Dopamine Land is a multisensory experience in Brisbane that combines media, technology and play in one place. It's an interactive experience made up of colourful installations that channel the limitless imagination of your inner child into reality. Take a break from your everyday life, have some fun, take some photos and boost your happy emotions!

Come on down to We call it Jazz in Brisbane! With a mix of carefully chosen classics and spontaneous improvisation, this feel-good live music performance takes you on a journey to the roots of this revolutionary genre.

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Brisbane.

In a first for the Queensland Cultural Centre, an artist-designed play sculpture in the form of an oversized 119 metre-long garden hose has been unveiled outside Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA).

Step into Prison Island, an interactive adventure where you and your team take on 35 thrilling challenge cells.

One of the world’s best team-based virtual reality experiences has finally come to Brisbane!

How do you feel on the first day of school? Or when you win a really hard game? What about when someone you love is upset?

Let's get quizzical… Welcome to Quiz Room Brisbane! Experience the thrill of a live TV quiz with spotlights, buzzers, and tons of action! Perfect for families, friends, and colleagues of all ages. Form your team (minimum 3 players) and be smarter and faster than the rest!

Step into the heart of a high-stakes trial with The Jury Experience in Brisbane.

The Jazz Room is hosting a night of blues music in Brisbane! Enjoy a curated selection of blues tunes reimagined by a talented live band. Get your tickets for The Jazz Room: Tribute to The Blues in Brisbane!

Enter a realm of sensory delight where an intimate setting invites you to break away from routine and relearn how to use your taste buds.

Following a successful debut in Madrid, discover 123Boom!, Brisbane's most exciting immersive gaming experience! Ready to put your skills to the test?

The Art of Banksy “Without Limits” Chapter Two makes its world premiere in Brisbane!

Moonlight Cinema, Australia’s favourite outdoor cinema, celebrates its 30th birthday season with The People’s Program; a nationwide vote to shape this season’s line-up.

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson invites us on an expansive multi-sensory journey to the edges of perception. Choose your path through a rocky, primordial landscape, navigate an optical puzzle, or envision the future form of our city.

Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty has arrived in Brisbane!

Award-winning stage spectacle – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – is returning to QPAC’s Playhouse this December.  A Christmas Carol is a magical, grand-in-scale production brimful of song, humour, love, and lashings of festive joy – perfect for the entire family. 

Step beyond reality and into another dimension with Sydney’s award-winning Immersive 3D collaborative experience—a mind-blowing adventure that fuses teamwork, technology, and total immersion. Get ready to live the impossible!

The ever-popular Broadway musical Annie will light up Sydney’s Capitol Theatre from March next year in an exciting new production directed by Karen Johnson Mortimer and produced by John Frost for Crossroads Live. Our review here.

Blanc de Blanc Encore brings a sparkling night of bold comedy, cabaret, and seductive spectacle to Brisbane. Expect high-energy performances, playful chaos, and an adults-only atmosphere that doesn’t hold back.

The cult Broadway and Hollywood sci‑fi smash musical Little Shop of Horrors is back – bigger, bolder, and hungrier than ever!

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget!

Inspired by Lionsgate’s worldwide blockbuster film franchise, Now You See Me Live is a stage illusion spectacular taking over QPAC this summer with an explosive mix of high-tech illusions, solo stunts and jaw-dropping spectacles. 

Disney Jr. Live On Tour: Let’s Play!” is set to enchant families across Australia this January and February with FIVE spectacular tour stops: Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth. This immersive concert experience will bring beloved Disney Jr. characters to the stage in an interactive musical adventure perfect for young fans and their families.

You’ve been called for jury duty. Step into a thrilling courtroom drama where the audience is the jury. Listen to testimonies, analyze evidence, and ultimately decide… guilty or not guilty?

Introduce your little ones to the magic of Storytime Ballet: The Nutcracker – a festive, interactive ballet for children aged 3+.

