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“It’s different to other shows. It’s like a real TV show from the 1960’s. I haven’t seen anything like it before”! (Michelle K, 2024 audience member) The Robertson Brothers are thrilled to be returning with their new heart-warming and uplifting 1960’s Variety TV Show! Geoff and Ben Robertson are back as your charming and cheeky hosts for this nostalgic night of entertainment as they pay tribute to the musical giants of the 1960’s – The Beatles, Petula Clark, Del Shannon, Beach Boys, The Hollies, Bee Gees and the Everly Brothers. Variety TV Show fans will be excited to know the multi-talented Simon Brook McLachlan (from the Original Australian cast of Jersey Boys) will return in 2025 to thrill us with his very special tribute to Del Shannon. Also joining the Variety show this year is the amazing Cosima De Vito (Australian Idol) with her incredible tribute to Petula Clark.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
The Flaming Sambucas, returns to Port Pirie on the 30th anniversary of performing their acclaimed ABBA Gold Show with their "ABBA I Have a Dream Show". Over 50 years ago, Abba had a dream. And as a result of that dream, we were given a heartfelt message of love, of hope and of faith, delivered through timeless music. With authentic costuming Adelaide’s iconic Flaming Sambucas celebrate that dream, with all the greatest hits of the Swedish supergroup – Chiquatita, Gimme Gimme, The Winner Takes It All, SOS, Dancing Queen, Waterloo and so many more; songs that will instantly transport you back to those wonderful Abba years of the 70s and make you want to sing and smile. This show is presented in an original story-telling way and is guaranteed to lift your spirits and to touch your hearts.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Venue: Ballroom - Cabaret Style Seating Mornings At 2025, Morning Tea included in the Ticket Price What happens when you mix the world’s most iconic band with some of the slickest sounding musicians in SA? You get Beating Up The Beatles — a bold, brilliant cabaret show that will have you twisting, shouting, and hearing the Fab Four like never before. Multi-award winning cabaret artist Charlee Watt, backed by her fab band of multi-instrumentalists, shines fresh light on your favourite Beatles hits . Think Lennon & McCartney — with a deliciously jazzy twist. Even Beatles purists love this show. Channeling the spirit of jazz legends, Charlee breathes new life into the Beatles’ catalogue with funky grooves, smoky ballads, and swinging rhythms that get right under your skin. It's been over 60 years since Beatlemania hit Australia — and now it's time to fall in love all over again, in a whole new way. Image Credit: Mikaela Frick
Northern Festival Centre.
Ballroom
Commissioning Credit: Originally commissioned by Malthouse Theatre and co-presented by Malthouse Theatre and Belvoir Looking for Alibrandi By Vidya Rajan Based on the novel by Melina Marchetta Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking. Juggling grades, boys, and the claustrophobia of an overbearing nonna and saintly mother, Josie’s life becomes tangled in the webs of class, identity, and family history as she finds her place in a changing world. Iconic novel and cult movie, Looking for Alibrandi is the honest and empowered portrait of 1990s Mediterranean culture that spoke for the first time about systemic racism in Australia from a migrant perspective. It defined a generation and to this day resonates with those caught in the stranglehold of identity and othering in this country. Award-winning director Stephen Nicolazzo (Loaded, Merciless Gods) brought Melina Marchetta’s iconic best-selling novel - which she adapted into the cult 2000 movie - to the stage for the first time, where Vidya Rajan’s AWGIE nominated adaptation joined three generations of women in a passionate, heart wrenching, and unmissable rendering of the Australian classic. With live passata sauce making, traditional Italian music and a soundtrack of Australian pop classics, Looking for Alibrandi is a vibrant theatrical experience full of passion, laughs, and beauty. Now, as part of Brink’s next chapter, this hilarious, spirited and heart-warming production returns for a national tour starring original cast members Chanella Macri, Lucia Mastrantone, Jennifer Vuletic, Ashton Malcom, Riley Warner and Chris Asimos. Performed in English and Italian Director: Stephen Nicolazzo Writer: Vidya Rajan Set and Costume Design: Kate Davis Lighting Design: Katie Sfetkidis Sound Design: Daniel Nixon Musicians: Rosa Voto and Renato Vacerca Tarantella Choreography: Rosa Voto Dialect Coach: Paulo Bongiovanni Cultural and Language Consultant: Lucia Mastrantone ★★★★★ “Clever, heartening and well-crafted. Nicolazzo’s passion for the piece is palpable; his bold, stylised production is rich with symbolism but stark enough to allow the actors to give beautifully, distinctive performances full of detail and gravitas.” Theatre Matters ★★★★1/2 "This comical and beautifully honest look at cultural identity, class and trauma is brought to vivid life in director Stephen Nicolazzo and writer Vidya Rajan’s ridiculously enjoyable sunbeam of a production.” Arts Hub ★★★★ “Chanella Macri is perfectly cast” The AU Review ★★★★ “A heart-warming tale whose humour, honesty, radiant social relevance and narrative longevity can survive not only novel and film incarnations, but now, I’m delighted to report, a stage play too." Theatre Now “Dark and uncompromising. It will resonate with subsequent waves of migrants” The Australian “Achingly raw…painfully, beautifully rendered…Timeless” The Guardian Image Credit Daniel Boud
