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After an absence of three years, the Australian Pops Orchestra returns to GPAC this year with not one, but three inspiring shows.

Times of My Life, a new play by Tony Sheldon and Toni Lamond, is more than a history of Australian showbiz. It is a candid yet humorous autobiographical story of Lamond’s life in the entertainment world with music, song and dialogue that is honest and inspirational.

shaken+stirred @ THE BLAKI, GPAC’s winter series of four very different shows in the intimate surrounds of the Blakiston Theatre, comes to a climax with The Burlesque Hour, a tantalising blend of circus, striptease and theatre.

Enter a world of espionage, intrigue and betrayal when Malthouse Theatre’s production of The Spook comes to Geelong Performing Arts Centre for a limited season of four performances from July 31 to August 2.

shaken+stirred @ THE BLAKI, GPAC’s winter series of four very different shows in the intimate surrounds of the Blakiston Theatre, continues with The Pitch, a hilarious satire depicting the trials and tribulations of trying to crack the big time in Hollywood.

June 30 marks the end of an era when one of GPAC’s longest-serving staff members, usher Nola Wright, takes her final bow after 26 years of unfaltering service.

shaken+stirred @ THE BLAKI, GPAC’s winter series of four very different shows, continues in July with another exceptional event to warm your imagination and dazzle your senses.

The annual splash!dance Festival is a four-day celebration of all things dance-related, offering a broad range of traditional, modern and popular dance classes, performances and workshops.

This winter at GPAC, warm your imagination and dazzle your senses with Shaken + Stirred @ The Blaki, a series of four shows that are a little…left of centre. In the intimate surrounds of the Blakiston Theatre, prepare to get up close and personal with Shaken + Stirred @ The Blaki.

A tale of fitting in, finding yourself and the importance of family, The Arrival is the story of Aki, a man who leaves his wife and child in order to make a new life in a city far across the sea.

The finale of Musical Mornings Season One 2008 promises to be spectacular with A Day at the Great Music Hall, taking us on a welcome journey back to “The Good Ol’ Days” of 1895, with men in white tie and tails and ladies in crinolines.

The Melbourne Theatre Company returns to GPAC in May with its production of John Buchan and Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.

A daring plan to seize the day and escape from lonely lives makes for an amusing and touching night of theatre in Heroes, an Olivier Award-winning comedy of camaraderie.

The 2008 Alcoa Theatre Season continues with two fabulous new productions, 'Heroes' and 'The 39 Steps'. To celebrate, GPAC are offering the ‘Heroes Pack’ – a special ticket package allowing you to see both of these wonderful shows and save $17.60!

This year the Alcoa Poppykettle Festival has been expanded to a three-day event, providing more fun-filled concerts, films, workshops, singing and dancing than ever before.

A new festival is set to bounce through Central Geelong and the waterfront in the March school holidays, bringing hands-on family fun and a variety of performances that will delight, entertain and amaze.

GPAC proudly presents it's new quarterly "what's on" magazine.

THE WRITE STUFF playwriting competition gives aspiring playwrights the chance to have their new one-act plays workshopped, staged and possibly toured in 2009.

The first 300 tickets sold on Saturday 12 January for that evening's performance will be at the special discount price of $20 each.

December promises to be a hugely entertaining month at GPAC, and now an already jam-packed calendar adds three very special events: the launch of the Alcoa Theatre Season for 2008; the launch of the Geelong Living Library; and an exclusive preview of Essential Theatre's production of 'Twelfth Night'.

After a tremendously successful 2007, with the biggest subscription numbers to date, GPAC is getting set to unveil Alcoa Theatre Season 2008, promising another varied and exhilarating line-up of world-class productions.

The Alcoa Theatre Season 2007 is set to wind up for a big finish at GPAC with a new touring version of David Williamson’s The Club starring celebrated actor, John Wood.

A star-studded concert will help launch an exciting new partnership between Geelong Performing Arts Centre and local theatre company, Essential Theatre. In a rare public performance, Geelong band, Madhouse, will take centre stage and groove the afternoon away. Special guests include leading lady of musical theatre Marina Prior, award-winning actress Libby Tanner and Geelong’s own tenor Tim McCallum. The concert will be held from 2-5pm and bookings are essential as limited tickets are available at $20 each. For bookings phone 5225 1200.

Alcoa 2007 Theatre Season continues at Geelong Performing Arts Centre (GPAC) with Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Ying Tong: A Walk With the Goons – a fabulously funny and deeply moving production centred on the legendary radio comedy program, The Goon Show.

A popular Geelong children's program will kick-off for another year next month with an enchanting production of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

Presented by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the ninth massive Comedy Festival Roadshow is packing up the Melbourne camp and setting off to take Australia (and beyond) by storm, making a stop at GPAC on June 23.

International recording artist Xavier Rudd announces a very special performance to celebrate the launch of his latest and proudest release “White Moth” out June 2nd on Universal Music. Xavier gets back to his roots and the rooms that supported him in his earlier days to celebrate up close and personal with his fans at the Geelong Performing Arts Centre on June 3, a day after the release of his new album

Swing, tango, waltz, foxtrot, cha-cha, contemporary. Learning to dance is all the rage.

Welcome to GPAC's new web site. There are lots of new features. Try clicking on 'What's On' left of screen and then view the list of events by month, genre or alphabetically.

No toil and trouble in Bell Shakespeare performance.

More than 20 years ago GT's Amanda Zacharia was assigned to interview Prisoner star Maggie Kirkpatrick. An enduring friendship began. The pair recently caught up with eachother in Hobart, where Maggie was touring Shoe-Horn Sonata

In 1942, 65 Australian Army nurses were trapped in Singapore when the Japanese invaded. They were the first Australian women to serve in battle...and the first to die. The Shoe-Horn Sonata, featuring Belinda Giblin and Maggie Kirkpatrick, is a play about those women and in particular, the enduring friendship of two of them, Sheila and Bridie.

Lust for power and the evil within will be explored when Bell Shakespeare Company returns to Geelong to stage the classic tragedy Macbeth next week