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Join us at BMEC for a trip back in time to a 1940's radio studio for their evening programme. The night will feature live music from the 30's and 40s, as well as 2 radio plays: The Man in Black - A dark and eerie tale set during the first world war. As well as Errol Flynn's Middle Wicket - When struggling Australian actor, Alan Gillies, is invited to join the Hollywood Cricket Club he jumps at the chance to rub shoulders with Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier and Boris Karloff and, with a bit of luck, use the old boys’ network to get a role that isn’t an English butler.  What he doesn’t bargain on is becoming involved, along with his girlfriend Myrtle, in a real life spy story.  Or learning how to bowl a googly.

Hailed as NT lives most popular title. Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

Love Never Dies continues the story of The Phantom of the Opera. Featuring one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s finest musical scores performed by a 21 piece orchestra, a stunning cast of 36 including Ben Lewis and Anna O'Byrne, over 300 incredible costumes and a magnificent set illuminated by over 5000 dazzling light bulbs.

Join Amber Joy Poulton and sing along to your favourites. Just One Look, Silver Threads & Golden Needles Country Roads Take Me Home, If You’re Not In It For Love, That’ll Be The Day, Stand By Your Man, Banks Of The Ohio, Still The One, When Will I Be Loved, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, I Honestly Love You, & of course Man, I Feel Like A Woman! & maybe even a few Amber Joy Poulton songs.

David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an ‘enthralling’ (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, especially for the big screen. Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of Pi, Henry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal.

Banjo brilliantly intertwines the life events of Banjo Paterson through beautiful new arrangements of Coldplay's greatest hits, contemporary dance and his very own Verse.  From the hardship in 1880s rural Australia to his life in the city and back to the country, this beautifully portrayed story is all about the quest for happiness. Paterson’s beautiful verse – Clancy of the Overflow, As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue, Waltzing Matilda & The Man From Snowy River will blend with Clocks, Yellow, Fix You, Paradise, Viva La Vida and more. 

Celebrate 50 years of ABBA's iconic victory with Bjorn Again's Waterloo Anniversary Tour! Experience the magic of the Swedish superstars as the world's premier ABBA tribute band takes you on a journey through their timeless hits. From "Waterloo" to "Dancing Queen," immerse yourself in the unforgettable melodies and infectious energy that defined an era. With spot-on performances, dazzling costumes, and an authentic tribute to ABBA's glory, this show promises an evening of pure joy and nostalgia.

Join three of the Central West's most beloved artists, Smith & Jones, Great Aunt and Genni Kane as they celebrate International Women's Day with original songs and stories from the heart.

‘My Lyrical Life’ the book, contains 217 songs from the Mackay artist’s pen, recorded by himself, or by artists including Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English, plus autobiographical reflections from various phases of his long, colourful career. The live show sees the APRA, ARIA and multi-Golden Guitar Award winner showcase the lyrical element of his career, particularly the story songs that he wouldn’t normally do with his big band at a festival.

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar returns to its roots with this sensational performance filmed in the UK during the Live Arena Tour. An incredible cast including Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, Melanie Chisholm as Mary Magdalene, Chris Moyles as King Herod and Ben Forster as Jesus Christ, perform hit songs including I Don’t Know How to Love Him, Gethsemane, Heaven on Their Minds, Everything’s Alright, King Herod’s Song and Superstar in an exciting and contemporary interpretation.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and friends come to life on stage in a masterful theatrical experience for children 18 months+ and their adults.

Iconic British rock band, Pink Floyd left an indelible mark on the world, inspiring generations with their ground-breaking soundscapes and thought-provoking lyrics. 2025 marks the diamond anniversary of Pink Floyd's inception, and to honour this milestone every era of Pink Floyd's illustrious career will be celebrated in grand style in a brand new concert production by Adelaide’s own Echoes of Pink Floyd. 

Kate Miller-Heidke is an award-winning singer-songwriter who traverses the worlds of pop, folk, opera and musical theatre. She’s performed on stages as varied as Coachella, the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Eurovision Song Contest, the Sydney Opera House, TV’s The Voice, and the Roebuck Bay Hotel, Broome.   The Telling Tales Tour will be a celebration of songs old and new, of voice, storytelling, emotion, humour, and music that transports and transcends. Of discovering anew each night the transformative connection between the performer and the audience. Join us for this special opportunity to see Kate in an intimate, exposed, and revealing performance, accompanied by her long-term collaborator Keir Nuttall on guitar.

