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Queensland Theatre Company
2026 SEASON on sale now
Tactile Tours & Audio Description for every production in the 2026 Season.
Vantagepoint is delighted to return to QTC in 2026. Every production in the season will offer a tactile tour and audio described performance - typically on the third or final Saturday 2pm matinee of each production. Tactile tours are also available at 12:30pm, prior to the audio described performance.
Season Ticket sales are now open if you wish to save up to 20% when you purchase an 8-Play Package. Choose from an 8, 6 or 5 Play package.
Sting performs in
The Last Ship
The Musical
Music and lyrics by Sting
New book by Barney Norris and Lorne Campbell
Based on the original book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey
Saturday 2 May 2026
Show Starts 1:30pm
Glasshouse Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Book Tickets via QPAC Group Sales and mention Audio Description.
Ph: 07 3840 7466 (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)
Email: groups@qpac.com.au
Acclaimed musical THE LAST SHIP – written, composed and starring international music icon Sting – will be presented for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere in QPAC’s magnificent Glasshouse Theatre in 2026 for a strictly limited season.
Never before has QPAC welcomed a musician of Sting’s magnitude – a 17-time Grammy Award winning artist – to take up residency in one of our theatres, much less be the star of a musical for an entire season in our brand-new venue. A showcase piece of Glasshouse Theatre’s opening program, it’s undoubtedly the theatre event of 2026.
About the show:
Inspired by Sting’s childhood in Wallsend in the United Kingdom, and drawing on his own musical roots, THE LAST SHIP tells the piercing story of a community facing the disappearance of their shipyard – the heart of their existence.
Sting takes on the leading role of Jackie White, the shipyard’s foreman whose health is failing just as his leadership is needed most. In this very personal show, the artist immerses the audience in a hometown he was desperate to escape, a world where love, loss, and hope intertwine.
“I literally grew up in the shadow of the yard,” Sting says. “I dreamed of escaping – and I succeeded. But later I realised I had to give something back. THE LAST SHIP is my tribute to the people and the place that shaped me.”
Duck Pond
By Circa
Saturday 16 May 2026
Show Starts 2:00pm
Playhouse, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Book Tickets via QPAC Group Sales and mention Audio Description.
Ph: 07 3840 7466 (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)
Email: groups@qpac.com.au
Feathers will fly in Circa’s exuberant take on Swan Lake.
The world’s most romantic ballet is re-imagined as a circus spectacular, full of Circa’s signature physicality and shot through with cheeky humour and a thoroughly contemporary energy.
Be swept away by this tale of swans and hapless princes sparkling with quirky touches like the sequinned flipper-wearing duck army and a burlesque black swan. There are sumptuous aerials, jaw-dropping acrobatics and of course feathers! Touching, funny and utterly entertaining, Duck Pond is a tale of identity and finding your true self. Whether for a romantic evening or a moment of joy with family and friends, this is a show for everyone.
The Sapphires
by Tony Briggs
A Queensland Theatre Company and Canberra Theatre Centre co-production
Saturday 16 May 2026
Tactile Tour: 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
Bille Brown Theatre, 78 Montague Road, South Brisbane.
Book Tickets via Queensland Theatre Company Box Office and mention Audio Description.
Ph: 07 3700 7600 (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)
It's 1969. The Vietnam War. Bombs are dropping and the world is exploding in protest. Back at the Tiki Club in St Kilda, four sisters from country Victoria - Gail, Kay, Cynthia and Julie - catch the eye of a big-city talent scout with their Supremes cover act. But for the MacCrae girls, the realisation of a lifelong dream to perform overseas isn’t quite what they had in mind …
Based on the incredible true story of writer Tony Briggs’ mother, The Sapphires chronicles how these fierce and fabulous Yorta Yorta women blazed a trail from their small town roots to the frontlines of Vietnam, belting out Motown hits for the American soldiers and breaking through barriers with every beat.
For over 25 years, this multi-award-winning play and the hit film it inspired have captivated audiences across the world. Now The Sapphires are back to raise the roof on the Bille Brown Theatre in a sparkling new production featuring the next generation of First Nation superstars led by original director and theatre legend, Wesley Enoch.
Packed with heart, clad in sequins and boasting a swinging soundtrack that defined a generation, this story about a band of women — daring to go where others refused — is a powerful cultural anthem to the solidarity and soul of First Nations’ sisterhood.
The Drover's Wife
The Opera
Directed by Leah Purcell
Libretto by Leah Purcell with George Palmer
Composed by George Palmer
Friday 22 May 2026
Show Starts 7:00pm
Glasshouse Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Book Tickets via QPAC Group Sales and mention Audio Description.
Ph: 07 3840 7466 (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)
Email: groups@qpac.com.au
Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty.
Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she faces no shortage of threats. With her husband away droving sheep, she faces them alone. But when Yadaka, an Aboriginal man evading colonial authorities, disrupts Molly’s hard-won sanctuary, the pair’s shared history of brutal hardships can no longer be ignored.
The Drover’s Wife is a monumental new opera based on the play, novel and film by one of Australia’s leading artists, Leah Purcell AM. With a ravishing score by George Palmer AM performed live by Queensland Symphony Orchestra, this new version reveals the symphonic soul of Purcell’s modern classic in its most expansive telling yet.
Melodies soar with raw emotion. Luscious orchestrations capture the beauty and violence of the Australian High Country. Grand opera traditions meet contemporary First Nations storytelling. History is set to be made as this epic tale is brought to QPAC’s newest stage, the stunning Glasshouse Theatre – a glorious new performing arts space designed for bold ideas and brilliant entertainment.
GRIMM: Tales from the Brothers Grimm
presented by Shake & Stir Theatre Co and QPAC
Saturday 6 June 2026
Tactile Tour: 1:00pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane.
Book Tickets via QPAC Group Sales and mention Audio Description.
Ph: 07 3840 7466 (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)
Email: groups@qpac.com.au
Nationally-revered Shake & Stir Theatre Co invite you into a world where fairytales are reimagined with a profound intensity and irreverent glee. But be warned – these bedtime stories may cause nightmares…
Within the walls of an abandoned drinking house in the deep dark forest, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and many others emerge from the thicket to share the truth behind their stories – warts and all. Consequently, surprises and never-before-told truths boil and bubble seductively to the surface...
From the company behind the award-winning stage spectacles – The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein and A Christmas Carol – comes this bold adaption of tales from the Brothers Grimm in a bewitching theatre experience.