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Promenade Dance School's Mid Year Showcase- school aged classes

Proudly celebrating its incredible 10th Anniversary, having sold out venues worldwide, Seven Drunken Nights - The Dubliners’ Songbook returns to Australia for 2026! Performed by a phenomenal cast of Irish musicians, the show is packed full of classics like Whiskey in the Jar, The Irish Rover and Rocky Road to Dublin - guaranteed to get your toes tapping as they bring the joy of this much-loved Irish folk band back to the stage.

The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase tour will be tearing up the freeways of Australia to bring the best of the 2026 Festival! 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!

CELEBRATING THE EVERLY BROTHERS AND ROY ORBISON’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY! Australia’s #1 vocal duo, the much-loved Robertson Brothers, join forces with the internationally acclaimed Dean Bourne — the world’s greatest Roy Orbison tribute artist — and the Variety Show team for an unforgettable 2-hour audio-visual spectacular.

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

"No words. One task. Two clowns. Rae Colquhoun-Fairweather and Will Bartolo star as two art installers with a simple mission: hang up a piece of art. But what they didn’t plan on, is an audience watching and a live musician scoring their every move. How hard can it be? Silly, poetic and deeply funny, Masterpiece promises a clowning experience like no other.

The Joy Of Getting It (Horribly, Terribly) Wrong In theatre and in life, failure is inevitable but how do you bounceback and keep moving forward? In this fun and fearless workshop, you will learn how to turn failure into inspiration through the art of clowning. Beginning with the fundamentals of clown, we will guide you through a series of exercises that will help you to embrace your flaws and ignite your inner fool. Students will gain resilience, enhance their listening skills and learn how to be funny... without even trying.

Join Tiph Harris, & Alice Blackwood for a poetry workshop at BMEC following the success of the Bx Poetry Slam. Through guided exercises and creative prompts, you’ll explore language, rhythm, and personal storytelling in a supportive, low-pressure environment. No experience needed.... just bring your ideas. 

Go behind the scenes and learn the fundamentals of live sound in this practical, full-day workshop with Dom Ingersole. Participants will explore how audio systems work in real performance environments, from the basic signal path and microphone setup through to gain structure, EQ, monitoring, and digital desk operation. Designed for students, emerging artists and early-career creatives, this workshop offers valuable hands-on experience that builds confidence with the equipment, workflows and problem-solving skills used in the live events industry. Participants will work through real audio scenarios, including foldback, feedback control, routing, and live mixing, helping them understand what it takes to support a show from backstage or FOH.

This workshop is a full-day introduction to stage lighting with Dom Ingersole, covering lighting basics, rigging and safety, reading lighting plans, patching, focusing, intelligent lights, and digital desk operation through practical exercises across the day. Designed for students, emerging creatives and anyone curious about technical theatre, the session introduces the foundations of stage lighting before moving into hands-on work .

Join us on a Magical Mystery Tour to relive the years of The Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band of all time. We'll take you down the Long and Winding Road - from the “Fab Four” days of matching suits and matching mop hair, to the “experimental” days of Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, and Kaleidoscope Eyes.

Everyone put your bins out, tonight’s bin night and the Trash Test Dummies are on duty. With side-splitting slapstick comedy, daring acrobatics and dexterous juggling these Dummies are off on an imaginative adventure that is anything but garbage. With ballet and balloons thrown in for good measure, this fast-paced hour of “adept unadulterated mischief” (The Times) delivers a dump truck full of hilarity!

The Strangeways Cabaret takes audiences on an antics-fuelled ride that packs a surprising emotional punch. Songs about online dating, loneliness and broken promises, along with duelling eyebrows, glamorous drag queens, and stories of killer spiders and lovelorn vampires all combine to create a joyful celebration of life and love in all its forms.

"Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke" - A compelling true story from WWII, honouring the bravery strength, love and hope of Australian Army Nurses in the face of adversity. Tix on sale Thurs 30 Oct at 10am.

