Fact Sheet

• A new theatre for professional performing arts in the heart of Auckland next to the Town Hall and Silo Theatres.
  
  
• A place where you will see vibrant, spirited contemporary theatre, dance and performing arts representing the best of local, national and international flavours. [More about programming...]
  
  
• The international quality auditorium features flexible staging, and seating is for 350-460 people.
  
  
• The current site design features an entrance to the theatre through a bar / café off Queen Street and an auditorium in the Town Hall Arts Precinct, at the back of the Town Hall facing the carpark and Silo Theatre.
  
  
• Q theatre is the vision of the New Theatre Initiative Inc, an incorporated society of professional performing arts practitioners who have formed a facilities partnership with Auckland City to develop the venue.
  
  
• The capital/building assets of NTi Inc will be transferred to Q Theatre Trust and any other assets to Q Theatre Ltd, a limited liability company with responsibility for running the venue.
  
  
• Extensive business planning for the operation of the theatre is based on international best practice. This business case has been endorsed by Auckland City Council and by other significant regional arts bodies and supporters such as ART (Arts Regional Trust) and ASB Community Trust.
  
  
• The community need for this venue has been continuously considered and validated since the project’s inception and independent audits have positively endorsed business planning.

• Auckland City Council has agreed to gift the buildings and provide land on a long-tem lease. The City has committed $ 9.2 million in capital funds, $ 470,000 to date in running costs as well as their agreement in principle to an operational subsidy once the venue opens.

• Thanks to fantastic support, $14.3 million (over 70%) of the target is already raised.

• The aim is to raise the balance of funds required from a combination of private donors, community trusts and central government.

• The plan is for the new theatre to be operational by 2010.