Earlier this year, the First Nations-led creative team behind JUTE Theatre Company’s Three Dresses packed up and headed north to Hope Vale. To begin creating this new North Queensland story for families across Australia, we spent a powerful, beautiful week developing this new work right where the story breathes – on Country, surrounded by the … Read more
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Sharon Hogan to the JUTE team, delivering Regional Arts Services Network (RASN) support to artists and arts workers across regional Queensland. Based on Gubbi Gubbi Country, Gympie, Sharon is a theatree maker, arts leader, educator and researcher with extensive experience in professional and regional theatre, community-led performance and arts development. … Read more
A lifelong dream, a rare 18th-century violin and a story spanning almost 250 years have inspired a powerful new chamber music/theatre work to be presented by JUTE Theatre Company for one night only as part of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music’s (AFCM) Community Culture Program. Rhapsody – A Violin’s Journey Through Time, created by … Read more
Two lively animal tales, one about a singing dog, the other a brave little bird, will make their first steps from page to stage this month, as JUTE Theatre Company and ARC Disability Services present Stories Alive – a creative development showcase at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre. The showcase will be a culmination of a one-week … Read more
Queensland’s regional theatre sector is set for a new wave of growth, with free statewide advisory support delivered by Cairns-based JUTE Theatre Company through the remodelled Regional Arts Services Network (RASN). JUTE is proud to be one of the six organisations contracted to deliver RASN services for the 2026-2027 period. Building on its expertise of … Read more
Exploring the small joys that make life worth living, JUTE Theatre Company, in association with Ipswich’s THAT Production Company, will open its 2026 season at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre next month (4–14 March) with Every Brilliant Thing, an intimate theatre experience starring Cairns’ own hometown hero Jason Klarwein. Written by the Olivier-Award-nominated Duncan Macmillan with Jonny … Read more
The graduating class of JUTE’s Actors Studio Pathways program will take centre stage this month as JUTE Theatre Company, in partnership with Overall Arts, presents Cooked, a gripping new work by award-winning playwright Kathryn Ash and directed by Amber Grossmann. Tickets are on sale now for Cooked, which will premiere at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre on … Read more
JUTE Theatre Company, in partnership with Belloo Creative (Brisbane), will launch a brand-new script development model when it presents 4 on the Floor, with a public showcase of new works in progress, on Friday 24 October at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre. Developed over an intensive week-long creative lab in Cairns, 4 on the Floor brings together … Read more
Leaping from 17th-century Italy to today’s urban art scene in a fast, funny and thought-provoking mash-up of history, humour and imagination, new dark comedy Genius will premiere at Cairns’ Bulmba-ja Theatre from 26 September to 4 October 2025. Written by acclaimed Darwin playwright Sandra Thibodeaux, directed by Nicky Fearn, and co-produced by Thibodeaux, JUTE Theatre … Read more
JUTE Theatre Company invites audiences to take part in the creative journey of HUNTERS, a powerful new Australian play by Michael Sams, with a special public reading at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre on Friday, 6 June. Sams is an award-winning playwright whose works have been performed nationally and internationally, with HUNTERS marking his latest full-length work … Read more