Creative Australia has announced funding for eight performing arts tours to visit 86 venues nationally, with most benefitting regional and remote communities.

Patch Theatre’s I Wish. Photo © Andrew Beveridge

The grants ($2,254,000 in total) will provide support to artists to help them to develop their craft and reach new audiences nationwide, particularly those in regional and rural Australia.

The eight grant recipients are: Alexander Clark (Woody’s Ukulele School will tour the Ukulele Kids Show to remote locations in 2024); National Theatre of Parramatta (for a 2024 national regional tour of Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph); Patch Theatre Company (for a tour of I Wish taking in 19 venues); HIT Productions (to tour its Waltzing the Wilarra); Australian Theatre for Young People (to support Past the Shallows, a co-production by Archipelago Productions & ATYP); Shake & Stir Theatre Co (for a national tour of Fourteen by Shannon Molloy); Spare Parts Puppet Theatre Inc (The One Who Planted Trees National Tour 2024), and Roslyn R Pappalardo, for an Australia- wide mainstage tour of a new mixed tape musical work, All Fired Up, inspired by the writers’ shared experience of growing up...