing jams.
Berlin's Prince and Princess of Indie Rock and Europop are back! Following sell-out shows in New York, Montreal, Dublin and Edinburgh, Otto and Astrid Rot present a tough choice between dancing and laughing, as these squabbling siblings kick out some mother-smashing jams. Fans of Spinal Tap and ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Sunday 11th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
You've seen him with Arj Barker, Akmal and Jimeoin. Now see Joel Ozborn in his one, sure-to-sell-out, one man show.
Since winning "Street Performer Of The Year" presented by the Sydney Opera House, Joel has toured his funny and spontaneous stand-up comedy to Las Vegas, L. A, New York, and now Brisbane. Join Joel for a hilarious evening of stand-up comedy, music, and a journey back to where it ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Sunday 11th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
There is a monster in the forest! And by monster I mean person and by forest I mean Comedy Festival! After a sell-out season at Melbourne Fringe Festival, Nick Coyle, one third of Pig Island (Simply Fancy and The Glass Boat), presents his first solo show, Me Pregnant!
Emeline, a cursed nerd, played by Nick, saves her medieval time-warped village from being terrorized by a savage creat ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Sunday 11th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Perrier Award Nominee and Time Out London Comedy Award Nominee Sarah Kendall returns to Australia with a blistering new hour of stand up in Brisbane Comedy Festival: Sarah Kendall - Persona.
Please don't come to the show if you're a knob.
This London-based Aussie has established herself as one of the leading talents on the international scene, having performed at many of the world's top com ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Sunday 11th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Sharks never sleep. If they did, they would die. The big city never sleeps. The big city will kill you.
Three little suburb fellas want to make their big city dream turn into a big city reality in da big city. With heads full of hope, hearts full of courage and mouths full of zingers, they set off to grab the big city by its big city dick, but the sun sets hard in the big city. Will they crack ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Sunday 11th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Don't miss this new hour, Doing Stuff, from one of Australia's most exciting young comedians; it is guaranteed to fix you.
Tom Ballard has performed at all three of the biggest Comedy Festivals in the world - the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Tom is co-host of the triple j breakfast show Tom and Alex. ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 6th March 2012 - Sunday 11th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
After a completely sold out season at Brisbane Comedy Festival 2011, Jason returns to Australia for his seventh consecutive year in 2012, with Brisbane Comedy Festival: Jason Byrne - People's Puppeteer.
Jason's show promises to be anarchy-packed and of acrobatic proportions, as the definitive clown of comedy pushes his riotous show to the edge. Jason's inspired, original brand of high-energy in ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 8th March 2012 - Saturday 10th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Brisbane Comedy Festival: CHP - The End of The World (And Other Things) - it's here. 2012. The year Earth supposedly faces its final curtain, and who better to help you deal with it than a group of ignorant youths? Primed with experience from masses of video games, iPhone apps, and Facebook pages, there is no one more qualified.
From the team who brought you the sold out Brisbane Comed ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Saturday 10th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Soul man Charles Bradley is making his way to Australia at the tail-end of summer to lay some Brooklyn soul vibes on music lovers across the country!
His recent album 'No Time For Dreamers' is the culmination of a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically laboured for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska - singing and performing in his spare time - before re-settling in his homet ...
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Brisbane Comedy Festival: Bart Freebairn - Underground Awesome Quest - it's underground! It's Awesome! It's a Quest! Have you got the moxie?
Having performed at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Woodford Folk Festival and The Adelaide Fringe festival, Bart is no stranger to making crowds of people laugh. His unique style of whimsical, absurd humour, grounded by some good old-fas ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
From five-star reviews in Edinburgh to sold-out shows in Johannesburg, the world is sitting up and taking notice of Dave Thornton.
If you know him from Network Ten's The Project, you should probably also know that Dave's day job is touring the world, telling jokes to people who pay to hear what he has to say. His easy going persona, honesty and turn of phrase make him not only a star on the ris ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
This is a show about women as wives. It's a surprisingly funny show given that dinner won't cook itself. Who wouldn't want a wife? They do things for you. If Hannah had a wife she would have written a better blurb and would be wearing smarter shoes. If that wife were Liz Hurley then she would have had a facelift and a spray tan too.
Hannah Wants A Wife is the brand new show from one of Austral ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Lose weight in your sleep! Build muscle while sitting on the toilet! Let's Zumba! (It's not about Zumba).
After bringing I Heart Bunnings to Brisbane Comedy Festival 2011, Harley is back with a high energy ride through body image, beauty, and television bullshit. A former fat kid, Breen's sick of being told he's not perfect. If you are too, get in line with the rest of the class! Let's Zu ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Comedian. Librarian . Cake Enthusiast. Adult?
Josh Earl, as seen on Spicks and Specks and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Allstars Gala is XXX (thirty, not dirty) and has crammed more into the last three years of his life than the first 27 combined. The boy has finally grown up, whether he wanted to or not
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"Four Stars - Cheekily honest and truly hilarious." - Herald Sun
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PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
A lethally funny, poignant hour of wit and British soul searching that examines Mark's disruptive identity theft in 2011.
Multi-award winning comedian Mark Watson, "a kind of unstoppably funny superhero", returns to Brisbane with his new show The Information (Times UK).
If you don't know already, come find out why his shows at the Montreal, Melbourne, Sydney and Edinburgh Festivals a ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Punk rock. New York. London. Brisbane?
In the late 1970's Brisbane was a conservative backwater - with a thriving punk rock underbelly. Bored teenager Ross Daniels stumbled into a netherworld of wild gigs, misfits and police violence - all while staying with his right wing, church-going grandparents.
