As the new year unfolds, Home of the Arts presents an exciting lineup of events that promise to captivate audiences with diverse performances. From Amy Shark's acoustic 'Songs & Stories' tour to the classical Chinese dance of Shen Yun, and the vibrant Ministry of Sound Classical, each event offers a unique glimpse into different art forms and cultures. Whether you're a fan of alt-pop, classical music, or compelling storytelling, there's something for everyone in this stellar collection of upcoming events.

An Unforgettable Journey Through Arts and Music: Upcoming Events at Home of the Arts

The Home of the Arts (HOTA) in Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia, is set to become a hub of cultural excitement with a series of captivating events lined up. From the introspective dance work 'Marrow' to the nostalgic musical journey of '1969 - A Year in Music,' audiences are in for a treat. Other highlights include the theatrical adaptation of 'Looking for Alibrandi,' the comedic chaos of 'Mr Red Light,' and the epic 'The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale.' With such a diverse lineup, HOTA promises an unforgettable experience for all art enthusiasts.

A Vibrant Tapestry of Art: Exploring Upcoming Events at HOTA

The Home of the Arts (HOTA) is set to be the epicenter of cultural exploration and artistic celebration in 2025. From thought-provoking theatrical productions such as 'Crossing the Divide' to the electrifying beats of 'Ministry of Sound Classical', HOTA offers a diverse range of events that cater to every taste. Join us as we delve into the myriad of performances and exhibitions that highlight the creative genius of artists and the vibrant culture of Australia, ensuring an unforgettable year ahead.

Exploring Australia's Cultural Tapestry: A Dive into HOTA's 2025 Event Lineup

At the Home of the Arts (HOTA) in Surfers Paradise, a dynamic lineup of events is set to captivate audiences. From the muscular dance work 'Marrow' that challenges cultural narratives, to the nostalgic '1969 - A Year in Music' by The Honey Sliders, each event promises a unique experience. The theatrical adaptation of 'Looking for Alibrandi' explores themes of identity, while 'Mr Red Light' offers a comedic twist on life's unpredictability. With productions like 'The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale' and 'Macbeth,' HOTA ensures there's something for everyone, including younger audiences with 'Laboratory of Light' and 'Imagine Live.'

A Kaleidoscope of Stories: Unveiling the Vibrant Events at HOTA

HOTA, Home of the Arts Presents ‘IMAGINE LIVE’ by Jolyon James based on the book “Imagine” by Alison Lester, Produced by Jolyon James and NCM.

Imagine Live

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Part theatre and part interactive research project, Laboratory of Light provides a theatrical lens through which teachers and students can engage with the Science syllabus.

Welcome to the curious and wonder-filled world of Luminous, a backyard scientist who is fascinated by light. Where does light come from? How does it travel? What is it made of?

Laboratory of Light

The longest running comedy in London, the smash-hit Olivier and Tony-Award-winning, The Play That Goes Wrong, is coming to the Gold Coast! A hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes, things go from bad to utterly disastrous when The Cornley Drama Society performs a classic murder mystery. Complete with an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it’s “A RIOTOUS EXPLOSION OF COMEDY!” (The Daily Beast) and “TONS OF FUN FOR ALL AGES!” (HuffPost). The New York Times calls The Play That Goes Wrong “A GUT-BUSTING HIT”, and the New York Post has just one word for you: “GO!” 

The Play That Goes Wrong

Experience the premiere of a fresh, captivating production of Shakespeare’s classic, Macbeth. This dynamic new adaptation brings a fresh perspective to one of literature's greatest plays.

An unexpected prophecy at the close of a devastating war sends a national hero and his brilliant wife on a feverish and murderous quest for absolute power. With startlingly beautiful language, Shakespeare’s revered tragedy tears open the thin fabric between the temporal and magical worlds. This muscular, contemporary production looks at today’s world through Macbeth’s eyes – an epoch where double speak is rife, where violence is a modern ecstasy and true loyalty is our most valuable commodity.