There's life after Romeo at this larger-than-life musical by the Emmy-winning writer from Schitt's Creek and pop music's #1 hitmaker. & Juliet flips the script on the greatest love story ever told, imagining what would happen next if Juliet hadn’t ended it all over Romeo, and got a second chance at life and love – on her terms. Juliet’s new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, all written by Max Martin and his collaborators, including “Since U Been Gone,” “Roar,” “Baby One More Time,” “Larger Than Life,” “That’s The Way It Is,” “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” and many more.

A sparkling, dazzling children's opera for the whole family. Don't miss this inspiring tale in a 50-minute children’s opera adaptation from Australian composer Lachlan Massey, following its premiere at the Sydney Opera House in May. Lennie Gwyther is an Australian hero. In 1932, aged just nine years old, Lennie travelled on his chestnut pony from Leongatha all the way to Sydney, to see the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of hundred gathered to see him at stops along the way. His journey made headlines around the country and even made it into the papers in London.

All In is an uplifting, immersive experience that celebrates the richness and power of dance as a community unifier. It reminds us that dance can connect us in ways few other things can, facilitating social connection, joy and reflection. Witness some of the best dancing you’ve ever seen, up close and personal, in this bespoke production, made alongside local artists. Led by Director/Choreographer Miranda Wheen, All In features performances from Dance Makers Collective featuring dance groups from the central west area.

Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron, the Queen advised her prime ministers on matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.

Yani wants to go to the Easter Show, Kai wants a sense of home, Shanika wants her Mum back, and Lachlan…well, he just wants his bowl of noodles. But when the justice system is all that stands between these young people and what they want, it raises an important question—how do young people grow when the system keeps cutting them down? After premiering at The Rebel Theatre for the Sydney Festival in 2024 and winning Sydney Theatre Award’s Best Production for Young People, Yuwaalaray playwright Hannah Belanszky and Kalkadoon director Abbie-lee Lewis bring Saplings to the stage once again, a collection of hilarious and heartbreaking stories born from workshops with young people experiencing the youth justice system from Marrickville to Moree. Four talented young actors take on multiple roles in this poetic, personal, and unexpected production that will leave you asking who’s really to blame.

As a special Bathurst Writers’ and Readers’ Festival fundraising event, we welcome Bruce Pascoe to Bathurst to speak about his new book Big Sky, when the emu left the earth published on 7 April 2026.

Experience the next wave of local talent as our competition finalists hit the stage with their brand-new original songs. Each performance is amplified by a top-tier band of local musicians, bringing depth, energy, and serious vibe to every moment. Don’t miss this celebration of creativity, community, and the thrill of live music. Grab your friends, lock in your tickets, and meet us in the Showroom for an unforgettable night!

Join Bluey and her family in their first live theatre show made just for you. This is Bluey as you’ve never seen it before, brought to real life.

Karisha and The FunKaars, a world music band hailing from Canberra, offers a unique blend of Eastern and Western musical traditions. A live and interactive show, the band showcases a diverse range of instruments and multilingual vocals. Through their fusion music, they aim to share the richness of Indian subcontinent culture and spirituality with their audience. FunKaars, meaning 'Artists' फनकार in Indian language, create an exciting experience of fusing Indian classical cultural spiritual folk music based on Hindustani Indian ragas with jazz mash-ups and the flavour of Bollywood.

With singing, dancing, comedy and the joys of sheer honesty, Joanna Murray-Smith's acclaimed play Bombshells is a journey from crisis to hilarity, via the thoughts of a group of women all linked by more than just their proximity to the edge; a nervous bride-to-be, an exhausted young mother, a widow with a yearning for the unexpected, a broken-hearted cactus lover, and a feisty teenage talent-quest competitor. Joy, drama, crisis, fear, revelation – there are times where you have to remain cool and calm on the outside. The inside, meanwhile, is a flailing monologue of personal pep talks, perish-the-thoughts and perpetual panic. Bombshells strips back the masks we wear to reveal the things that sometimes we’d just love to say out loud.

The Farmy Farm has more going on than a chook in a worm farm! Jaw-dropping acrobatics on tall towers of hay, giant juggling carrots, fair dinkum high flying farmers and loads of laughs for everyone! It’s all in a day's work for our dead set legends and all round larrikins Kenny & Jenny - they’ve been doing this for years. Still, you never know if they might need you to lend a hand!

