Queensland Performing Arts Centre

PRAMKICKER

Jul 1 – Jul 4, 2026

PRAMKICKER, written by English playwright Sadie Hasler, is a two-hander starring Sarah Ann McLeod and Sarah Ogden — the co-founders of Brisbane-based feminist theatre collective...

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Jun 29 – Jan 26, 2025

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, the acclaimed rock musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, will be performed at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC starting June 29,...

Mamma Mia!

Aug 6 – Aug 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

Jun 7 – Jul 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,...

Rolling on the Floor Laughing

Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2023

Night of the Nerds

Mar 25

Queerstories

Mar 25

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

Mar 20 – Mar 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

Mar 15 – Mar 18, 2023

QSO Magnificent Piano

Mar 17 – Mar 18, 2023

Cirque Mother Africa

Mar 15

Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe

Aug 30 – Sep 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

Aug 30 – Sep 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...

Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff

Aug 3 – Aug 8, 2021

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...

Animal Farm

Jun 7 – Jun 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...

The Umbilical Brothers: The Distraction

Apr 27 – May 2, 2021

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...

Otello

Oct 24 – Nov 2, 2013

Celebrating the Verdi Bicentenary, Johannes Fritzsch, Chief Conductor of Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Graz Opera, will make his long-awaited Opera Queensland theatre debut in a...

Tequila Mockingbird

Aug 21 – Sep 7, 2013

The creative powerhouse behind the smash hit, sell out productions Animal Farm and 1984 return in 2013 with a contemporary retelling of one of literatures...

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange

May 28 – Jun 9, 2013

To mark the 50th anniversary of Anthony Burgess' literary cult masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange will tour Australia in a high octane, muscular and arresting production....

The Bright Stream

Jun 7 – Jun 9, 2013

In 1935, Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century, wrote an original score for a ballet called The Bright Stream....

Le Corsaire

May 30 – Jun 5, 2013

Inspired by Lord Byron’s epic poem, The Corsair, which sold ten thousand copies on the first day of publication, this three-act ballet was first performed...

Animal Farm

May 15 – May 25, 2013

Animal Farm, one of the most controversial and studied political commentaries returns to Brisbane in a multi-award winning, physical theatre production. Playing for a strictly...

Hot Shoe Shuffle

May 2 – May 19, 2013

The seven Tap Brothers (Spring, Slap, Buck, Wing, Tip, Tap and Slide) learn of the death of their long-absent father, who has apparently left them...

Hot Shoe Shuffle

May 4

It's been almost twenty years since Hot Shoe Shuffle first wowed audiences around the world. It's song and dance at its very best and most...

Next to Normal

Apr 18 – May 4, 2013

From the creative team behind Oscar Theatre Company's sellout production of Spring Awakening comes the Queensland premiere of Broadway's Next to Normal. Winner of three...

Swan Lake

Feb 22 – Mar 2, 2013

Returning to Tchaikovsky’s original score for inspiration, this classical Swan Lake is steeped in late 19th-century romanticism and based on ancient myth. Princess Odette, transformed...

Once Upon a Time

Feb 26

This fully staged performance by The Australian Ballet of one act from Stephen Baynes' Swan Lake will be narrated by one of the characters and...