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An evocative sound installation comprising multiple musical pieces will transform the visitor experience in the National Museum of Australia's Garden of Australian Dreams.  

Gold Coast arts organisation Everybody NOW! has created the Storyteller-In-Residence Project – a five-part mini documentary style film series, diving into the lives of five marvelous humans from across South East Queensland, who manifest movement in their lives through roller skating, music, poetry or dance.

This April, theatergoers are invited to uncover a rich tapestry of deeply layered audacious themes, during the premiere season of The Stoned Ape, an all-new psycho-dramatic tragicomedy coming to the newly renovated Bondi Pavilion Theatre, from 2-13 April.

From the team that brought Van Gogh Alive to Australia, Grande Experiences and Andrew Kay present Monet in Paris, a multi-sensory experience celebrating Claude Monet and the world's most renowned artists of the      Impressionist era.

The global musical phenomenon MAMMA MIA! The Musical will be dancing its way into Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne during 2023. Featuring 22 of ABBA's greatest hits, including Dancing Queen, Voulez Vous, S.O.S and Take a Chance On Me, the iconic songs you know and love are guaranteed to have audiences dancing in the aisles when the tour kicks off at Sydney Lyric from May 24, then onto QPAC's Lyric Theatre in Brisbane from August 6 and Melbourne's Princess Theatre from October 4.

Fans of the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning creator of HAMILTON, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the multi-award winning musical are invited to be 'in the room where it happens' when Leigh Sales will host a very special event at The Lyric Theatre, QPAC on March 5. 

British chef Marco Pierre White returns to Australia in May for his first tour of live-on-stage theatre shows. MARCO PIERRE WHITE – OUT OF THE KITCHEN will take place in Brisbane at the Great Hall, BCEC on 23 May, in Sydney on 25 May at the State Theatre, and at Melbourne's Hamer Hall on 30 May. Tickets are on sale to the General Public from Friday 17 February, with pre-sales from today.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) will present The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show by CDP Kids from 5 to 9 April in the Playhouse. 

Following a sell-out season last November, the 70th Anniversary Australian tour of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap will return to Brisbane for a short season from 26 May at the Playhouse, QPAC. The national tour of the world's longest-running play has played to capacity audiences since it opened in Sydney last October.

Dead Puppet Society and Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) have announced the return of acclaimed production Ishmael from 19 to 27 May 2023 in the Cremorne Theatre.

The Australian tour of SIX the Musical, the Tony Award-winning electrifying musical phenomenon by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, has once again broken box office records, this time becoming the highest selling show ever to play at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) Playhouse.

The prestigious Matilda Awards, Queensland's premier awards for performing arts, honours 2022's brightest and boldest artists across a range of new and refreshed categories.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has announced Dancenorth Australia's season of the illuminating and visceral RED from 29 March to 1 April 2023 in the Playhouse.  

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has announced the moving and defying Glass Child by The Farm from Wednesday, 31 May to Friday, 2 June 2023 in the Cremorne Theatre. 

Queensland Performing Arts Centre has announced that the acclaimed Brodsky Quartet will return to the Concert Hall, on 2 May 2023, as part of a 50th anniversary global tour. 

Australia's favourite leading man, Ainsley Melham, is joining the star-studded cast of To Barbra, With Love in Canberra. The highly successful celebration of the inimitable Barbra Streisand, will play in Canberra on Friday 10 February and Saturday 11 February following concerts in Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, with local symphony orchestras.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has announced the side-splittingly funny R.O.F.L (Rolling On The Floor Laughing) by comedic duo The Listies from Tuesday 28 March to Wednesday 5 April 2023 in the Cremorne Theatre. 

Choir Boy is coming to Queensland Performing Arts Center next month, with performances running from March 15th through March 18th.

The producers of the Tony, Grammy, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning musical HAMILTON have confirmed the full company today for the Brisbane season, opening at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC (Queensland Performing Arts Centre), beginning January 27, 2023.

Ensemble Q has announced its 2023 concert season at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), delivering an exciting new series that will take audiences on a musical, visual, and immersive journey. 

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in association with Oombarra Productions have announced the Queensland premiere of Peter Cook's compelling and uplifting one-man play, Breaking the Castle, from 24 February to 4 March 2023 in the Cremorne Theatre. 

Global bestselling author and award-winning podcast host, Jay Shetty, has announced his first ever world tour, Jay Shetty: Love Rules, which will come to Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane in April 2023. In a 90-minute experience, Jay will take the audience on a journey of finding, keeping, and even letting go of love, including live meditations, experiments, and demonstrations.

The producers of HAMILTON have announced that the Australian production of the Tony, Grammy, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical must leave Australia following the conclusion of the Brisbane season in April 2023.

Riverside Theatres has announced the cast of National Theatre of Parramatta's (NTofP) Australian premiere season of Choir Boy, by the Academy Award winning writer of Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney. 

Super Fun Day is set to return to Brisbane in March 2023! Bringing together comedy and music in one unbelievably fun format, Super Fun Day has rounded up the best of both worlds with Dune Rats, FIDLAR (USA), Ruby Fields, Pale Waves (UK), Beach Bunny (USA), Ocean Grove, Patti Harrison (USA) and The Reytons (UK) leading the massive 2023 lineup.