Townsville City Council acknowledges the Wulgurukaba of Gurambilbarra and Yunbenun, Bindal, Gugu Badhun and Nywaigi as the Traditional Owners of this land.
We pay our respects to their cultures, their ancestors and their Elders, past, present and all future generations.
This year’s lineup of entertainment at our iconic Townsville Civic Theatre is the perfect mix of dance, drama, comedy and music to bring delight to theatregoers of all ages and interests.
I would like to extend a thank you to the Theatre staff, volunteers and patrons, without whom the 2024 Theatre Season would not be the exciting and dynamic program we have.
The hardworking Performing Arts team have gone above and beyond to prepare a program sure to capture imaginations, challenge perceptions and, above all, entertain.
Council remains committed to supporting our city’s performing arts culture by providing worldclass facilities like the Civic Theatre and providing ongoing support to many of the groups, artists and performers featured in this year’s program.
I welcome you all to use this program to start planning your perfect night at the theatre.
Thank you and I look forward to seeing you soon at one of our performances.
Cr Troy Thompson Mayor of Townsville
A beautifully paced story ebbing and flowing between moments of frenetic action and serene calm”
Mixing up feats of strength with precise controlled sequences ” “
Arts Hub FIRST NATIONS CIRCUS
Circa Cairns
Tuesday 5 March 2024
T ownsville Civic Theatre
TEAM
Creators: Harley Mann and the Circa Cairns Ensemble
Director: Harley Mann
Original Lighting Design: Johlian Gliindon
Reimagined Lighting Design: Morgan Maroney
Costume Design: Helen Lavis
Sound Design: Circa Cairns
You don’t know Far North Queensland if you haven’t experienced The Wet...
From the moment the green ant’s journey to higher ground begins till the final breaking of the storm, The Wet connects you to place and immerses you in the hot damp.
Following the natural arc of the wet season, the work is divided into the four distinct lessons of Country: Nature, Morality, Kinship and Lineage. Each lesson is a fundamental tool needed to
understand the story of the wet season.
The Wet has been created on Country across Far North Queensland in response to the landscape and endless yarns with the community.
Drawing on these ancient stories of the wet tropics, this dynamic acrobatic show thrills while connecting everyone to Country.
The Wet is a powerfully enduring circus, dripping with Culture.
Circa Cairns is a Circa initiative supported by the Queensland Government and the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.
Circa Cairns is based in Gimuy (Cairns) on the lands of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people.
We acknowledge that art has been practiced here over many millennia, and that it remains a fundamental way of life for the traditional Caretakers and Custodians of the lands on which we work, create and perform today. We acknowledge that we are here as visitors, and accept the responsibility to respect and care for these lands and tread lightly.
Always was. Always will be.
“ Crazy funny & funny crazy
Audience Member, The Old Museum (aged 10)
ALL AGES PHYSICAL THEATRE ENVIRON MENTAL
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Tuesday 26 March 2024
T ownsville Civic Theatre
TEAM
Director: Robbie Curtis
Co-Creator: Lizzie McRae
Performers: Robbie Curtis, Lizzie McRae
It’s a sticky situation. Queen Bee and Worker Bee need to work together to rebuild their hive, but things never quite go to plan...
A Bee Story is a uniquely Australian physical theatre show for children and families incorporating a kaleidoscope of circus, acrobatics, dance and live music. It tells the story of Queen Bee and Worker Bee who must work together to rebuild their hive after being destroyed by a bushfire. But things never quite go to plan…
Join the bees on their buzzy adventures and be enchanted by their pollen-collecting skills, honey-making abilities, and super-bee strength. A Bee Story has themes of environmentalism, sustainability, and community spirit, and was directed by performer Robbie Curtis (Circa, Cirque du Soleil, Circus Oz, Australian Ballet), and co-created with musician and performer Lizzie McRae.
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“ The BEST kids show I have ever seen
Audience
Member,
Wyong Arthouse (parent)
DATE
Wednesday 27 March 2024
T ownsville Civic Theatre
Are you ready to release your inner pirate? Is there a pirate in your family tree? Here’s your chance to dress like a pirate and sing like one too as North Queensland’s favourite Celtic folk band, 33 ⅓ delight you with a rousing performance of both traditional and contemporary songs and tunes from the sea.
