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Brisbane-based actor Maddison Burridge.

Brisbane’s new stage star fights pride, prejudice ... and teenage hecklers

A gutsy new actor is dominating the local stage this year. But her success has come with hard lessons.

  • Nick Dent

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Sting in Amsterdam where the latest version of his musical premiered in 2025.

Another music great to join Sting onstage at the Glasshouse

The cast of Sting’s original musical, which has its southern hemisphere premiere at Brisbane’s new theatre, just got starrier.

  • Nick Dent
Sets and characters from Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock will feature in the exhibition.

It’s time to light the lights: World-first Muppets exhibition coming to Brisbane

The teams who brought Kermit, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster and a host of Fraggles and goblins to the world will let GOMA visitors peek behind the scenes.

  • Nick Dent
Shiv Palekar as Jay Gatsby and Jess Vickers as Daisy Buchanan in a new stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

An explosion of jazz-era decadence, this Gatsby is one wild party, old sport

Queensland Theatre’s 2026 curtain-raiser is a sumptuous showcase of acting, design and music. Baz who?

  • Nick Dent
Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha.

Brisbane outranks Sydney, Melbourne as world’s most family-friendly city

Brisbane’s numerous green spaces and relative safety saw it take out the gong as Australia’s – and the world’s – best place to raise a family.

  • Brittney Deguara
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi surprised moviegoers in Brisbane on Valentine’s Day by showing up to several screenings of “Wuthering Heights” in their home state.

Brisbane moviegoers get star-studded Valentine’s Day surprise

Queensland superstars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi delighted cinemagoers when they popped in during a “Wuthering” whirlwind across the city.

  • Brittney Deguara
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Renee Woolnough left her job in corrections to open up Brisbane’s first romance bookshop.

Why Renee walked away from her job to open Brisbane’s first romance bookshop

“It was getting too much and I was burning out and I’m like, ‘my life is too short’.”

  • Dominique Tassell
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights.

Swoon-worthy shows, intimate dinners and other things to do on Valentine’s Day in Brisbane

From Robbie and Elordi on the moors to a festival dedicated to love, there’s plenty to do around town with a partner or friend on February 14.

  • Nick Dent
Asian Aunties - Himali Ratnayake and Janette McBride - Brisbane based improvised comedy duo appearing in the BrisAsia festival.

Festival brings food, fireworks and brutal advice from ‘Asian Aunties’

“This is therapy for us,” say stars of the BrisAsia Comedy Gala, part of the city’s Year of the Horse celebrations.

  • Nick Dent
Macey Bennett and Sian Roach, highland dancers in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo on the tarmac at Brisbane International Airport, February 6, 2026.

Edinburgh Tattoo performers descend on Brisbane for a tartan takeover

More than 800 international musicians and dancers will join 300 local performers to deliver a bonnie boost of $39 million to Brisbane.

  • Nick Dent