Macbeth

The production will star some of Australia’s most acclaimed musical theatre performers and actor-musicians including Jemma Rix as Galadriel, Ian Stenlake as Saruman, Rob Mallett as Strider and Rarmian Newton as Frodo Baggins.

The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale

Wild slapstick, the meaning of life, falling in love – suddenly the pie shop is a place where anything can happen.

Mr Red Light is a man who attracts bad luck. So naturally, when he tries to rob a bank he fails miserably – and ends up in a pie shop dealing with three very uncooperative hostages and the world’s worst police negotiator.

Mr Red Light

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.  

Looking for Alibrandi

The Honey Sliders are bringing the sights and sounds of 1969 back to life - live on stage, in front of a vivid screen projection. The Honey Sliders are playing the soundtrack to the events that marked the end of the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century. 

1969 - A Year in Music

Set on a shared ground where politics and identity are not our totality, Marrow is a muscular dance work that sees Australian Dance Theatre’s incredible ensemble tangle with layers of smoke and light to disassemble our dominant cultural narratives and reveal the truth of our past.

Created by Daniel Riley in collaboration with ADT’s Company Artists, senior Kaurna/Ngarrindjeri Elder Uncle Moogy Sumner AM, composer James Howard (SAVAGE), Matthew Adey (THE HUM) and Ailsa Patterson (Tracker), Marrow sees the company delve deeper into the falsehoods and alienation at the core of our shared history.


Marrow

Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey have today announced they will be taking their much lauded musical collaboration, Fanning Dempsey National Park, on tour to regional Australia in April and May following their sell-out tour across Australia’s capital cities in 2024.

Following a Byron Bay show for Great Southern Nights on April 3, ‘The Deluge Regional Tour’ will kick off in Cairns on May 1, with stops in Hobart, Ballarat, Geelong, Bendigo, Newcastle, Thirroul, Canberra, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast, before finishing on the Gold Coast on May 24.

Fanning Dempsey National Park

Join multi-award-winning multi-instrumentalist Adam Page on a wild musical ride that will explain just how awesome it is to be a musician, proving there’s a musician in all of us – whether you know it or not! Using everything from pots and pans to soulful saxophone, Page weaves the honks and bashes of a gazillion different things into a tapestry of sounds using looping pedals to create musical mayhem for the whole family! 

I Wanna Be a Musician

Ministry of Sound's biggest show, CLASSICAL, returns to its home on the Gold Coast, Home of the Arts, after consecutive years of epic sold-out shows! Immerse yourself in the greatest moments in dance music and experience a brand-new show + set list on Sat 3 May 2025 (Labour Day Weekend).

Back by popular demand, Ministry of Sound Classical returns this year with a sunset festival experience to celebrate the greatest moments in dance music with an incredible lineup of DJs culminating in our stunning CLASSICAL performance by the Ministry of Sound Orchestra.

Ministry of Sound Classical 2025

Outdoor Stage

Liam, a scholarship student from the Torres Strait is on his high school History excursion - a two-day trek across the Great Dividing Range, learning about the expedition by Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson. As their guide Lionel draws attention to events often left out of the history books, tensions mount when Liam’s friend Max refuses to see how European settlement created anything but a pathway to progress for a newly forming nation. CROSSING THE DIVIDE is a vital conversation starter for anyone who calls Australia home and asks the question, “Can we find a path to a more unified Australia, or will we always be divided?

Crossing the Divide

Produced by Mosaico Errante, The Black Blues Brothers has wowed more than 650,000 spectators across 20 countries and established itself as a must-see international show, with numerous sold-out performances, standing ovations, and four- and five-star reviews.

A virtuoso American-style show, as vintage as it is contemporary, spanning generations and continents!

The Black Blues Brothers

Nikki Nouveau presents the intriguing life and times of legendary Parisian artist Edith Piaf through song and story.
Delivered in French and English, this spellbinding and romantic show features classic numbers Padam, La Vie En Rose, Non Je Ne Regrette Rien along with other timeless pieces.