Based in Townsville, 33 ⅓ are famous for their driving tempo, skilful playing, and strong stage presence. They will be warmed up from St. Patrick’s Day events and ready to give you a rollicking time. Be sure to pack your singing voice for this one. Eye patches are optional (but strongly encouraged).
...yet another great example of the cultural diversity of music in Townsville.
Les Nicholson Stokes-Nicholson Big Band
...JD is an outstanding artist and his voice is a total knockout!
Rick Price
(Australian
music legend)
Tuesday 23 APRIL 2024
T ownsville Civic Theatre
Let's hear it for the boys! Come celebrate the greatest songs from Australia’s greatest male singers.
Join JD Smith as he takes you on a journey through the pop, rock and country classics that have been the soundtrack to your life.
From the unofficial national anthems of John Farnham's You’re The Voice, Daryl Braithwaite’s The Horses & Peter Allen’s I Still Call Australia Home; Supergroup classics by ACDC, INXS, Cold Chisel, Little River Band and The Bee Gees; the poptastic stylings of John Paul Young, Rick Springfield and Leo Sayer through to iconic ballads from Savage Garden, Rick Price and Keith Urban…. you will be stunned by the powerhouse vocal versatility and charm that JD Smith brings to these songs on stage (a lifetime performing around the world in musicals and most recently with the international vocal supergroup The Ten Tenors will do that).
The Boys from Oz will have you singing, dancing and cheering as you remember how much you love these iconic songs from Australia’s most iconic male performers!
DATE
Friday 26 April 2024
VENUE
T ownsville Civic Theatre
Scenestr
Australia's biggest and best comedy spectacular is setting off on its 26th annual road trip around the country! Showcasing the finest talents from the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, we're delivering a dose of laughter right to your doorstep!
Featuring a line-up of beloved comedy royalty alongside the freshest sensations from the festival, all in one hilarious show that guarantees nationwide laughs.
Gather your pals, secure your tickets, and get ready for a well-deserved blast of comedy when the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow graces the stage in your neighbourhood!
Performances often contain coarse language, adult themes, sexual references and material that may offend. The show is recommended for people aged 15 years or older.
Smoke Machine/Hazer may be used during this performance.
DATE
TUESDAY 30 April 2024
VENUE
T ownsville Civic Theatre
Director: Jake Silvestro
Original Score: Ania Reynolds
Creative Circus Associate:
Lauren Shepherd
Lighting Designer: Kofi Isaacs
Costume Designer: April Dawson
Produced by: Flying Fruit Fly Circus
Photographer: Ian Sutherland
When the orchestra hasn't shown up and the audience is waiting, call the Flying Fruit Fly Circus!
A highly distinguished musician has arrived to conduct their latest symphony, but the orchestra is nowhere to be found. Fortunately, the Fruities are ready to save the day! And create chaos with the concert grand piano…
Directed by Jake Silvestro with an original score by Ania Reynolds, Tempo features an extraordinary ensemble of young performers aged between 12 and 18 who not only possess dazzling circus skills but also play instruments!
Shifting between striking aerial acts and highly choreographed acrobatic chaos, Tempo draws heavily on the traditional knockabout humour of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus – a trademark of the company over many years. Magic, slapstick, juggling, balancing, acrobatics and aerials tumble in, out and around the concert grand piano.
With no dialogue and plenty of gasp-inducing action, Tempo appeals to every age and is suitable, or perhaps essential, for all families.
DATE
3 - 5 MAY 2024
T ownsville Civic Theatre
Short plays will take centre stage at the North Queensland Festival of One-Act Plays in 2024.
A long-term partnership between Townsville City Council and the Friends of the Theatre, the festival will be held in the Townsville Civic Theatre.
The festival gives both groups and individual amateur thespians the opportunity to perform on stage and be critiqued on their work by an industry professional. The festival plays a role in the development of theatrical talent in the region and gives exposure to unknown local writers.
… legendary storytelling riddled with witty anachronisms…entirely voluntary participation, immediate love stories juxtaposed with the mythologised ones... mind-bending metaphysics, fabulous physicality, sublime singing and superb sound effects.
DATE
SATURDAY 1 JUNE 2024
VENUE
C2
Following the success of Don Juan & Jekyll & Hyde, A Slightly Isolated Dog brings you the third instalment in the trilogy of very sexy works: THE TROJAN WAR!
