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A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns to QPAC


by Stephi Wild - November 21, 2024

This December, the much-loved stage spectacle, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by Shake & Stir Theatre Co, will return once again to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC) Playhouse....

CIRQUE ALICE Comes to QPAC in April 2025


by Stephi Wild - November 18, 2024

Queensland Performing Arts Centre has announced the world premiere season of Cirque Alice, an epic new show from the creators of the global smash hit The Illusionists that will transform the Concert Hall into a Wonderland....

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS Returns to QPAC This Holiday Season


by Stephi Wild - November 13, 2024

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s festive celebration, Spirit of Christmas, will return to the iconic Concert Hall this holiday season. Learn more about the event here!...

CIRCUS IN A TEA CUP Comes to QPAC


by Stephi Wild - October 29, 2024

Following its inaugural 2021 season at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), Vulcana Circus’ empowering Circus in a Tea Cup will return from 5 to 7 December 2024....

THE WHARF REVUE Will Bring its Final Show to QPAC


by Stephi Wild - October 22, 2024

The Wharf Revue will be returning to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC) Playhouse from 11 to 16 February 2025 for its last show – ever!...

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS Comes to QPAC Next Year


by Stephi Wild - October 03, 2024

The breakout Australian hit play The Dictionary of Lost Words, based on Pip Williams’ award-winning novel of the same name, will be performed in Brisbane for the first time when it comes to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC) Playhouse from 26 April to 10 May 2025....

Cat Power Will Perform Bob Dylan at QPAC


by Stephi Wild - October 01, 2024

The songs of Bob Dylan will echo through Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC)'s Concert Hall when the great Cat Power performs Dylan’s fabled and transformative 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert set on Wednesday 12 March 2025....

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Concert Production Comes to QPAC in December


by Stephi Wild - September 17, 2024

An in-concert production of the much-loved Gilbert and Sullivan classic, The Pirates of Penzance, will storm the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC) Concert Hall from 5 to 8 December 2024for six shows only....

esperanza spalding Kicks Off Return Tour of Australia at QPAC


by Josh Sharpe - August 28, 2024

Five-time GRAMMY Award-winning vocalist, bass player and composer esperanza spalding will launch her highly anticipated return tour of Australia in Brisbane at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC) Concert Hall for a very special one-night-only performance on 22 October 2024....

Tickets on Sale For PETER AND THE STARCATCHER in Brisbane


by Stephi Wild - June 28, 2024

Broadway’s 5-time Tony Award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher is now on sale in Brisbane and Adelaide. This Broadway smash hit will premiere October 2024 at Canberra Theatre Centre, ahead of a national tour extending into 2025....

Past Shows

The Ring Cycle
The Ring Cycle
12/1 - 12/23/2023


We’re bringing a new production of the Ring Cycle to Brisbane in 2023, exclusive to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Come on an exhilarating adventure ...

Aida
Aida
12/6 - 12/20/2023


PRESENTED BY OPERA AUSTRALIA & OPERA QUEENSLAND This is a story of a love so strong it defies enemy lines. This is a story of ...

Mamma Mia!
8/6 - 8/24/2023


MAMMA MIA! is the ultimate feel–good show that has audiences coming back again and again to relive the thrill. Now it's your turn to have ...

Moulin Rouge! The Musical
6/7 - 7/27/2023


Pop the champagne, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of 10 Tony Awards® — including Best Musical! Enter a world of splendor and romance, ...

Hamilton
1/27 - 4/2/2023


Returning by popular demand for its fourth year, Riverside Theatres presents Maeve Marsdens crowd favourite Queerstories, for one night only, on Saturday 12th February. Queerstories ...

Weird Al Yankovic
3/20 - 3/21/2023


Best known for his parody hits “Like A Surgeon,” “Polka Face,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Amish Paradise,” “Fat,” “Eat It” and “The Saga Begins,” Weird Al ...

Choir Boy
3/15 - 3/18/2023

QSO Magnificent Piano
3/17 - 3/18/2023

Breaking the Castle
Breaking the Castle
2/24 - 3/4/2023


I tried dying and it didn’t work… I might as well try living now. Struggling actor David can’t get enough, of anything. Alcohol, drugs, women, ...

SIX
12/30 - 2/19/2023


book: Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss; lyrics: Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss; music: Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss; dir: Jaime Armitage, Lucy Moss....

To Barbra With Love
2/3 - 2/4/2023

Mary Poppins
12/21 - 1/15/2023


Mary Poppins is bringing its own brand of Broadway magic to theaters across the country, which has Variety raving, “This is the rare touring production ...

SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW
1/11 - 1/15/2023


One of Scotland's greatest acting exports, Tony Award-winner Alan Cumming is a star on both sides of the Atlantic, a conqueror of the stage and ...


Calling all nuns and goat herders -- get out your brown paper packages tied up with string, or any other favorite things, and get ready ...

Aida
11/11

THE GRUFFALO
10/12 - 10/16/2021

Ishmael
9/3 - 9/18/2021


Eli Bell’s childhood in the outer Brisbane suburbs is far from the idyllic 1980s haze some kids would remember. His alcoholic dad has shot through, ...

