Stage Briefs

It is with real sadness that the Board and Staff of Platform Youth Theatre announce the company will formally cease operations effective the 31st of August 2016 because, as of this date, we will not have the funds to continue.

The demise of this long standing youth arts resource has come about within the context of significant shifts in Federal funding priorities and cuts - more specifically the extinction of priority funding for youth and young emerging artist programs at the Australia Council for The Arts.

Million Dollar Quartet, the Broadway and West End musical inspired by the true story of the famous recording session that brought together icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkinsfor the first and only time for one incredible night, is set to tour Australia from December 8, 2016.

Winner of six TONY Awards including Best Original Score, The Light In The Piazza will receive a Melbourne season at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse for 2 weeks only from 28th October. Tickets on sale from Ticketmaster on Thursday 28th July.

The 2016 Adelaide Festival generated an estimated gross expenditure of $78.3 million for the state – an increase of 22 per cent in just two years, the highest result in the festival’s history.

19,800 visitors - almost 30 per cent of total attendees - came from interstate or overseas with visitor bed nights increasing to 133,321. Visitor related expenditure was up 24 per cent to a record $28.2 million – a 94 per cent increase on 2014’s figures.