This explosive and hilarious work uses a cast of faux-French performers to create a joyful, interactive celebration. Theatrical magic, wicked pop songs and fierce wit is combined to create a delightful romp through this classic twisted tale.
When Paris is born, it is prophesied that he will bring the destruction of the city. To avoid this fate, he is sent away to be sacrificed. But this starts a series of events that will inevitably lead to the destiny his parents were so desperately trying to avoid.
THE TROJAN WAR tells the story of the tragic fall of Troy. It’s a raucous celebration of our ridiculous lives: using this classic tale of gods and heroes to playfully explore questions around the current chaos of our times.
DATE
Friday 14 June 2024
Saturday 15 June 2024
VENUE
T ownsville Civic Theatre
CREATIVE TEAM
Direction: Chris Dyke
Concept and Choreography: Chris Dyke, Amber Haines and Kyle Page
Composition and Sound Design: Anna Whitaker
Design: Andrew Treloar
Lighting Design: Chloe Ogilvie
Performers/Choreographers: Chris Dyke, Dancenorth Ensemble (Sabine Crompton-Ward, Tiana Lung, Damian Meredith, Tara Jade Samaya, Felix Sampson, Michael Smith).
Lighting the Dark is a bold new work by Chris Dyke, a Kaurna (Adelaide) based dancer and emerging choreographer living with Down Syndrome.
Chris is a young man with big hopes and a compendium of larger-than-life heroes that come to his aid in dark times.
Chris is a champion for inclusivity, and whilst his internal landscape is rich with dreams, wild imagination and an unfailing love for all, especially his Mum, at times the outside world sees only the cover of the book. A book, which, if they dared to open, would tell tender tales of care and friendship, and a radically inspiring story of creative brilliance.
Featuring the breath-taking Dancenorth Ensemble alongside Chris as the lead protagonist, Lighting the Dark is the retelling of a classic tale in which love and light rise up against the darkness.
Inspired by Chris’ real life heroes Banksy, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, Lighting the Dark illuminates Chris’ profoundly moving and life affirming adventure through the world. Throughout the work, each of these icons acts as a mirror, reflecting Chris’ expansive perception and limitless sense of possibility.
Join Chris as he traverses individual and universal truths in a dance to the very centre of what it means to be human.
Proudlove is the consummate performer, delighting crowds between songs and delivering lyric driven music that is instantly relatable.
Gareth Evan Timber and Steel
AGES 14+ COMING OF AGE SONGS & STORIES
Theatre Company
FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2024
VENUE C2
Writer/Performer:
Kay Proudlove
Director: Leland Kean
Dramaturg/Creative
Consultant: Phil Spencer
Costume Designer: Katja Handt
Dear Diary takes us on a journey through Kay’s teenage diaries through a collection of intimate and vulnerable stories and songs. From first kisses, girl power, Spice World, and Elijah Wood fan fiction, to lost gigs, found memories and frayed friendships, Dear Diary is a hilarious, nostalgic and sometimes painful revisiting of our teenage years, delving into the pressures and expectations of growing up.
Equal parts funny and heart-breaking, this solo show effortlessly weaves storytelling and live music. With wry humour and confessional stories, Dear Diary asks us to look at what we hold onto in our lives and when it’s the right time to let them go, if ever.
People who’ve seen Kay Proudlove play her songs know she’s whip-smart, hilarious and with the voice of an angel...
Lindsay McDougall ABC Illawarra
ALL AGES FIRST NATIONS
STORY TELLING
DATE
SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2024
VENUE
C2
Cast: David Bindi Hudson, Nereace, Nigel Pegrum
Playwrights: David Bindi Hudson, with Kathryn Ash and Cindy Hudson
Director: Isaac Drandic
Set, Costume and Production
Designer: Josh McIntosh
Production Artist: Jedess Hudson
Production Manager and Lighting
Designer: Sam Gibb
Projection Designer: Keith Deverell
Sound Designer: Nigel Pegrum
Music and Lyrics: Nereace, Nigel Pegrum and David Hudson
Musicians: David Hudson, Nigel Pegrum and Nereace
From Campfire to Stage Light is an epic journey toward self-determination and Indigenous pride, as told through the life experience of David Bindi Hudson, well-known and loved cultural leader and global ambassador for Indigenous Australia.
