My Radio Heart Returns Re-Imagined to NORPA
Brilliant performance piece featuring electronic music ensemble Tralala Blip returns to NORPA, re-imagined and ready for shows in Brisbane and Melbourne. Superheroes, electronica, comic books, gaming...
View ArticleLionel Shriver in Conversation with David Leser
Arguably the most perceptive and topical author of our times discussing her new novel The Mandibles. Join Lionel Shriver, Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin in conversation with...
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New NORPA Theatre Work Delights Children During Book Week
NORPA creates new immersive theatre work for children taking them on a Journey to an Unnamed World To celebrate Book Week (22-26 Aug) more than 500 school children from across the Northern Rivers...
View ArticleNORPA 2017 Season Launch
The NORPA 2017 Season Launch will be held on Thursday 10 November — much earlier than our usual launch date in February. This brings us in line with other major performing arts centres, as well as our...
View ArticlePAUL CAPSIS ‘Addicted to the Nightlife’
Paul Capsis needs little introduction. His voice has been described as “an act of God”; like Ziggy Stardust on LSD, the mesmerising performer is a gender-bending, gospel-shrieking force of nature. Be...
View ArticleNORPA’s Dreamland reaches out to new audiences
NORPA’s latest theatre work Dreamland, performed at Eureka Hall, has wrapped up a sell-out three week season and is being hailed by critics and patrons alike as one of NORPA’s best original works,...
View ArticleNORPA kicks off 2017 with five shows in March!
NORPA hits the ground running in March with the Lismore Laughs comedy festival featuring Tom Gleeson, Frank Woodley and Andy Saunders (10-11 March); US songstress Martha Wainwright (18 March) and an...
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Tubular Bells for Two at NORPA – Saturday 25 March, 7:30pm
One classic album, two men, too many instruments… Tubular Bells for Two! Two blokes juggle over 20 instruments live on stage in a spellbinding performance. A multi-award winning sell-out hit at...
View ArticleBe your own conductor with Australian Chamber Orchestra Virtual
Your chance to conduct the Australian Chamber Orchestra with ACO Virtual. Imagine standing on a stage surrounded by the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s virtuoso musicians, watching bows and fingers fly,...
View ArticleGreat history and great theatre in Coranderrk at NORPA
Coranderrk is great theatre and great history. In the neglected storehouse of Australian history sits this definitive story. At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the men and women of the...
View ArticleJohn Safran in conversation with Bec Mac at NORPA
John Safran, a Paladin dwarf and an ISIS supporter walk into a Catholic Church. Neo-Nazis are on the same side as the Jews. Pauline Hanson denies she was ever against Asian immigration… Welcome to...
View ArticleOpera Australia presents Lismore Flood Relief Concert
Opera Australia is putting on a special fundraising concert to support NORPA’s rebuild after the flood devastated the entire bottom floor of Lismore City Hall leaving the theatre company without an...
View ArticleNORPA announces team of Associate Artists to help shape contemporary theatre...
An impressive team of highly skilled theatre makers has joined Northern NSW based theatre company NORPA as Associate Artists to deliver a greatly increased creative program. Janis Balodis, Jade Dewi,...
View ArticleAustralian Chamber Orchestra Collective presents Mozart & Brahms – one...
Ten years ago, ACO Collective began its musical journey across the country. In celebration of this milestone the 17-piece string ensemble, which joins Australia’s most talented and dynamic emerging...
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Spare Parts Puppet Theatre The Arrival at NORPA
Simply exquisite theatre. NORPA and the Macadamia Castle are thrilled to present Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s adaptation of acclaimed illustrator/author Shaun Tan’s story The Arrival – a truly warm and...
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Lady Beatle starring Naomi Price
“A stroke of genius… Fans of The Beatles will love the music, fans of cabaret will adore Price’s energy and emotional range” – Australian Stage Following her sell-out Adele show Rumour Has It last...
View ArticleDjurra: A NORPA Production 29 November – 2 December
A new dance theatre work directed by Kirk Page and inspired by a Bundjalung creation story. Premiere season at Artstate NSW. A mother calls her broken son home on the waves. Something is coming. The...
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NORPA 2018 SEASON – NOW ON SALE
This year, we’re venturing even deeper into the wild, as we confront all kinds of animals, truths, and potentially the wilder parts of ourselves. With thought provoking and challenging performances —...
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