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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.
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby
Adapted by Daniel Evans and Nelle Lee
Directed by Daniel Evans and Nick Skubij
presented by Queensland Theatre and Shake & Stir Theatre Co.
Saturday 28 February 2026
Tactile Tour: 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
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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
Welcome to The Jazz Age: a fever dream of dizzying excess where love, lies and liquor are in hot supply. Late to this glittering party arrives Nick Carraway, a blow-in from the mid-West, who’s immediately drawn to the enigmatic playboy next door: Jay Gatsby.
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Every Saturday night New York’s Flappers, Freeloaders and Pleasure Seekers swill from Gatsby’s generosity while rumours swirl about their mysterious host. Is he a racketeer? A mobster? A bootlegger? A saint? Nick soon discovers the forlorn Gatsby is a man who has everything he wants - except the only woman he’s ever loved … Daisy.
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Considered one of the greatest novels ever written, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece comes roaring to the stage in a stylish and scintillating adaptation where dreams shimmer then shatter, hearts beat achingly out of time and everyone’s chasing their own green light.
The Riddle of Washpool Gully
by David Morton
presented by Dead Puppet Society & QPAC
Saturday 21 March 2026
Tactile Tour: 9:00am
Show Starts 10:00am
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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
Far beyond the outskirts of the big city, near a tiny town that nearly everyone forgot, lay a dry creek bed of no special significance. Once upon a time it had been called Washpool Gully. But the world had moved on from insignificant things, and no one had time for dry creek beds. Except in Washpool Gully something was stirring. Shaken by the rumble of engines and darkening of the sky, something long asleep had decided to wake up.
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Combining old-fashioned storytelling with contemporary puppetry and miniature sets, The Riddle of Washpool Gully is a reimagined tale of Australian mythology about the incredible creatures that might still live in the uncharted corners of our vast country.
Your Song
created by The Little Red Company
Saturday 28 March 2026
Tactile Tour: 1:45pm
Show Starts 3:00pm
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Brisbane Powerhouse, 119 Lamington Street, New Farm.
Tales of heartbreak and hope, of pain and passion, of first loves and final moments, weave through Elton John’s iconic songbook in this Matilda Award-winning smash hit production.
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Your Song celebrates the unforgettable music of megastar Elton John and the memorable moments it evokes for everyday people, reimagining Elton’s biggest songs including “Candle in the Wind”, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “I’m Still Standing”, “Benny and the Jets” and “Tiny Dancer” using powerful stories and personal experiences shared by real-life people.
Torch The Place
by Benjamin Law
presented by Queensland Theatre Company
Sunday 29 March 2026
Tactile Tour: 12:30pm
Show Starts 2:00pm
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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)
From Queensland born-and-bred TV writer and author Benjamin Law (The Family Law), comes his breakout comedy Torch the Place - a hilarious and deeply moving exploration of family, legacy, and the things we hold onto — literally.
Teresa’s mum can’t let go of anything — from grudges to Princess Di's ash trays to late 90s Disney VHS. She sees her ordinary Gold Coast home as a museum of irreplaceable treasures. But she’s not a curator… she’s a hoarder.
When her children return to celebrate her 60th birthday, she’s thrilled to have them home. But this isn’t just a reunion — it’s an intervention. Armed with a skip bin and good intentions, the siblings attempt to help their mother confront decades of detritus, rusted-on emotions and long-buried memories.
Inspired by Law’s own family experience and Australia’s fast-growing problem with compulsive hoarding, Torch the Place balances sharp wit with a deeply emotional reckoning around trauma, identity, and the meaning of “stuff.”
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
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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.
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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.
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“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.”
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
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.