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MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL FAVOURITE TO PERFORM FREE COMEDY GIG

Melbourne International Comedy Festival favourite Claire Hooper (The Sideshow, Rove Live, Stand Up! Australia) will headline the free comedy program Livewired, at Brisbane Powerhouse on Sunday 3 February, 2008.

CHRIS PICKERING LAUNCHES NEW ALBUM AT FREE GIG

Multi-award winning singer songwriter Chris Pickering will launch his new album, Excuses Excuses, when the free live music program, Live Spark, recommences at Brisbane Powerhouse on Sunday 3 February, 2008.

Are You Game to Face Your Shadows?

By popular demand, QSE revisit their Matilda Award-winning production of Metamorphoses, featuring selections from Tales From Ovid by Ted Hughes.

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED JAZZ PRODIGY VISITS AUSTRALIA FOR FIRST TIME

Hailed by critics as a female Frank Sinatra, winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz vocal competition Gretchen Parlato will perform at Brisbane Powerhouse on Wednesday 6 February, 2008.

NEW FESTIVAL TO TEST DRIVE A NEW GENERATION OF MUSICAL PRACTICE

International Chamber Music masters, The Brodsky Quartet will lead an all star line-up of musical ensembles performing at Brisbane Powerhouse as part of the Restrung: A New Chamber Music Festival from 28 February to 2 March, 2008.

QUEER FILM LOOKING FOR A NEW GENERATION OF FILM MAKERS

Brisbane Queer Film Festival Call for Entries: Queensland’s premier queer film festival is searching for new talent in short film for the 2008 Brisbane Queer Film Festival from 22 – 29 May at Brisbane Powerhouse.

BITE-SIZE THEATRE TO BE SERVED TO HUNGRY AUDIENCES

Audiences hungry for a quick theatre fix are in for a treat when Brisbane Powerhouse and Playing Australia present Shorter+Sweeter for the first time in Brisbane at the Visy Theatre from 13 – 17 May.

MASTER PUPPETRY TO TELL AGE-OLD TALE

Be transported to a world where visual (multimedia) and performing arts converge. An Adelaide Festival hit in 2003, Woyzeck on the Highveld by Handspring Puppet Company is back in 2008 for a season at Brisbane Powerhouse.

A LOVE STORY UNLIKE ANY OTHER

Following sold out seasons in Sydney and a list of accolades including the 2007 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for Best Play; and the 2007 Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) for Best Play; Tommy Murphy’s award winning adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s iconic memoir, Holding the Man comes to Brisbane Powerhouse.

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT

The everyday absurdities of life, human behaviour and the human condition take the spotlight when Netherlands Theatre Company Kassys present the incredibly tender but comical Kommer.