After being shut down since March, several major Brisbane venues and performing arts companies are about to get shows back on for live audiences, as Queensland's coronavirus restrictions continue to ease.
When the Brisbane Powerhouse reopens later this month, it will have been 131 days since it opened a show.La Boite spent tens of thousands during lockdown to create new shows later this yearCOVID-19 has kept arts and live performance venues shuttered since March.
Brisbane Powerhouse artistic director Kris Stewart said they would open for 100-person capacity cabaret-style shows with audiences sitting with their group at well-spaced tables. "We need to remain physically distanced but we've got to socially connect again ... we need to do shows to people and get in front of audiences.""To perform in our home town as a treat at the best of times," he said.
"It's really an opportunity for people to come together with their neighbours, sit out on their driveway and be entertained by a fantastic group of musicians," she said. "What we're hoping for is over the course of the next three or four months, artists are going to start building the seeds of new shows," she said."We'll open up the venue at the end of the year for a sort of celebration of those new ideas and what it looks to be in a world post-COVID.
Arts Queensland is also supporting the reopening of Gold Coast's HOTA, Empire Theatre in Toowoomba, the Ipswich Civic Centre, Cairns Performing Arts Centre and Cairns' Tanks Arts Centre.
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