What's On at the Jetty Theatre

Aurora Guitar Ensemble
4 July
A concert of classical and popular guitar music, featuring the Aurora Guitar Ensemble under the direction of Dr Paul Svoboda. Read more and buy tickets.

Thursday's Child
8-10 July
Thursday's Child is Tin, born on a Thursday and, like the old nursery rhyme, 'has far to go.' A strange and lonely child who digs, his wanderings take him underneath the earth into the subterranean tunnels that he's pre-destined to roam. Told by Tin's sister, Harper Flute, it is a story of a family's struggle on their desolate farm during the great depression. Read more and buy tickets.

Janison Short Sharp Film Festival
11 July
The Festival is an annual event to showcase the work of film- makers  and aspiring film- makers. It will also give the public an opportunity to see short, sharp films made by anyone with inspiration and the will to get something in the can. Read more and buy tickets.

CHATS Productions adds the greatest of them all to the list of Shakespeare plays presented to the Coffs Harbour public - Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing. Director Shirley Barnett promises a vivid contemporary approach to the tragedy of the conflicted Prince of Denmark. Read more and buy tickets.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
27-28 August
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is adapted from Eleanor Coerr's moving classic based on a true story. Sadako Sasaki is an ordinary feisty 12 year old who dreams of one day becoming Japan's greatest ever runner. Then suddenly she is struck down by a terrible illness. On an astonishing over-size origami set, this production literally unfolds before your very eyes. Read more and buy tickets.

Wendy Matthews: Up Close and Intimate
30 August
Wendy Matthew shas a reputation as an artist par excellence with a sublime, expressive voice that never fails to move those who hear it. Both acoustically and physically, Wendy Matthews moves with an enviable minimalism.  Read more and buy tickets.

A Bright & Crimson Flower
11 - 12 September
A tribute to the Australian prisoners of war 1942 - 45. A story of ingenuity, humour, mateship and a sheer will to survive.

WARNING: Not recommended for small children. Show contains mild language and moderate noise.

Spirit Whispers Charmaine Wilson
20 September
The Winner of Channel Seven's Hit Series The One and Australian Psychic of the Year Charmaine Wilson will give her audiences a chance to connect with those who have passed over in order to give messages of peace and love to the living. Having just completed a sell-out tour of Queensland, the remarkable medium takes her special gift to audiences Australia wide for the first time. Don't miss Charmaine Wilson - The Spirit Whisperer. Read more.

Embers
2-4 October
In January 2003 a dry storm ignited over 80 fires in Victoria's North East and Gippsland. From exhaustive interviews with residents of the region, Campion Decent has fashioned an extraordinary account of the fires. Gripping, lyrical, comically overwrought when it seems tragic, and deeply moving when all appears lost, Embers is the story of a fire - and the people who conquered it. Read more and buy tickets.

The Needle and the Damage Done
10 October
A joyous romp through a top ten of the worst records ever released in the history of the world, led by comedian, DJ, and satirist Fiona Scott-Norman. An hysterical journey through appalling musical excesses, Needle is so gloriously wrong it couldn't be any righter. Read more and buy tickets.

Dealer's Choice
15-17 October
There's no such thing as easy money. Dealers Choice is much more than just a comedy. It is a compelling story about father/son relationships, male bravado and a secret window into the world of men. Dealer's Choice crackles with scalding wit and edge-of-your-seat suspense as the stakes are driven to an almost unbearable knife-edge. Read more and buy tickets.

Gone to Bali
23-31 October
Sheila Harris escaped to Bali seven years ago to start a new life after giving up on the man that she had hoped to some day marry, leaving him to care for his mother and his girlfriend. A lot of time has passed since the romance first began, some twenty years, and Sheila has invited her ex beau, David, along with their mutual best friend Larry, whom she also was a bit fond of back then, for a 6 week holiday with her in Bali. Read more and buy tickets.

Steel Magnolias
5-7 November
The quintessential story of friendship, Steel Magnolias serves up a slice of life in Louisiana that's as warm and comforting as sweet potato pie. Fans of Robert Harling's smash hit film can enjoy this enduring comedy and heart-felt celebration of love, loyalty, and the bonds of sisterhood live on stage with some of Australia's best loved actresses of stage and screen. Read more and buy tickets.

Oliver!
14 November - 5 December
Nothing works on the stage like a well-crafted tale, and Oliver! is just such a show. Based on the Dickens novel, it engages the audience with its pathos and drama, while delighting everyone with its outstanding musical numbers. Read more and buy tickets.