This enchanting candlelit sound bath meditation offers you the chance to relax and heal the mind, release tension, open blocked energy channels, and generate new vibrational frequencies. You'll leave feeling rejuvenated and ready to take the world by storm!

Step through the looking glass and onto the silver screen … Alice in Wonderland is a dazzling new reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, brought to life by Ballet Theatre Queensland, with bold original choreography and an all-new jazz-infused score. 

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings like never before with Candlelight: The Lord of the Rings in Brisbane.

Create an amazing mechanical sculpture at Sculptures and Sips in Brisbane, inspired by Australia’s native wildlife. Enjoy drinks, meet fellow creatives, and bring your handmade moving sculpture to life under expert guidance. Don’t miss it!

Experience the 40th Australian Anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical CATS, coming to QPAC in February 2026.

The ultimate family fun run returns this summer – get ready to dive into 2.5 million cubic feet of foam throughout the course of the 5K Foam Fest!

One of the world’s most spectacular and iconic live events, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo presented by RACQ, marches exclusively and for the first time ever into Brisbane, Queensland this February in celebration of its 75th anniversary.

Welcome to The Jazz Age: a fever dream of dizzying excess where love, lies and liquor are in hot supply. Late to this glittering party arrives Nick Carraway, a blow-in from the mid-West, who’s immediately drawn to the enigmatic playboy next door: Jay Gatsby.

Far beyond the outskirts of the big city, near a tiny town that nearly everyone forgot, lay a dry creek bed of no special significance.

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is set to thrill audiences in Brisbane, in the multiple Tony Award®-winning MJ the Musical.

In an Australian exclusive, 17-time Grammy Award winning artist Sting is set to perform in his musical, The Last Ship, at Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC) newest venue, Glasshouse Theatre from 9 April to 3 May 2026.

La Cenerentola (Cinderella) is a tale of heart and humour full of clever disguises, unlikely heroes, a midnight ball and the kindness of one very determined young woman.

The iconic story that made us laugh, cry, and fall in love with six extraordinary women is back — live on stage in a dazzling new Australian production. Written by Robert Harling, the timeless tale of STEEL MAGNOLIAS will come alive under the direction of Lee Lewis and a cast of six powerhouse actors.

The Drover’s Wife is a monumental new opera based on the play, novel and film by one of Australia’s leading artists, Leah Purcell AM. With a ravishing score by George Palmer AM performed live by Queensland Symphony Orchestra, this new version reveals the symphonic soul of Purcell’s modern classic in its most expansive telling yet.

Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes.

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, this fairytale opera tells the story of the luminous water nymph Rusalka.

Beneath the constellation of Bangarra’s creative and cultural legacy, experience a program of three powerful works: Keeping Grounded, Brown Boys, and Sheoak, which honour Bangarra’s past while looking to the future.

Be transported to the land of fantasy in Ballet Theatre Queensland’s highly acclaimed return season of Snow White.

A sumptuous theatrical ode to the mother of romantic comedies.

Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day.

Australia’s biggest ever musical comedy is coming back to Brisbane’s QPac!

The thrilling, internationally acclaimed Cirque du Soleil production KOOZA is coming exclusively to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in 2026 under the much-loved iconic Big Top, with tickets on sale from 10am Thursday 13 November 2025.

John Cranko interprets Shakespeare’s immortal text into a beloved classical ballet.

With her signature mystery and old-Hollywood glamour, burlesque queen Dita Von Teese is returning to QPAC in 2026 with her spectacular new world tour, Nocturnelle.

This “smart, laugh out loud funny” (Daily Telegraph) show features a string of pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and You’re So Vain.

Four decades since its Broadway premiere, Into the Woods has established itself as a beloved musical classic.  

Step inside the Hippodrome and into the world of The Greatest Showman as COME ALIVE! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular arrives in Australia from May 2026.

The global smash-hit phenomenon SIX the Musical is making its royal stage return to Brisbane’s QPac from January 2027.