No Regrets: The Edith Piaf Story

After a wildly popular , sold-out performance season in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, this smash-hit production returns to the stage with the brilliant Heather Mitchell reviving her award-winning 'virtuosic performance’ (The Conversation) of the women who changed the face of the American legal system: the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

RBG: Of Many, One

Step inside The Famous Spiegeltent and experience the jaw-dropping, spectacular show, La Clique!

Sexy, funny, dangerous and very risqué, this spellbinding production has captivated more than a million people around the globe since its ground-breaking debut in 2004.


La Clique

The Famous Spiegeltent - HOTA Parklands

Shen Yun takes you on an extraordinary journey through China’s 5,000 years of divinely inspired culture. Exquisite beauty from the heavens, profound wisdom from dynasties past, timeless legends, and ethnic traditions all spring to life through classical Chinese dance, enchanting live orchestral music, authentic costumes, and patented interactive backdrops. Revisit a time when scholars and artists sought harmony with the Tao, or the “Way” of the universe, and when divine beings walked upon the earth to inspire humanity.

Shen Yun 2025

Stone Temple Pilots return to Australia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘Purple’, the group’s chart-topping, multi-platinum second album. In honour of the milestone, the band will perform the entire album plus the hits. 

Released on June 7, 1994, Purple was the highly anticipated follow-up to Stone Temple Pilots’ 1992 debut, Core, which sold over eight million copies and earned a GRAMMY® Award. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and quickly became a fan favourite, selling over six million copies. Purple features some of the group’s most beloved tracks, including “Interstate Love Song” and “Vasoline,” which topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It also includes “Big Empty,” a song that first appeared on the film soundtrack for The Crow. It was a massive Top 10 hit on mainstream and modern rock charts and won the MTV Movie Award for Best Song in a Movie. 

Stone Temple Pilots

Fresh off The Sadness arena tour, 8 time ARIA award winner and alt-pop singer songwriter, Amy Shark has today announced she’ll be hitting the road for a mammoth 20 date Solo Acoustic “Songs and Stories” regional tour of Australia across Jan Feb March 2025. For the first time ever, Amy will perform the entire set acoustically, while diving into stories and emotions of how each song came to life. Do not miss this!

Amy Shark – The Solo Acoustic “Songs & Stories” Tour

Get ready for a foot-stomping, rib-tickling adventure with the Proudfoot & Friends stage show! Join award-winning performer Lucas Proudfoot and his unforgettable cast, including Aunty May, Ned, Sis, and magical animals like Hopa-tee-woo Kangaroo and Ruby the Frog. Beware of the troublemakers Cane Toad Bill and Fruit Bat Charlie from Smelly Mud Swamp! This groundbreaking comedy-musical features state-of-the-art digital puppeteering and choreographed animated projections that delight and captivate little ones (and big ones!) as Lucas leads them on a hilarious interactive sing-along adventure.

Proudfoot and Friends

New Zealand’s L.A.B are set to return to the Gold Coast this coming summer, celebrating the release of their new album L.A.B VI. This show will see them return for the first time in over three years, bringing with them fellow Kiwis Tiki Taane (One Man Band) & Corrella.

Following on from the release of their number one new album L.A.B VI, 2024 has seen the band sell out shows in NZ and the United States already. The band will return to Australia in February for a run of shows that will see them playing tracks from their much-loved catalogue, including tracks from L.A.B VI for the first time in Australia. Their last tour in 2023 sold-out shows across the country, with these shows expected to repeat.

L.A.B

Standing in Franks shoes is international performer Rhydian Lewis, who performs like he is channelling Sinatra at his absolute peak. Featuring a song line up, including some of Sinatra’s most famous and best-selling Hits; Come Fly with Me, The Lady Is a Tramp, Fly Me to The Moon, I've Got You Under My Skin, That’s Life, My Way, Luck Be a Lady, The Theme from New York New York, Strangers in the Night, and more.

King of the Swingers: Sinatra Through the Years

Lakeside Room

HOTA, Home of the Arts presents “Wonderbox” by Sensorium Theatre produced by Performing Lines WA.

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