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Legendary singer-songwriter Graeme Connors takes The Road Less Travelled to South Australia on his My Lyrical Life Tour celebrating 50 years in the music industry 'My Lyrical Life' the book, contains 217 songs from the Mackay artist's pen, recorded by himself, or by artists including Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English, plus autobiographical reflections from various phases of his long, colourful career. The 'My Lyrical Life' live show sees the APRA, ARIA and multi-Golden Guitar Award winner showcase the lyrical element of his career, particularly the story songs that he wouldn't normally do with his big band at a festival. Compiling the book gave Graeme the chance to discover gems he hadn't revisited for decades, due to the sheer number of songs he's penned. Ranging from the '70s through to now, the songs showcase an incredible career that continues to shine a light on the Australian psyche, life and love, and world events. Look out for Graeme travelling at The Speed of Life in SA celebrating 'My Lyrical Life’.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
After selling out his 2024 shows, Australia's country music legend Lee Kernaghan is bringing his Boys From The Bush – The Concert to more towns around Australia in 2025. Lee Kernaghan burst onto the Australian music scene over three decades ago with a fresh approach of synthesising traditional country themes with his own experiences growing up in regional Australia. His unique style of Australian country music paying homage to our great land, its people, culture, and the hard-working lifestyle struck a chord with a younger generation of fans. Lee’s amazing career is one of trailblazing music making and a deep connection to his fans and regional communities. He continues to deliver exciting live concert productions by fusing arena-rock bravado with country music’s heart and soul, by joining the traditional country stories with real life on the land sensibilities and values, and in the process he continues to lead the pack in modernising and growing the genre and community that he fondly calls his mates. Classics including The Outback Club, Boys From The Bush, Hat Town, She’s My Ute, Australian Boy and Backroad Nation are the modern day anthems for generations of Australians living and working on the land. Lee’s 13 chart-topping albums and 3 Greatest Hits packages have delivered 40 #1 hit singles, 38 Golden Guitars, 4 ARIA’s and has been named Hitmaker Of The Decade twice. Through his work with regional communities in times of drought, fire and flood Lee was named Australian Of The Year in 2008. His sold out concert tours have cemented Lee Kernaghan as a touring juggernaut and one of the greatest live entertainers in Australia. Boys From The Bush – The Concert has been hailed as his biggest and most epic touring production to date and features Special Guests Robby Kernaghan, Tori Darke and Matt Cornell.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
“Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
A Windmill Theatre Company Production. Windmill Theatre Co is supported by the Government of South Australia and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body. Microscopic. Indestructible. (this is the tag line) Tardigrades… perhaps you’ve heard of them? Small but mighty, they have withstood multiple extinction periods, surviving boiling temperatures and the freezing temperatures of space. With a surprising cult following, some people call them ‘Water Bears’, others call them ‘Moss Piglets’. Moss Piglet is an explosive portrait of the world’s most resilient and curious critters. Taking young audiences from jelly-filled petri dishes to the depths of a volcano to Arctic glaciers to the moon, the work explodes the mysteries of the wildly weird tardigrade. Playful and thrilling, Moss Piglet is an epic new work about how even the tiniest of things can be the strongest. Think Bruce Willis in Die Hard… but teeny tiny with eight legs… who loves moss.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Free Entry Nunga Screen celebrates First Nations’ culture, stories and language through film; sharing stories of history, healing, belonging, community and connection to Country. The program consists of various short films across both scripted and unscripted documentary formats from First Nations filmmakers. Roughly half of the 90-minute program is suitable and engaging for young viewers and can be varied to suit any audience. Nunga Screen runs annually between Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week. Film program annouced soon. For tickets and further information visit countryarts.org.au Bookings Essential!
