GOLDEN [LIVE music]

All that glitters is gold in this glistening musical mixtape from the award winning creators of Christmas Actually and There’s Something About Music.

SAT 28 MAY 

7.30PM 

GOLDEN 

Luke Kennedy & Irena Lysiuk

[LIVE music] on stage

GOLDEN unites superstar vocalists 

Luke Kennedy (Swing On This, The Voice AU) 

Irena Lysiuk (Your Song, Are You Lonesome Tonight), with piano virtuoso Damian Sim, for a musical celebration of contemporary music’s golden hits.

Journey with these world-class artists through a treasure trove of Hollywood and Broadway’s most-loved soundtracks and relive iconic music moments from your favourite films and stage shows, including My Fair Lady, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, An Officer and a Gentleman, A Star Is Born and many more.

Promising sparkling original arrangements, powerhouse vocals and a setlist that’s pure gold, The Little Red Company’s GOLDEN will dazzle and delight.

BOOK NOW $25; Child $12; Conc $15; Student $15

Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy shot to international attention in 2013 as Ricky Martin’s grand finalist on season two of television phenomenon, The Voice Australia. As series runner-up, Luke achieved a #1 single on the iTunes charts with of ‘Time To Say Goodbye’. His first solo album ‘A Time For Us’ debuted at #6 on the ARIA charts. Luke is a founding member of big band swing superstar Swing On This and was a member of Australian classical crossover sensation The TEN Tenors. For The Little Red Company, Luke has appeared in Rumour Has It, From Johnny to Jack, Christmas Actually, The IsoLate Late Show, There’s Something About Music and Your Song.

Irena Lysiuk
Irena is a versatile opera singer, musical theatre and pop singer. Since graduating the Queensland Conservatorium in with a Grad. Dip. in Music Studies and a Bachelor of Music, Irena has worked extensively with Opera Queensland and The Little Red Company. Irena played Gretel in OQ and
shake & stir’s school touring production Hansel and Gretel and Adina in Fizz!, as well as chorus roles in OQ’s mainstage QPAC productions including Ruddigore, Don Giovanni, A Flowering Tree, Tosca and Orpheus & Eurydice.
In 2021, she embarked on a 27-venue tour in OQ’s Are You Lonesome Tonight. For The Little Red Company, Irena has appeared in The IsoLate Late Show, Christmas Actually and Your Song.

Darren Coggan’s CAMPFIRE

 FROM THE STAR OF 'PEACE TRAIN THE CAT STEVENS STORY'

SUN 15 MAY 2PM

Darren Coggan's CAMPFIRE [LIVE] 

country music concert. 

Darren Coggan is one of Australia’s most exciting and diverse artists, a masterful storyteller with a knack of weaving fascinating and perceptive tales through his songs. Darren welcomes us to his campfire, articulating moments of laughter and reflection through timeless tunes that the whole world sang along with.

In an intimate performance, as if around a campfire, Darren introduces songs from his award-winning albums and celebrates the artists he has remarkably re-created throughout his career, including, Glen Campbell, James Taylor, John Denver and of course his hugely successful and critically acclaimed portrait of Cat Stevens, 'Peace Train - The Cat Stevens Story'.

From humble beginnings, strumming a guitar by ‘the ‘Bidgee’ river in his beloved hometown of Wagga Wagga, to selling out The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall with Peace Train, Darren has forged a unique, diverse career that has seen him embrace the Australian Country Music, Musical Theatre and Television industries with aplomb.

Grab a cuppa and settle in for a sing a long around Darren Coggan's Campfire.

BOOK NOW    $25; Child $12; Conc $15; Student $15

Reviews:

“It was the boy from Wagga Wagga, Darren Coggan, who emerged as the evening’s king of hearts. Coggan has a fresh, powerful, expressive voice, and he just oozed style.” THE AUSTRALIAN

“Coggan’s musical story-telling is outstanding, as is his singing and playing." SUNDAY HERALD SUN

1RAR band fundraiser concert SAT 14 MAY 2.30pm

support Mental Health in the Outback projects

1RAR band fundraiser concert

SAT 14 MAY 2.30pm

$5 donation - ticket at the door – all proceeds to Lions.

Sausage sizzle before the show from 1.30pm outside the theatre…

Join the Band of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, on their regional Queensland tour.

A wide variety of music will be on show, so all musical tastes are guaranteed to be satisfied, performed by a 25 piece big band.

Enjoy 1RAR's first regional shows since March 2020, and support a great cause.

hosted by Lions Clubs 
with thanks to Charters Towers Regional Council

MEDEA [LIVE drama] by Shock Therapy

Drama  LIVE on stage 

60 mins

Award winning Qld performance makers Shock Therapy Productions put their signature touch on this timely Greek Classic. 

One of the great plays of the western canon, this psychological thriller follows the story of Medea, her world unravelling as she attempts to navigate the pressures of court politics, family, and discrimination within the patriarchy. Themes that are, unfortunately, just as relevant today. 

 MEDEA  [LIVE]
by Shock Therapy 

Tuesday 12 pm
10 MAY 2022

one only performance

A stylised and minimal production that combines traditional Greek Theatre, with Epic and Physical Theatre, and multiple role playing to deliver an intense and gripping experience accompanied by a thumping contemporary soundtrack.

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. 

The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason ... discover how this story ends ...