David is the ultimate storyteller, singersongwriter, dancer, visual artist and actor and the performance is brought to life through storytelling, songs, and extraordinary visual design.
The stories take us from David’s traditional lands to the international mega stages as David traversed the world musically, educating people about his culture. He co-founded the awardwinning dance troupe Tjapukai, whose achievements include being Australia’s longest-running theatrical production. David has emerged as a strong cultural leader with a significant arts practice.
This play, directed by nationally recognised First Nations director, Isaac Drandic, with music and lyrics by Nereace, Nigel Pegrum and David Bindi Hudson, will take the audience on a culturally rich journey of Far North Queensland and the world.
The perfect night at the theatre.
DATE
THURSDAY 11 JULY 2024
VENUE
T ownsville Civic Theatre
Adaptors: Nelle Lee, Nick Skubij with Shannon Molloy
Director: Nick Skubij
Creative Producer: Ross
Balbuziente
Set Designer: Josh McIntosh
Costume Designer: Fabian Holford
Lighting Designer: Trent
Suidgeest
Sound Designer: Guy Webster
Choreographer: Dan Venz
Intimacy Director: Michelle
Miall
Fight Director: Tim Dashwood
Shake & Stir Theatre Co
The year is 1999 and Shannon has a secret.
Shannon Molloy is a year 9 student at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland, with a secret that no one can ever find out. Shannon is gay.
Based on the best-selling memoir by award-winning journalist Shannon Molloy, Fourteen is the inspirational true story of growing up gay in central Queensland, transformed into a powerful must-see theatre production by nationally acclaimed Shake & Stir Theatre Co.
Set to a nostalgic mixtape of 90s bangers from all your faves, from Shania Twain to The Spice Girls, Fourteen addresses the trials and tribulations of growing up with honesty, humour and heart. Equal parts uplifting and heartwrenching, we follow Shannon in a year
of self-discovery set amidst a backdrop of torment, bullying and betrayal – not just at the hands of his peers, but by the adults who were meant to protect him.
This moving coming-of-age memoir about adversity and tragedy is also a story of resilience, hope and hilarity –thanks to the love of a group of closeknit friends, a fiercely protective family, an extraordinary mother and… S Club 7.
So press play on your discman, lose yourself in a pumping 90s pop remix and take a technicoloured trip back to your teens. This is Fourteen.
This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Originally co-produced with QPAC and Brisbane Festival.
Utterly captivating, heart wrenching, and witty, this adaption of Shannon Molloy’s memoir was lovingly brought to life.
When she sings ballads, she has the power to make you cry.
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Melinda Schneider
TRIBUTE ALL AGES
Melinda Schneider returns to the stage in 2024 to pay tribute to the legendary Doris Day.
The world lost one of its biggest stars with the passing of Doris Day with her leaving behind an incredible body of work, including iconic movies and unforgettable songs.
Doris Day, “the girl next door”, had millions of fans around the world, none bigger than charttopping Australian singer-songwriter Melinda Schneider, who has recorded two albums of Doris’ songs, co-written and starred in a theatre show based on Doris’ life, and done sell-out tours celebrating Doris’ work.
Melinda Schneider’s, A Farewell To Doris, is a heartfelt tribute to Doris Day. This nostalgic concert celebration will include such timeless hits as Que Sera, Sera, Sentimental Journey, Everybody Loves a Lover, and Secret Love plus classic songs from the movies Calamity Jane, Love Me or Leave Me and The Pajama Game, as well as a number of Doris’ big band standards.
Melinda is saddened by Doris’ passing, but proud to present A Farewell To Doris, knowing that Doris’ work will continue to bring joy to audiences of all ages.