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
A fun, frivolous, easy going evening filled with laughs, sipping and hopefully little painting – Whether you’re a art lover, or stick figures feel like a bit of a stretch on your skills, sit, drink & follow along with Georgia in her step by step art class to create an acrylic piece. Join us in our ballroom for an evening not to be missed. Ticket includes a drink on arrival. Doors open ta 6:30pm for a 7pm start
Northern Festival Centre.
Ballroom Foyer
Spellbound is a groundbreaking magic and grand illusion show created by celebrated illusionist Anthony Street. Known for his innovative performances and creative vision, Anthony blends the mystique of magic and the thrill of grand illusions in this spectacular production. Starring Apollo Jackson, a multiple Got Talent finalist and Guinness World Record holder. Get ready to witness levitations, impossible vanishes, mentalism and a death-defying escape as the show pushes the boundaries of reality and distorts your senses. Set in a world where fantasy and reality collide, Spellbound takes audiences on an unforgettable journey through the realms of the impossible. From breathtaking levitation’s and jaw-dropping vanishings to stunning visual illusions that defy logic, each moment is carefully crafted to leave the audience in awe. The show combines cutting-edge stage technology with Anthony’s masterful artistry to create a dazzling display of wonder and amazement.Will you dare to believe your eyes?
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Sweeney Todd, is an infamous tale of an unjustly exiled barber. Set in the nineteenth century London, Sweeney is seeking vengeance again the lecherous judge, who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber business. Mrs Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the new integration of a ‘secret’ ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up……….and the carnage has only just begun
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Marvel Studios and a crew of indie veterans who sold out present Thunderbolts*, an irreverent team-up featuring depressed assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) alongside the MCU’s least anticipated band of misfits. The film also returns to the screen Marvel Cinematic Universe characters Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), in addition to some exciting new faces.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
“It’s different to other shows. It’s like a real TV show from the 1960’s. I haven’t seen anything like it before”! (Michelle K, 2024 audience member) The Robertson Brothers are thrilled to be returning with their new heart-warming and uplifting 1960’s Variety TV Show! Geoff and Ben Robertson are back as your charming and cheeky hosts for this nostalgic night of entertainment as they pay tribute to the musical giants of the 1960’s – The Beatles, Petula Clark, Del Shannon, Beach Boys, The Hollies, Bee Gees and the Everly Brothers. Variety TV Show fans will be excited to know the multi-talented Simon Brook McLachlan (from the Original Australian cast of Jersey Boys) will return in 2025 to thrill us with his very special tribute to Del Shannon. Also joining the Variety show this year is the amazing Cosima De Vito (Australian Idol) with her incredible tribute to Petula Clark.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
The Flaming Sambucas, returns to Port Pirie on the 30th anniversary of performing their acclaimed ABBA Gold Show with their "ABBA I Have a Dream Show". Over 50 years ago, Abba had a dream. And as a result of that dream, we were given a heartfelt message of love, of hope and of faith, delivered through timeless music. With authentic costuming Adelaide’s iconic Flaming Sambucas celebrate that dream, with all the greatest hits of the Swedish supergroup – Chiquatita, Gimme Gimme, The Winner Takes It All, SOS, Dancing Queen, Waterloo and so many more; songs that will instantly transport you back to those wonderful Abba years of the 70s and make you want to sing and smile. This show is presented in an original story-telling way and is guaranteed to lift your spirits and to touch your hearts.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Venue: Ballroom - Cabaret Style Seating Mornings At 2025, Morning Tea included in the Ticket Price What happens when you mix the world’s most iconic band with some of the slickest sounding musicians in SA? You get Beating Up The Beatles — a bold, brilliant cabaret show that will have you twisting, shouting, and hearing the Fab Four like never before. Multi-award winning cabaret artist Charlee Watt, backed by her fab band of multi-instrumentalists, shines fresh light on your favourite Beatles hits . Think Lennon & McCartney — with a deliciously jazzy twist. Even Beatles purists love this show. Channeling the spirit of jazz legends, Charlee breathes new life into the Beatles’ catalogue with funky grooves, smoky ballads, and swinging rhythms that get right under your skin. It's been over 60 years since Beatlemania hit Australia — and now it's time to fall in love all over again, in a whole new way. Image Credit: Mikaela Frick
Northern Festival Centre.