The regions biggest concert is back for another year! WOMAN 2026 is a high-energy charity concert celebrating the extraordinary women whose music has shaped generations. Performed by members of the community who are coached, supported and staged by professionals in the entertainment industry, Woman has become an iconic yearly event. Featuring a powerhouse lineup of performers, and supported by the Showgroup dancers from Pure imagination Performing Arts,  the show brings to life the songs of legendary artists like Celine Dion, Stevie Nicks, Boney M, Donna Summer, Kylie, Linda Ronstadt, Olivia Dean and many more. With rave reviews each year, WOMAN delivers an entertaining and uplifting night of music, nostalgia and unforgettable performances. With 2 performances in Bathurst, the concert brings our community together to celebrate the power of women in music while raising vital funds for this years beneficiary, Central West Women’s Health Centre.

Following his sold-out 2026 national arena Guy Sebastian announces he’ll hit the road once again with his band for the “100 X Around Australia Tour”, a major regional run of 54 dates spanning across NSW, SA, QLD, WA and VIC. Tickets are on sale now!

A tribute to the unforgettable sound of Jeff Lynne's THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA. Evil Woman, Rock and Roll is King, Don't Bring me Down, Xanadu, Living Thing, Telephone Line, Turn to Stone and also featuring music from Jeff Lynne's Traveling Wilburys. So many hit songs you will not want this night to finish.

"In Their Own Words celebrates the songs and stories of twenty trailblazing Australian women; some whom are recognised, many whom are not. Rachael weaves verbatim words and anecdotes collected from women including Ita Buttrose, Tanya Plibersek, Marcia Langton and Carlotta, with the music of famous Australian songwriters such as Missy Higgins, Kate Miller-Heidke, Kate Ceberano, and Dami Im, to create a powerful tapestry of female strength and achievement. From artists to scientists, politicians to humanitarians, these are stories of triumph, resilience, and breakthrough – mostly never before heard on stage.

Wolf. A gasp-inducing acrobatic thrill ride. Clad in designer Libby McDonnell's form-hugging costumes and set to DJ Ori Lichtik's relentless primal rhythms, the cast of ten extraordinary Circa artists grasp, tear, climb, leap and balance with fierce abandon. For Director Yaron Lifschitz, the wolf is a symbol of our untameable selves: liberating, anarchic and savage. In two contrasting acts, the wolves evolve from disruptive forces of chaos into a ferocious pack whose intense choreographies overflow with raw energy and astounding physicality.

All My Sons by Arthur Miller, directed by Ivo Van Hove, with design by Jan Versweyveld. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).

"Stand by for a showstopper! The incomparable Queenie van de Zandt, multi-award-winning musical theatre star and one of the country’s most celebrated voices, steps into the spotlight with a riotously fun and completely original celebration of all things Broadway. In Choose Your Own MUSICAL THEATRE Adventure, Queenie throws open the stage door and invites you into her world of show-stopping, musical theatre bangers, hilarious showbiz anecdotes and Broadway inspired antics that will delight newcomers and superfans alike.

DOLLY: I Will Always Love You is the ultimate tribute to country music royalty. Starring Australia's premier Dolly Parton tribute, Brooke McMullen who delivers a show-stopping performance that's a love letter to the Queen of Country herself. Brooke masterfully captures the essence of Dolly, delivering powerhouse vocals, dazzling costumes, and a stage presence that's pure Dolly. Together with her talented live band, Brooke brings the iconic singers greatest hits to life, from 'Jolene' to '9 to 5' and beyond. Don't miss DOLLY: I Will Always Love You, a true celebration of the one and only Dolly Parton!

Australia’s premier tribute to Pink Floyd returns with a powerful new production, Shine On – Songs That Built a Legacy — an interactive and immersive live experience celebrating the music that defined generations across six decades and fifteen studio albums. This brand-new show takes audiences on a breathtaking journey across all eras of Pink Floyd’s catalogue — from the band’s beginnings, culminating in the spectacular success of The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, to the conceptual brilliance of Animals and The Wall and finally the powerful stadium rock of A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell. Every note, every nuance and every moment is delivered with precision, passion and authenticity.