Captured live in 2011 from the National Theatre stage in London, this thrilling, sold-out production became an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.

Bringing the Stevie Spirit to Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre is Nikki Canale, that ex-Vegas American who channels Stevie! "With due respect, Nikki’s presence, energy, powerful vocal chops and capacity to channel the‘ Spirit of Stevie’ is unparalleled in the world of ‘Tribute Stevie's’ touring Australia and beyond.” Dreams is not only the closest that music lovers are ever likely to get to the  iconic band again, but they are an outstanding group of world-class musicians and performers in their own right, one of the most proficient and engaging tribute bands to grace Australian stages.

Based on the Academy Award nominated film, Billy Elliot the Musical has won the hearts of millions since it opened in London’s West End in 2005. Set in a northern mining town, against the background of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, Billy’s journey takes him out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class where he discovers a passion for dance that inspires his family and whole community and changes his life forever. The original creative team behind the film, including writer Lee Hall (book & lyrics), director Stephen Daldry, and choreographer, Peter Darling, is joined by music legend Elton John (music) to produce a funny, uplifting and spectacular theatrical experience that will stay with you forever.

Get ready for a spectacular night of Magic and Grand Illusion with one of Australia’s leading Illusionists, Anthony Street. The Star and producer of the stage phenomenon, Celtic Illusion will be touring his Grand Illusion show in 2024. Witness levitations, impossible vanishes, mentalism and a death-defying escape as Anthony pushes the boundaries of reality and distorts your senses. With his unique & edgy style performing one of the oldest of art forms, Anthony will enthral and astonish you, and keep you on the edge of your seat.

Are You Lonesome Tonight is Opera Queensland’s most ambitious regional tour in its 40-year history. Visiting more than 30 communities and travelling some 8,000 kilometres across Queensland in 2021, this show is coming now all the way to Bathurst.  With a cast of young Australian singers including  Gabrielle Diaz, Marcus Corowa  and  Jonathan Hickey,  Are You Lonesome Tonight  features arias and songs by composers such as Puccini, Verdi, Slim Dusty and Dolly Parton, to name just a few.

ARIA award-winning children’s entertainer, Emma Memma, is bringing her brand new show Dance Island Party to Bathurst in April 2025! After dancing in productions around Australia, France, India, Canada, China and New Zealand, Emma joined Australian children’s entertainment group, The Wiggles in 2010, becoming the first female Wiggle in the main line-up. Emma has recently completed her PhD at Macquarie University combining all her passions, focusing on the affective and artistic integrations of sign language, dance and film editing. Currently, Emma is touring the nation and abroad with her new children’s entertainment venture ‘Emma Memma’, winning the ARIA award for Best Children’s Album in 2023. ‘Emma Memma’ features Emma and Deaf dancer and artist, Elvin Lam (Elvin Melvin) highlighting visual language for pre-schoolers and their family network to give them the skills to communicate through sign and gesture

Graham’s tribute to legend Kenny Rogers, no gamble for fans Radio personality, Ray Hadley, believes that Graham Toole is “worthy of a broader audience,” & Frank Ifield gave him the international spur award in 2004. I love performing live, so the more shows the better, we hope to give our audience something they can sing along to, tap their feet & to smile about” he added. Growing up in chilly Oberon he got a taste of the limelight performing as a child at the Local eisteddfods and it brings back wonderful memories.

Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Following a box-office record-breaking run in cinemas in 2019, the one-woman show returns to cinemas to the big screen this summer. Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.

BMEC audiences are in for a treat when we welcome A Slightly Isolated Dog back to our venue in 2025! For those who came along to The Trojan War earlier in 2024 – you know that this company knows how to put on show! Five hilarious performers tell the terrifying (yet still exceptionally sexy) tale of Jekyll & Hyde. Thrilling, charming, shockingly good comedy, we make you laugh until it hurts. An 80 minute, guaranteed feel-good night, expect plenty of laughs in the company of your mates, and some of the sassiest performers in town. Meet the most delightfully evil man alive, Mr Hyde. This ridiculous rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, Jekyll and Hyde is retold by a team of charmingly ‘French’ performers with the help of the audience.

Bocelli & Brightman is a tribute to two of the greatest and most influential classical crossover artists of this generation. This Mega Concert is packed with hit songs like Memory, Nessun Dorma, Phantom of the Opera, Torna a surriento, Song to the moon, and The Prayer. Starring two of Australia’s vocal power houses - Soprano Clarissa Spata (Opera Australia/The Voice Australia) and Tenor Gaetano Bonfante (Opera Australia/ Operatunity Oz) come together to star in one of the most exciting shows to hit the stage, accompanied by Australia’s finest musicians led by Maestro Glenn Amer. 

