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Showers are on the forecast for Brisbane as the 'splash-hit' West End stage production SINGIN' IN THE RAIN opens today at Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC) Lyric Theatre running until 30 October, in a strictly limited season.

Black Swan State Theatre Company & Queensland Theatre will next month present a WA Premiere of Moliere's Tartuffe - The Hypocrite in a new version by Justin Fleming from Sat 22 October to Sunday 6 November in the Heath Ledger Theatre at State Theatre Centre of WA.

MUSIC BY THE SEA (http://www.musicbythesea.com.au) Presents Ian Cooper (violin) Ambre Hammond (piano) Saturday, 1st October, 7:30pm, Sandgate Town Hall

One of Australia's leading performers, Rachael Beck, returns to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) this time with her autobiographical cabaret show, Rachael Beck - This Girl, in the Cremorne Theatre for two shows only on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October 2016 Sharing the same name as her first solo album, Rachael Beck - This Girl, was created in 2014 for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and takes audiences on an intimate journey through Beck's life and career, featuring stories and songs from her album and her major career roles.One of Australia's leading performers, Rachael Beck, returns to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) this time with her autobiographical cabaret show, Rachael Beck - This Girl, in the Cremorne Theatre for two shows only on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October 2016.

After sell-outseasons in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and New York City, Kurt comes home to Queensland with his awesome brand of cabaret that has audiences and critics smiling from ear to ear.

Updated March 2021. Theatre in Australia has always been important, and it all begins in the schools! Below, BroadwayWorld rounds up the top performing arts schools in Brisbane. Check out the list!

Australia's biggest Indian festival, Confluence Festival of India, brings two works Sonam Kalra and The Sufi Gospel Project and Sriyah by Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in 2016.

Direct from the UK, Backstage in Biscuit Land arrives at the Cremorne Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre(QPAC), from 19 to 23 October 2016.

Australians will be tempted with an Extension Program of events and activations specially curated for the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) 2016 International Series presentation of Ballet Preljocaj's Snow White. The Extension Program will kick off from 22 August 2016 at select city sites in Brisbane and will continue throughout the season from 2 to 11 September 2016 at QPAC.

To celebrate the 25-year anniversary of her platinum release String of Pearls, iconic Australian singer-songwriter Deborah Conway will perform the entire album as well as launch her new album, Everybody's Begging, with long-time collaborator Willy Zygier, in two special concerts at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), on 9 September 2016, with a second concert now added on 10 September due to popular demand.

?The smash-hit show, At Last - The Etta James Story, returns to the Concert Hall, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Saturday 19 November 2016, starring the sensational Vika Bull.

The Flinders Quartet will perform at Sandgate Town Hall as part of Music By The Sea at 7:30pm on 6 August 2016.

Flinders Quartet is easily recognisable as one of Australia's most loved chamber music ensembles. A quartet for the 21st century, FQ continues it's second decade with acknowledged musical skill and maturity. The group's dynamic and stirring performances of a full spectrum of repertoire have audiences and critics articulating their esteem, and the quartet is now a highly respected force in Australian chamber music.

The ladies are back Brisbane! From Thursday 3 to Saturday 12 November the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts will be abuzz when Women in Voice hit the performance space.

The excitement is building for the Brisbane season of the splash-hit West End stage production SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, opening from 22 September 2016 at Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC) Lyric Theatre.

The Flinders Quartet will perform at Sandgate Town Hall as part of Music By The Sea at 7:30pm on 6 August 2016.

Flinders Quartet is easily recognisable as one of Australia's most loved chamber music ensembles. A quartet for the 21st century, FQ continues it's second decade with acknowledged musical skill and maturity. The group's dynamic and stirring performances of a full spectrum of repertoire have audiences and critics articulating their esteem, and the quartet is now a highly respected force in Australian chamber music.

The Australian Ballet's most ambitious production ever staged is coming to Brisbane: David McAllister's The Sleeping Beauty announced for 2017

For Acacia's Music By The Sea concert 'The Harp & The Harpoon', they will perform Beethoven's famous 'Harp' String Quartet in Eb Op 74 (nicknamed for the arpeggiated pizzicato passages in the first movement) alongside two compositions that reflect Australia's unique landscape.

Straight from filming the second series of The Family Law, rising television star Kimie Tsukakoshi returns to Brisbane to debut an electric new performance work HANAKO. 

For Acacia's Music By The Sea concert 'The Harp & The Harpoon', they will perform Beethoven's famous 'Harp' String Quartet in Eb Op 74 (nicknamed for the arpeggiated pizzicato passages in the first movement) alongside two compositions that reflect Australia's unique landscape.

Green Jam, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) FREE live music program continues with a new line up from 1 July until 23 December 2016 (inclusive) every Friday evening, 5.30pm to 7.30pm on the Melbourne Street Green.

Internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble and 'rock stars' of Renaissance vocal music, The Tallis Scholars will return to Queensland Performing Art Centre's (QPAC's) Concert Hall, for a one night only performance Sunday 30 October 2016.

Akmal returns to Brisbane because he owes a lot of money and the debt collectors have promised that if payment isn't made they will break his legs, which he needs to perform stand-up comedy successfully!

Today Brisbane Writers Festival will present the 2016 Inspire Festival - this year at Brisbane Powerhouse.