Local boutique web design and development agency Blue Platypus, in conjunction with The Arts Centre Gold Coast, is offering marketing support for one lucky artist or arts organisation.

RAW's Bang! Crash! Tap! features a team of two tap-dancers, an amazing beatboxing champion and one of Australia’s most talented drummers.

From Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee, The Zoo Story features in The Arts Centre Gold Coast’s black box from Wed 16 May until Sat 19 May.

Full house, standing ovation and rave reviews … Hopelessly Devoted is now set to be ‘The One That The Gold Coast Wants’!
‘Hopelessly Devoted is a terrific, original and inventive two-hander musical play.  With its songbook of Olivia Newton-John hits, it can’t miss’ – Peter Pinne - Stage Whispers.

In April 2009, 19-year-old Toowoomba teenager Kristian Terauds died due to complications from illicit drug use. His father wrote an account of his son’s death, calling it April’s Fool.

One of Australia’s most brilliant and versatile flautists, Jane Rutter, will enchant audiences with delicious French music in her concert An Australian in Paris at The Arts Centre Gold Coast on Friday 4 May.

In a sensational tribute, Melanie Parry brings to life the legendary Judy Garland at The Arts Centre Gold Coast on Wednesday 18 April at 11.00am. 

Forbidden Broadway is a fun, satirical, and affectionate rip-off of a number of well-known Broadway musicals including: Chicago, Annie, Wicked, Les Miserable, Mamma Mia and Phantom of the Opera.

The next major event on the calendar is the free Family Fun Day being held on Sunday 25 March from 9.30am – 3pm. The highlight of the day will be the launch of new Gold Coast tween pop sensation – UnderCover 5 who will be performing live shows at 11.00am and 1.30pm.

Legendary UK comic John Cleese – star of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers – is bringing his one man show – “An Evening With John Cleese” to Australia in 2012.

Gold Coast audiences are set for a hilarious night out when the Funny Boys hit The Arts Centre on Thursday 8 March at 7pm.

The Surfer and The Mermaid depicts a surreal underwater world where a young surfer is led by a mermaid into the depths to meet her marine friends, the whales.

With intense choreography, a compelling original soundscape and breathtaking physicality, Dancenorth’s MASS will enthral audience members on Saturday 10 March at The Arts Centre Gold Coast.

Judy Watson's heron island suite is the artist’s response to the time she spent on the island, where she examined worrying signs of the impact of human activity and the onset of global warming on the Great Barrier Reef.

The Sons of Beaches ’72 exhibition is the third feature event on the calendar and will run in Gallery 2 from Saturday 4 February until Sunday 18 March.

Inspired by research into early childhood development, Cradle Songs invites parents to interact with their babies and the artist and hear from an infant specialist.

This exciting, young and vibrant jazz ensemble received a standing ovation at the 2011 Broadbeach Jazz Festival with their respectful performance of some of the world’s most favourite melodies and stories.

Acclaimed worldwide for his uniquely Australian music, Colin Offord’s latest project (the Curlew Republic) brings together a group of brilliant musicians to perform on his original, homemade instruments.

Adam Rozenbachs - stand up comedian, writer, broadcaster and ventriloquist dummy disliker - has steadily risen to become one of Australia's funniest and most consistent performers, writers and broadcasters.

On Friday 17 February, The Arts Centre Gold Coast will welcome an international rhythm master, Bruce Mathiske.  With a dexterous finger span, he plays lead, rhythm, and bass, at the same time!

The Circle Project Inc. is an incorporated association which will operate within a recording studio and production house. It will provide cost effective music production and recording facilities to South East Queensland musicians, with expansion nationally in the future.

This exhibition represents the foresight of one of Australia’s major art collectors and patrons, businessman Patrick Corrigan AM, who is also Chairman of Gold Coast City Gallery.

Grab your slap bands, shoulder pads and blue eye-shadow and rock out this New Year’s Eve 80s style, with Generation X – The Final Countdown dinner and show at The Arts Centre Gold Coast.

The Arts Centre Gold Coast will celebrate its 25th birthday on Tuesday 6 December, 2011 and The Arts Centre management are inviting locals down to join them for morning tea to celebrate.

Its official! The Arts Centre Gold Coast is proud to announce that Australia’s original Mary Poppins, Verity Hunt-Ballard will be poppin’ in to the 2012 Friends of the Arts Centre Gold Coast Youth Arts Academy’s Musical Theatre Summer Residency!