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra comes to the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre for one night only, performing a concert of enchanting classical favourites led by Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey.  Music has an extraordinary power to inspire and delight. You will experience it all, from the magic of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Ravel’s playful Mother Goose, from Falla’s rousing The Three-Cornered Hat to the simple gift of Copland’s Appalachian Spring.   And feel your spirits soar on the wings of Vaughan Williams’ exquisite The Lark Ascending,  one of the best-loved pieces of music ever written, expertly performed by Associate Concertmaster Alexandra Osborne as violin soloist.  

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to the Met this season. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.

Ross Wilson is hitting the road with his all-star band The Peaceniks to celebrate over 50 Years of Hits including all the Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock favourites you’d expect along with the latest offering from an almost 6-decade career, tracks from his latest EP on Bloodlines Records, She’s Stuck On Facebook All The Time, and everything in between. From Daddy Cool to Mondo Rock and as a solo artist with no less than 26 ARIA Top 40 hits to his credit as a singer, songwriter and producer, Ross Wilson is one of Australia’s most awarded, respected, and well-known artists! From the legendary band Daddy Cool whose number one anthem Eagle Rock and debut album Daddy Who? smashed all previous sales records in Australia an astounding 50 years ago in 1971, to the 1977 formation of Mondo Rock, delivering 80’s hits Cool World, State of The Heart, Chemistry, No Time, and Come Said The Boy and into the 21st century as a solo performer, Wilson has never been out of the limelight.

The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase tour will be tearing up the freeways of Australia to bring the best of the 2025 Festival to Bathurst!  Expertly curated and lovingly presented, the Showcase will feature some of the Festival’s hottest acts live on stage for an incredible two hours of hard-hitting laughter.  Boasting a line-up of veteran favourites and some of the freshest emerging talents, this jam-packed night of pure entertainment will leave you sore from belly laughs!

The Robertson Brothers are thrilled to be returning with their new heart-warming and uplifting 1960’s Variety TV Show!  Geoff and Ben Robertson are back as your charming and cheeky hosts for this nostalgic night of entertainment as they pay tribute to the musical giants of the 1960’s – The Beatles, Petula Clark, Del Shannon, Beach Boys, The Hollies, Bee Gees and the Everly Brothers.   Variety TV Show fans will be excited to know the multi-talented Simon Brook McLachlan (from the Original Australian cast of Jersey Boys) will return in 2025 to thrill us with his very special tribute to Del Shannon. Also joining the Variety show this year is the amazing Cosima De Vito (Australian Idol) with her incredible tribute to Petula Clark.

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL is an exciting and memory riddled show presented by Bob McKinnon. From television shows including Johnny O’Keefe’s SIX O’CLOCK ROCK and Brian Henderson’s BANDSTAND, so many talented performers and recording stars were born. This is not a tribute concert … this is the real deal. In THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL , audiences will re-live all the FABULOUS ORIGINAL HITS from the HITMAKERS themselves - LITTLE PATTIE, DIGGER REVELL, JADE HURLEY, DINAH LEE and LUCKY STARR.

Bonnie & Clyde The Musical is the story of two small-town kids from the middle of nowhere who became the biggest folk heroes in all America. They craved adventure - and each other. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, this is the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire nation. Bonnie and Clyde The Musical: Filmed Live features music by multi-Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award nominee Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernell, Death Note), lyrics by Tony and Oscar winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of Love), a book by Emmy Award nominee Ivan Menchell (Blended, The Cemetery Club, Death Note The Musical).

This multi award-winning show captured recently at the Sadler’s Wells Peacock Theatre is an extraordinary musical journey paying homage to Janis Joplin and her biggest musical influences. Like a comet that burns far too brightly to last, Janis Joplin exploded onto the music scene in 1967 and, almost overnight, became the queen of rock & roll. The unmistakable voice, filled with raw emotion and tinged with Southern Comfort, made her a must-see headliner from Monterey to Woodstock.

This multitalented line up of circus performers, each world class in their own right, have combined their acrobatic, juggling, aerial and balancing talents together to create a show like no other. This outstanding cast are led by a quirky ringmaster struggling with a fear common among us all... change.