Ballroom
Commissioning Credit: Originally commissioned by Malthouse Theatre and co-presented by Malthouse Theatre and Belvoir Looking for Alibrandi By Vidya Rajan Based on the novel by Melina Marchetta Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking. Juggling grades, boys, and the claustrophobia of an overbearing nonna and saintly mother, Josie’s life becomes tangled in the webs of class, identity, and family history as she finds her place in a changing world. Iconic novel and cult movie, Looking for Alibrandi is the honest and empowered portrait of 1990s Mediterranean culture that spoke for the first time about systemic racism in Australia from a migrant perspective. It defined a generation and to this day resonates with those caught in the stranglehold of identity and othering in this country. Award-winning director Stephen Nicolazzo (Loaded, Merciless Gods) brought Melina Marchetta’s iconic best-selling novel - which she adapted into the cult 2000 movie - to the stage for the first time, where Vidya Rajan’s AWGIE nominated adaptation joined three generations of women in a passionate, heart wrenching, and unmissable rendering of the Australian classic. With live passata sauce making, traditional Italian music and a soundtrack of Australian pop classics, Looking for Alibrandi is a vibrant theatrical experience full of passion, laughs, and beauty. Now, as part of Brink’s next chapter, this hilarious, spirited and heart-warming production returns for a national tour starring original cast members Chanella Macri, Lucia Mastrantone, Jennifer Vuletic, Ashton Malcom, Riley Warner and Chris Asimos. Performed in English and Italian Director: Stephen Nicolazzo Writer: Vidya Rajan Set and Costume Design: Kate Davis Lighting Design: Katie Sfetkidis Sound Design: Daniel Nixon Musicians: Rosa Voto and Renato Vacerca Tarantella Choreography: Rosa Voto Dialect Coach: Paulo Bongiovanni Cultural and Language Consultant: Lucia Mastrantone ★★★★★ “Clever, heartening and well-crafted. Nicolazzo’s passion for the piece is palpable; his bold, stylised production is rich with symbolism but stark enough to allow the actors to give beautifully, distinctive performances full of detail and gravitas.” Theatre Matters ★★★★1/2 "This comical and beautifully honest look at cultural identity, class and trauma is brought to vivid life in director Stephen Nicolazzo and writer Vidya Rajan’s ridiculously enjoyable sunbeam of a production.” Arts Hub ★★★★ “Chanella Macri is perfectly cast” The AU Review ★★★★ “A heart-warming tale whose humour, honesty, radiant social relevance and narrative longevity can survive not only novel and film incarnations, but now, I’m delighted to report, a stage play too." Theatre Now “Dark and uncompromising. It will resonate with subsequent waves of migrants” The Australian “Achingly raw…painfully, beautifully rendered…Timeless” The Guardian Image Credit Daniel Boud
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Legendary singer-songwriter Graeme Connors takes The Road Less Travelled to South Australia on his My Lyrical Life Tour celebrating 50 years in the music industry 'My Lyrical Life' the book, contains 217 songs from the Mackay artist's pen, recorded by himself, or by artists including Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English, plus autobiographical reflections from various phases of his long, colourful career. The 'My Lyrical Life' live show sees the APRA, ARIA and multi-Golden Guitar Award winner showcase the lyrical element of his career, particularly the story songs that he wouldn't normally do with his big band at a festival. Compiling the book gave Graeme the chance to discover gems he hadn't revisited for decades, due to the sheer number of songs he's penned. Ranging from the '70s through to now, the songs showcase an incredible career that continues to shine a light on the Australian psyche, life and love, and world events. Look out for Graeme travelling at The Speed of Life in SA celebrating 'My Lyrical Life’.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
After selling out his 2024 shows, Australia's country music legend Lee Kernaghan is bringing his Boys From The Bush – The Concert to more towns around Australia in 2025. Lee Kernaghan burst onto the Australian music scene over three decades ago with a fresh approach of synthesising traditional country themes with his own experiences growing up in regional Australia. His unique style of Australian country music paying homage to our great land, its people, culture, and the hard-working lifestyle struck a chord with a younger generation of fans. Lee’s amazing career is one of trailblazing music making and a deep connection to his fans and regional communities. He continues to deliver exciting live concert productions by fusing arena-rock bravado with country music’s heart and soul, by joining the traditional country stories with real life on the land sensibilities and values, and in the process he continues to lead the pack in modernising and growing the genre and community that he fondly