Join Harmony and Rhapsody and some of their favourite Fairyland friends as they prepare for a very special Christmas in The Fairies prettiest, most fan-fairy-tastic show ever!

If you agree that in comedy, everyone's fair game, then Sam McCool's the comic to catch. Watching Sam has been described as like watching a Schizophrenic on SBS or the UN on Speed! 

Don’t miss Gavin Doniger and his Mescalito Blues fresh from their European tour when they headline at Unplugged in The Basement this Thursday 24 November.

Gold Coast City Gallery was the only Queensland institution to receive awards in either the Museum and Galleries National Awards, and Museums Australia Publications and Design Awards presented at the 2011 Museums Australia National Conference this week.

On Sunday 11 December 2011 from 6.00-8.00pm, The Arts Centre Gold Coast will celebrate Christmas at Lakeside Terrace.

This twelve day professional development program aims to create an understanding and appreciation of the art form which is music theatre.

The Gold Coast Indie Film and Television Network (GCIFTN) event, on Wednesday 30 November invites you to join them for the final (GCIFTN) event this year!

This evening the Andrew Baxter Blues Extravaganza featuring Mike Frost, Mal Wood, Wil Sargisson play some of BBʼs greatest hits and best known songs. This material gives the horn section a chance to shine.

Many works are presented as large scale installations and visitors will literally navigate through ideas as they move around the art works.

Always uplifting and deeply moving, Bangarra’s unique style unifies traditional culture and contemporary ideas in a breath-taking theatrical experience.

Now in its tenth year Short+Sweet is the world’s largest 10 minute play festival. The biggest little play festival actually began in the late 90s and became Short+Sweetin 2001.

If you love music from Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and My Fair Lady then a show by Australia’s leading cabaret group Black Tie is for you.

The annual Melbourne Cup Luncheon at The Arts Centre Gold Coast is more than just a fun filled day, with tantalising food and all the action live from Flemington; it is also a valuable initiative for raising funds for local Leukaemia patients and their families.

Gold Coast Indie Film and Television Network (GCIFTN) founder Caroline Russo, with the assistance of local film maker Steven Caldwell, has pulled together a panel of local editing experts on Wednesday 28 September at The Arts Centre Gold Coast.

Be inspired by the uplifting sounds of the Gold Coast Pops Orchestra with their upcoming concert to be held at The Arts Centre Gold Coast on Saturday 22 October 2011 at 7.30pm.

Last week, the Australian Government announced 3.6 million dollars worth of grants to performing arts companies Australia wide, to facilitate touring throughout the nation. As a result, The Arts Centre Gold Coast is the beneficiary of seven outstanding productions including; comedy, dance, drama, music and children’s theatre.

Direct from China, the Shaolin Warriors return to the Australian stage showcasing the remarkable skill, stunning movement, and spectacular imagery of kung fu in a dynamic new production touring nationally throughout Australia from September 2011.

If there is one thing these boys have learned in their years together, it’s how to rock!

The Festival of Russian Ballet features a diverse and stunning programme in three awe-inspiring acts. 

The auditions saw an amazing amount of talent walk through the doors making the casting process extremely difficult for Director James Kable.

A man of many talents, Hung Le is a violinist turned comedian and has featured in several popular Australian productions including The Wog Boy, Fat Pizza and True Love & Chaos.

Forget the Iron Chef, Ready, Steady, Cook and Huey – three of the best chefs on the Coast will conduct a Cooking Workshop live on stage in the Paradise Showroom when 3 Chefs Do Lunch at The Arts Centre Gold Coast on Saturday 3 September from 10.30am!

Director Tony Bartuccio of the world premiere musical Pyjamas in Paradise has put out a desperate call to the Gold Coast community. We need a poodle for Paradise!  Pyjamas in Paradise is the latest John-Michael Howson musical premiere at The Arts Centre Gold Coast and requires a real live poodle.

The Arts Centre Gold Coast is pleased to announce the Casting Call for the 2011 Youth Theatre Project of The Good Doctor written by Neil Simon.

An Evening of the Unexpected is in store for the Gold Coast when The Arts Centre Gold Coast welcomes Anthony Laye in The Basement, Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 September, 2011 at 7:30pm.