Review: West Side Story is the musical Covid couldn’t stop
Phil Brown couldn’t help but feel a bit guilty as he revelled in one of the greatest musicals ever written. Read his review of this modern-day Romeo and Juliet retelling.
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Van Gogh comes alive in Brisbane with multi-sensory experience
If you’ve ever wanted to walk into one of Vincent van Gogh’s famous sunflower paintings now’s your chance with an amazing immersive art experience coming to Brisbane.
Major Brisbane Festival attraction cancelled
It was supposed to be a transformative experience and a seminal part of Brisbane Festival’s BOQ Festival Garden on the Rainforest Green at South Bank but Circa’s Silver City has fallen victim to Covid and manufacturing problems in Europe.
The play that could spell the end of theatre as we know it
All you really need for a great night out at the theatre is one actor and a chair but Suzie Miller’s powerful play about sexual assault and the law doesn’t need any frills
Vote now: $10k on the line for Qld’s best book
There’s plenty of variety on offer in The Courier-Mail’s search for Best Book of the Year 2021 – with $10,000 on the line for the talented nominees. VOTE NOW
Review: The moment this Creative Generation won me over
Queensland’s largest youth performance production isn’t usually something Arts Editor Phil Brown would attend. But he’s very glad he did.
Two weddings, no funeral and a coke-sniffing count
This new production has everything you could want from a rom-com, including more relationship tangles than a Richard Curtis film. Check out our review.
Putting the Brisbane back into Brisbane Festival
Brisbane Festival has never been more local and with the return of Street Serenades and Brisbane’s Art Boat, the city is being celebrated like never before with 139 productions in a staggering 223 locations.
Little Brisbane opera film storms Cannes
It was a hit at the Brisbane International Film Festival and now a film that goes behind the scenes of a city opera program is charming crowds in a sidebar event of the Cannes Film Festival.
Is this the Outback’s fanciest tent?
Phil Brown doesn’t like camping, but this luxurious five-star tent – complete with airconditioning, a bathtub and beautiful bed linen – won him over.
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