calls his mates. Classics including The Outback Club, Boys From The Bush, Hat Town, She’s My Ute, Australian Boy and Backroad Nation are the modern day anthems for generations of Australians living and working on the land. Lee’s 13 chart-topping albums and 3 Greatest Hits packages have delivered 40 #1 hit singles, 38 Golden Guitars, 4 ARIA’s and has been named Hitmaker Of The Decade twice. Through his work with regional communities in times of drought, fire and flood Lee was named Australian Of The Year in 2008. His sold out concert tours have cemented Lee Kernaghan as a touring juggernaut and one of the greatest live entertainers in Australia. Boys From The Bush – The Concert has been hailed as his biggest and most epic touring production to date and features Special Guests Robby Kernaghan, Tori Darke and Matt Cornell.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
“Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
A Windmill Theatre Company Production. Windmill Theatre Co is supported by the Government of South Australia and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body. Microscopic. Indestructible. (this is the tag line) Tardigrades… perhaps you’ve heard of them? Small but mighty, they have withstood multiple extinction periods, surviving boiling temperatures and the freezing temperatures of space. With a surprising cult following, some people call them ‘Water Bears’, others call them ‘Moss Piglets’. Moss Piglet is an explosive portrait of the world’s most resilient and curious critters. Taking young audiences from jelly-filled petri dishes to the depths of a volcano to Arctic glaciers to the moon, the work explodes the mysteries of the wildly weird tardigrade. Playful and thrilling, Moss Piglet is an epic new work about how even the tiniest of things can be the strongest. Think Bruce Willis in Die Hard… but teeny tiny with eight legs… who loves moss.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Free Entry Nunga Screen celebrates First Nations’ culture, stories and language through film; sharing stories of history, healing, belonging, community and connection to Country. The program consists of various short films across both scripted and unscripted documentary formats from First Nations filmmakers. Roughly half of the 90-minute program is suitable and engaging for young viewers and can be varied to suit any audience. Nunga Screen runs annually between Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week. Film program annouced soon. For tickets and further information visit countryarts.org.au Bookings Essential!
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
A fun, frivolous, easy going evening filled with laughs, sipping and hopefully little painting – Whether you’re a art lover, or stick figures feel like a bit of a stretch on your skills, sit, drink & follow along with Georgia in her step by step art class to create an acrylic piece. Join us in our ballroom for an evening not to be missed. Ticket includes a drink on arrival. Doors open ta 6:30pm for a 7pm start
Northern Festival Centre.
Ballroom Foyer
Spellbound is a groundbreaking magic and grand illusion show created by celebrated illusionist Anthony Street. Known for his innovative performances and creative vision, Anthony blends the mystique of magic and the thrill of grand illusions in this spectacular production. Starring Apollo Jackson, a multiple Got Talent finalist and Guinness World Record holder. Get ready to witness levitations, impossible vanishes, mentalism and a death-defying escape as the show pushes the boundaries of reality and distorts your senses. Set in a world where fantasy and reality collide, Spellbound takes audiences on an unforgettable journey through the realms of the impossible. From breathtaking levitation’s and jaw-dropping vanishings to stunning visual illusions that defy logic, each moment is carefully crafted to leave the audience in awe. The show combines cutting-edge stage technology with Anthony’s masterful artistry to create a dazzling display of wonder and amazement.Will you dare to believe your eyes?
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Sweeney Todd, is an infamous tale of an unjustly exiled barber. Set in the nineteenth century London, Sweeney is seeking vengeance again the lecherous judge, who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber business. Mrs Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the new integration of a ‘secret’ ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up……….and the carnage has only just begun
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium
Marvel Studios and a crew of indie veterans who sold out present Thunderbolts*, an irreverent team-up featuring depressed assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) alongside the MCU’s least anticipated band of misfits. The film also returns to the screen Marvel Cinematic Universe characters Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), in addition to some exciting new faces.
Northern Festival Centre.
Auditorium