DATE FRIDAY 30 August 2024
VENUE Townsville Civic Theatre
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
Karen Knowles and her band
The Elements (piano, guitar and cello)
ALL AGES AUSTRALIAN MUSIC
In her most personal show yet Karen Knowles presents Songs & Stories of Australia - a concert celebrating the Australian music that we’ve grown to love - songs from artists such as Judith Durham, Olivia Newton John and Archie Roach and featuring many other much loved songs that connect us to this amazing land we call home. Singing for and with Australian audiences, with heartfelt gratitude and recognition, promoting unity with all people and all of creation, be sure to book early for this amazing opportunity to join Karen for Songs & Stories of Australia - a one night only event. Karen has sung The Seekers repertoire extensively when touring with The Seekers as their lead singer in the early 1990s and has been singing Olivia’s music since her early teens on television. Through Karen’s work with reconciliation since the early 1990s she has sung I am Australian at various national events and was very touched by Archie Roach’s musical expression of connection to country. Karen very much enjoys travelling and connecting to country when touring and some of the songs that were written during such inspired times on country will also be featured as part of this performance. In this specially curated concert Karen will perform I Honestly Love You, Let Me Be There; I’ll Never Find Another You, Morningtown Ride, Carnival Is Over;
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Thank you for your moving concert last evening. The audience was very appreciative of your marvellous gift... you really do spread peace and joy.
Audience member
Under the Milky Way Tonight as well as Archie Roach’s gems Native Born and One Song and Karen’s own song Belong.
Songs & Stories offers audiences an opportunity to be with each other to collectively celebrate the gift of being Australian while honouring various iconic Australian artists who have created music that has touched our hearts forming a much loved soundtrack to our lives. Join Karen and her celestial band The Elements (piano, guitar, and cello) for this magical evening performing all the songs you know and love. This will be a concert to remember!
Book now
There isn't a wrong note in this one-hour ode to the sisterhood that you absolutely should snap up tickets to see.
Time Out Melbourne
An uplifting and
energetic
celebration of longevity. Chortle (UK)
DATE
saturday 31 august 2024
VENUE
C2
Written and performed by
Geraldine Quinn
Cabaret LGBTQI+ COMEDY
BROAD is a spandex-busting hour of acclaimed songwriting, show-stopping vocals, belly laughs, and defiance, wrapped up in royal-blue sequins and gold stack heels. Crowds were left buoyed and dazzled by this latest original cabaret from musical comedian Geraldine Quinn (Spicks & Specks). BROAD explores what it’s like to grow up admiring older, iconic women like Rhonda Burchmore and Vivienne Westwood, and suddenly finding you’re slowly becoming one…
After two years as MC of Circus Oz’s hit NEON, Quinn made a triumphant return to cabaret, in a career which has earned her 4-5 star reviews in Australia, NZ and UK. From an artist with more than 35 award nominations and wins, BROAD was a spectacular come-back. Quinn ended her 2022 Melbourne Comedy Festival run with sold out crowds, extra shows, and nominations for both Most Outstanding Show and Best Local Independent Production – making it the most award-nominated show of the entire festival.
Not too shabby – for an old broad.
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
DATE Friday 27 September 2024
VENUE
T ownsville Civic Theatre
Conductor: Vladimir Fanshil
Host: Ashleigh Denning Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Have you ever wanted to experience a symphony orchestra live? This is your opportunity to get up close to the music, as Queensland Symphony Orchestra comes to Townsville Civic Theatre!
In this interactive family concert you will meet the musicians behind the instruments, and marvel as they work together to tell stories and create amazing sounds. Featuring a variety of music including Joe Twists’ magical The Flying Orchestra, this concert is guaranteed fun for all ages, and the perfect school holiday outing!
Book now
North Australian Festival of Arts and Townsville Civic Theatre present A Brisbane Festival and QPAC production of
Adapted by Tim McGarry
With additional writing by Trent Dalton and Fiona Franzmann Directed by Sam Strong
4 - 11 October 2024
Get ready to fall in love all over again.
Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, bestselling author – and one of Australia's finest journalists – Trent Dalton spent two months in 2021 gathering stories on his sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter, on a prominent street corner in Brisbane’s CBD. Speaking to Australians from all walks of life, he asked them one simple thing: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'
What followed was Dalton’s unashamedly joyous collection of Love Stories, and the creative team behind the smash-hit page-tostage adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe (director Sam Strong and writer Tim McGarry) reuniting to bring to life Dalton’s latest warm, wise, poignant, funny and moving story about
One
DATE THURSDAY
10 OCTOBER 2024
T ownsville Civic Theatre
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
Amelia Ryan & Michael Griffiths
Helpmann Award winner Michael Griffiths and acclaimed cabaret darling Amelia Ryan celebrate the songbooks of Aussie icons Olivia NewtonJohn and Peter Allen.