Ishmeal
8/30 - 9/11/2021


A dead earth A climate refugee A voyage to the outer solar system On the resource-depleted earth of a not so distant future, a young ...

World of Musicals
8/22 - 8/24/2021


The Musical Gala with an International cast brings London’s West End and New York’s Broadway return to New Zealand with a brand-new show. The World ...


The international smash hit Harry Potter parody returns for a third season due to popular demand. Olivier Award nominee and Best Of Las Vegas Award ...

2021-07-22
7/22


Australian politics are in peril and there’s only one man who can save it. Luckily a window has opened up in his very busy schedule. ...

Animal Farm
6/7 - 6/26/2021


George Orwell’s powerfully potent and profoundly popular allegory returns in a multi-award winning theatre production – served fast, furious and full of grunt. Revolution has ...

Chess The Musical
6/8 - 6/10/2021


Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Paulini, Rob Mills, Alexander Lewis and Mark Furze star in a gripping concert-style production of Chess The Musical touring Australia. With music by ...


The Umbilicals take the energy of live performance and the spectacle of cinema and smashes them together into a new show performed simultaneously on stage ...

Billy Elliot the Musical
7/1 - 7/31/2020


Billy Elliot the Musical has its long awaited Brisbane premiere in July 2020 as part of the 10th Anniversary Tour. Featuring music by the legendary ...


Roald Dahl’s delicious tale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is coming to Brisbane! It’s a delectable treat featuring songs from the original film, including “Pure ...

The Book of Mormon
1/3 - 1/19/2020


Due to overwhelming demand The Book of Mormon returns to Brisbane! With many performances now sold out, the “funniest musical of all time” (Entertainment Weekly) ...

Chicago
11/2 - 11/24/2019


Don’t miss CHICAGO coming to QPAC this November! Starring Natalie Bassingthwaighte as Roxie Hart, Alinta Chidzey as Velma Kelly and Casey Donovan as Matron ‘Mama’ ...

An Intimate Evening with Faith Prince


Tony Award winning Broadway star Faith Prince returns to Australia for two intimate cabaret performances at QPAC.Faith Prince has been dazzling audiences since winning the ...


Unemployable. Undateable. Unstoppable! Everyone is talking about Muriel! One of the most loved and hilarious Aussie films of all time comes to life on stage ...

School of Rock
7/12 - 7/31/2019


Andrew Lloyd Webber, the man who brought rock and romance to Broadway, is back with a new heart-stirring hit. School of Rock is a New ...

The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon
3/16 - 5/12/2019

Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
2/9 - 3/2/2019


The tragedy of a typical American - a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face: defeat and disillusionment. ...

Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys
1/2 - 1/27/2019


Jersey Boys takes you behind the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, a legendary group that rose from blue-collar New Jersey boys to ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/7 - 12/16/2018


A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...

North By Northwest
North By Northwest
11/27 - 12/9/2018


Adelaide Festival Centre presents Kay + McLean Productions' North by Northwest Adapted by Carolyn Burns, Directed by Simon Phillips Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller is ...

Prisilla Queen of the Desert
Prisilla Queen of the Desert
9/26 - 11/4/2018

Priscilla Queen of the Desert


Get ready to shake your groove thing as Australia’s most successful homegrown musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert rocks in to Brisbane September 2018. The ...

Jasper Jones
Jasper Jones
7/28 - 8/18/2018


The smash-hit stage adaptation of the classic Australian coming-of-age mystery. In the sizzling summer of 1965, a bookish 14 year-old boy flees from the boredom ...

Good Muslim Boy
Good Muslim Boy
7/12 - 7/28/2018


An irreverent but tender memoir of a father, a son and a question of faith What does it mean to be a good Muslim boy? ...

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical


Broadway Sensation, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opens at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC in July 2018 and you can now join the waitlist! Critics have ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone has an extraordinary brain, exceptional at math while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of ...

Rent
Rent
5/2


Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Rent rocks back to the stage in 2018! Featuring classic hits “Seasons of Love” and “Take ...

American Idiot
American Idiot
4/13 - 4/21/2018


Fresh from sell-out performances in 2017, Green Day’s explosive, award-winning Broadway phenomenon American Idiot returns to rock QPAC’s Playhouse from 13 April 2018! Winner of ...

Aladdin
Aladdin
2/20


From the producer of The Lion King, the beloved story of Aladdin comes to thrilling theatrical life in this bold new musical. The New York ...

Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
12/26 - 2/4/2018


The party of the year is coming to Brisbane this December! Over 60 million people all around the globe have fallen in love with the ...

The Rocky Horror Show


You can’t keep a good thing down – Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show is back! Craig McLachlan returns in his award-winning role as the ...

Absolutely Everybody Loves Broadway


Join award winning conductor and singer Jonathon Welch AM in the School of Hard Knocks first spectacular concert in Brisbane, featuring Australian Music Theatre and ...

Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy
2/5 - 3/1/2013


From 5 February 2013, for 3 weeks only, the Playhouse Theatre, QPAC will light up with the extraordinary talents of the legendary five-time Tony Award® ...

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