Returning to the city where it all happened, Ross Daniels presents Punked - a first-hand ac ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Stephen Amos returns with a brand new show packed full of life observations and hilarious stories.
After the sell-out debut of The Best Medicine at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, Stephen is back in Australia with his special brand of melt-in-the-middle comedy to prove that laughter really is the best medicine.
Amos has charmed and entertained audiences all over the world with his easy, relaxed ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Sunday 18th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Long before appearing on television with The Project and Talkin' 'bout Your Generation, Charlie was touring internationally, winning awards and selling-out houses. Charlie returned to the stage last year with this cracker of a show.
He has been nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award (Edinburgh Fringe), the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show (Melbourne Comedy Festival) ...
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
In a powerful homage to her partner and mentor Serge Gainsbourg, the chanteuse, star of film and stage, style icon and darling of the French avant-garde, Jane Birkin, will give one special concert.
For more than a decade she was muse to the legendary French singer, songwriter and enfant terrible Gainsbourg. He was a cult hero in France and his death of a heart attack on March 2, 1991, warranted ...
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Brisbane Comedy Festival presents Andrew O'Neill - Alternative. The UK's foremost heavy-metal occultist vegan transvestite stand-up comedian returns to Australia (with his show Brisbane Comedy Festival: Andrew O'Neill - Alternative) due to three people on Facebook being very insistent.
Following another storming run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and having performed in every corner of the B ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Multi-award winner Asher Treleaven is back with a brand new show, Brisbane Comedy Festival: Asher Treleaven - Matador, following his debut at Brisbane Comedy Festival 2011.
Cerebral and challenging, inspiring and idiosyncratic, Matador stares down the subject of having to deal with other people's racism from the point of view of a middle class white guy.
Start with a man in slightly tight p ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Brisbane Comedy Festival: Deanne Smith - Livin' The Sweet Life - life's great when you're rich(er than most people on the planet).
Not only does DeAnne pay strangers to remove her body hair, she also has a guy drive her around town in a large, expensive vehicle (okay, it's a bus...). But still, this 2011 Barry Award Nominee's doing waaaay better than 1.7 billion people in pover ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Critically acclaimed American-born, Irish-bred megastar Des Bishop returns to Australia.
After a series of sold-out shows in 2010, Des Bishop tours Australia in 2012 with his brand new show "Des Bishop Likes to Bang", making it's Australian premiere at the Brisbane Comedy Festival.
'Edgy material snappy never sappy Bishop has judged this one beautifully' - The Age, Melbourne.
'Funny, erudit ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
A light-hearted look, as seen through a comedian's eyes, at the serious nature of being human in this modern age.
There are many types that make the world go around. There might even be some types that are stopping the world from going around. Humanity is a look at the world and the way that we live it through the eyes of Lindsay Webb - a comedian who has seen a lot of people in a lot of differe ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
A man is standing next to another man. They have nothing in common and nothing to speak of. Maybe they can talk about the weather.
Winner Best Comedy, Adelaide Fringe 2011.
Nominee Best Comedy, Edinburgh Fringe 2011.
Nominee Best Comedy, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2011.
"â¦a breathlessly inventive psycho-comedy that thrives off Simmons's warped whimsicalityâ¦a montage of elliptically ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Last year's season completely sold out, so probably best to buy a ticket to Tom Gleeson - Good One. Countless television appearances, radio shows and live performances aside, it's Tom's honest and non-self-deprecating take on everyday life and his relationships which make him a standup comedian amongst comics.
He's toured the globe, sold out houses and made a name for himself as a sure bet wher ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Your newest little buddy is making his Brisbane debut with an all-new show about cleaning out his childhood home and finding love, sickness and Space Jam Tazos in Brisbane Comedy Festival: Tommy Dassalo - Pipsqueak.
Tommy Dassalo has been nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, written for television shows like Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation and The ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
For world class comedy that is intelligent, current and engaging, you can't look past Wil Anderson. Widely regarded as the best standup comedian in this country, when Wil's not hosting ABC television's Gruen Transfer or Gruen Planet, he's touring his live shows both here and abroad. This is his 17th show and it's bound to be a ripper.
Winner People's Choice Award, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2010 ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Brisbane Comedy Festival: The Best of Comedy - Malaysia With Harith Iskander is a showcase of the very best of the newest addition to the global comedy scene - Malaysia! Believe it, this exciting young country is the epicentre of a new wave of global, Asian standup comedy, and its movers and shakers are live in Brisbane.
Featuring the godfather of Malaysian comedy, Harith Iskander, sitcom star ...
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Now in its seventeenth year (almost of age!) Class Clowns is Melbourne International Comedy Festival's one-of-a-kind, national comedy competition for teens in secondary schools around the country. Alumni include Josh Thomas (Talkin' Bout Your Generation), Triple J's Tom Ballard and comedian Joel Creasey.
The Class Clowns competition aims to encourage those cheeky monkeys from Y ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 21st March 2012 - Sunday 25th March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
After nearly three years overseas, the award-wining Kate Miller-Heidke returns to home soil for a series of live and acoustic shows.
Kate Miller-Heidke visits Brisbane Powerhouse on her tour of some of Australia's finest and most intimate venues and theatres including the Sydney Opera House, the Famous Spiegeltent in Melbourne and the Adelaide Fringe Festival. For this series of revealing and ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 30th March 2012 - Saturday 31st March 2012
119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland 4005, Australia
Get some fire in your belly as a diverse set of some of Brisbane's finest songwriters come together to celebrate that most powerful of musical moments - the protest song - with Children of The Revolution.
From folk music to rock and hip-hop, songwriters have for centuries used music to take a stand, and inspire others in the process. And this unique night will carry on that tradition as some of ...