From their humble small-town beginnings to world domination in sequins and jumpsuits, revisit all of their sing-a-long classics from Rio to Tenterfield, all the way to Xanadu and beyond. As camp as maracas and tender as Pete’s gift to Livvy I Honestly Love You, there promises to be rollerskates, T-Birds, Pink Ladies, 80s jazzercise and an Oscar winning song to boot!
Livvy & Pete made its debut in 2016 at the Ballarat Cabaret Festival, and Adelaide’s Feast Festival. Since then it has delighted audiences at The Adelaide Fringe Festival (Garden Of Unearthly Delights), The Hobart Spiegeltent, The Wollongong Spiegeltent, Vivaldi’s Canberra, Slide Sydney, Adelaide Fringe Roadshow, and the Brisbane Cabaret Festival.
Limelight Magazine
Thoughtful, imaginative and raw Scenestr
DATE
Friday 1 November 2024
VENUE
Townsville Civic Theatre
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Ryan Enniss
Director: Daniel Evans
Drizzle Boy is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland
Drizzle Boy is autistic. Drizzle Boy is poked, prodded and diagnosed by a world that wants to change him and a family who doesn’t understand him. Then, on his first day of university, he meets Juliet and suddenly everything seems possible — even his lifelong dream of building a rocket and blasting-off toward the stars!
But Drizzle Boy’s day-to-day life is harder than navigating intergalactic space travel. He’s going to need all the help he can get — that’s where you come in! You’re invited to climb aboard this wildly audacious and wonderfully affirmative rocket ride as Drizzle Boy launches out into the regions as part of a tour throughout Queensland.
DATE
Saturday 23 NOVEMBER 2024
Compered by Lynn Tarring, this year’s Morning Melodies' Friends of the Theatre's Concert is a traditional variety show showcasing the performances by Townsville’s singers and musicians.
It's a show you won't want to miss.
Karen Knowles is a gem with many facets - she shines from whatever angle you view her.
Audience member
DATE
WEDNESDAY
18 DECEMBER 2024
VENUE
We’re so excited to welcome back Karen Knowles to the Townsville Civic Theatre as she presents a special Christmas concert!
One of Australia’s most popular singers, star of the musical Big River and lead singer with The Seekers in the early 1990s, Karen started her career on Young Talent Time. Her first smash hit single Why Won’t You Explain achieved goldselling status, and was followed by the platinum award-winning album You Are the Reason. Her second album also gained gold status, making Karen one of Australia’s most successful female recording artists. Karen recently released her 7th studio album Solid Ground and 8th studio album Sanctuary
Well known for her carols and Christmas repertoire, join Karen for a wonderful selection of her hits, standards, new music and your favourite Christmas songs as she returns to Townsville to celebrate the festive season with you. We look forward to you being with us as Karen spreads joy, peace, unity and connection through songyou’ll be uplifted by her music into the Spirit of Christmas.
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Townsville Civic Theatre and C2 offer accessible entrances to all main areas of the venue with easy access facilities for patrons and companions.
The venue features floor level access to the bar and foyer, external and internal ramps located on either side of the foyer to access the auditorium through doors 1 & 2, and an elevator is located next to the TicketShop for additional access to doors 4 & 6.
An external ramp is located at the stage door for performers and production staff to enter backstage, and an internal elevator is located backstage for access to all dressing rooms and the orchestra pit.
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Enjoy a selection of fine wines, spirits, light refreshments and something to eat when visiting Townsville Civic Theatre. The bar opens one hour prior to performances, during interval and also offers pre-booked meals through Cuisine To Go. Meals must be booked at least 48 hours before the scheduled performance and will vary with each performance.
Beat the queue and pre-order your interval drinks. Simply fill out a form at the bar and your drinks will be ready at interval.
The Townsville Civic Theatre is located at 41 Boundary Street, Townsville. Next door to Reid Park and a short stroll away from Palmer Street and the CBD. We are accessible via walking, motor vehicle, bike and bus.
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Townsville Civic Theatre is operating in accordance with the Queensland Government’s Restrictions on Business, Activities and Undertakings Direction.
The Townsville Civic Theatre is North Queensland's premier cultural facility owned and managed by Townsville City Council. Since its opening in 1978, the Townsville Civic Theatre continues to be a dynamic centre of entertainment nurturing the performing arts in Townsville and the wider region.
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