"Shock Therapy Productions has birthed a new era of performance-making"
 - Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane

BOOK NOW

$20 | Conc $18 | Student $15

School groups : email to book. comp teacher group 10+

Earlybird before 31/12/21: Student $10 

A STITCH IN TIME [M] QCWA Fundraiser Movie Event

Join us for a special 

QCWA Fundraiser Movie Event 

 

2PM Sunday 

24 April 2022

A STITCH IN TIME [M]

A heart-warming story about a former dressmaker, who reinvents herself after befriending a young Chinese fashion designer.

Enjoy light refreshments before the movie from 1pm
home baked biscuits & cake, tea & coffee in the foyer.

Candy Bar open with the best popcorn, choc tops, and more


Invite your friends for a fun afternoon to support a great cause

Tickets $20 includes $10 donation

BOOK NOW www.worldtheatre.com.au

 

Lots to explore and enjoy: 

Introduction: Critics love A STITCH IN TIME

Website: www.aStitchInTimeMovie.com/vox-pops

Offical Trailer: A STITCH IN TIME trailer link

A CURRENT AFFAIR: Aussie filmmaker realises dream on shoestring budget

Endorsed by Stratton: 4 stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWC0c-Ucj9c

A STITCH IN TIME: SEW GOOD | Sydney Arts Guide

CELTIC ILLUSION REIMAGINED [LIVE] CANCELLED

Dance,  Illusion  - 110 mins - LIVE on stage

 CELTIC ILLUSION REIMAGINED [LIVE]

10 year anniversary tour

CHARTERS TOWERS CANCELLED

DUE TO SLOW BOOKINGS, CELTIC ILLUSION HAVE DECIDED NOT TO INCLUDE CHARTERS TOWERS IN THIER NATIONAL TOUR.

If you have booked tickets, please contact 

The World Theatre during office hours 

to organise your refund.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

Immerse yourself in the Irish Dance and Grand Illusion sensation that has taken Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada, and the USA by storm, on its nationwide tour for 2022. 

This is Celtic Illusion, Reimagined! Even fans who have seen our previous shows won't dare miss the Reimagined tour that is set to raise the bar once again.

An exhilarating production which broke barriers by fusing unparalleled art forms, and is more spectacular than ever before. 

With new spellbinding illusions, entrancing music and choreography, Celtic Illusion is an awe-inspiring night of family entertainment. 

Starring the multi talented former lead dancer of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance and Star Illusionist Anthony Street, with Georgia May, a marvel in both dance and Illusion. 

These impeccable performers lead a cast of champion dancers recruited from renowned productions across the world, such as Lord of the Dance and Riverdance, into a theatrical masterpiece that will have you mesmerised from the moment the curtain is raised.

  special offer $69 all tix 
$79; Child 3-12 yrs $69; Concession $74; Student  $69
Family Ticket (2AD+2CH) $290

Call to book your Group 5+ $74

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY [M]

134m . Biography Drama Music

Wednesday 13/4 - 10:30am
Saturday 16/4 - 6:30pm
Sunday 17/4 - 1:30pm   FINAL

The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).

Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Anthony McCarten (story by), Peter Morgan (story by)
Stars: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee

Cinema Tickets: 

SCHOOL HOLIDAY SPECIAL ALL $8 3yr+ 

Family (2A+ 2Ch) $32 

watch the trailer

M  Coarse language

LEGO DC: SHAZAM! MAGIC & MONSTERS [PG]

81m . Animated Action Adventure

Wednesday 13/4 - 10:45am
Saturday 16/4 - 1:45pm
Sunday 17/4 - 1:45pm  FINAL

When the boy hero Shazam is offered to join the Justice League he is reluctant about it, but when his rivals the Monster Society put the League in peril he's the only one who can save them.

Director: Matt Peters
Writers: Jeremy Adams, C.C. Beck (comic and characters)
Stars: Sean Astin, Dee Bradley Baker, Troy Baker

Cinema Tickets: 

SCHOOL HOLIDAY SPECIAL ALL $8 3yr+ 

Family (2A+ 2Ch) $32 

watch the trailer

PG Mild themes and animated violence

MY SPY [PG]

99m . Action Comedy

Thursday 14/4 - 10:45am
Saturday 16/4 - 6:45pm
Sunday 17/4 - 3:30pm   FINAL

A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.

Director: Peter Segal
Writers: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber

Stars: Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Parisa Fitz-Henley

watch the trailer

Cinema Tickets:
SCHOOL HOLIDAY SPECIAL ALL $8 3yr+
Family (2A+ 2Ch) $32 

PG  Mild themes, action violence and coarse language

SCOOB! [PG]

93m . Animated Adventure Comedy

Thursday 7/4 - 10:45am
Friday 8/4 - 6:45pm
Saturday 9/4 - 6:45pm
Sunday 10/4 - 3:45pm  FINAL

Scooby and the gang face their most challenging mystery ever: a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. As they race to stop this dogpocalypse, the gang discovers that Scooby has an epic destiny greater than anyone imagined.

Director: Tony Cervone
Writers: Adam Sztykiel (screenplay), Jack C. Donaldson (screenplay), Derek Elliott (screenplay)
Stars: Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaacs

watch the trailer

Cinema Tickets: 

SCHOOL HOLIDAY SPECIAL ALL $8 3yr+ 

Family (2A+ 2Ch) $32 

PG Mild supernatural themes, animated violence and coarse language