Our History

50th Anniversary next year

The Picton Theatre Group was started by a few dedicated people in 1977 who could see the need for amateur theatre in the local community. 2027 will be the 50th Anniversary of PTG's first show.

In 1977 interest started to build for a local theatre group and it was decided to hold auditions for "The Pajama Game".
After many rehearsals the play was finally presented to the local community and played to full houses, with the first weekend performances on March 18th and 19th in 1978.
Over the years the Picton Theatre Group has performed for patients at Queen Victoria Hospital, Stonequarry Lodge, Warragamba Jack Donohue Festival, Carols by Candlelight, Wollondilly Evening View Club and Highlands View Club.
Pantomime is another successful venture for the Picton Theatre Group with "Babes in the Woods" and "Cinderella's Christmas" as well as the premier of "The Spirit of Christmas".
The Picton Theatre Group has also presented several successful Music Hall Shows, reviews, lesser known comedies, dramas and innovative plays.

Our Aim

To present amateur theatre of high quality, and at a reasonable price for the whole community to enjoy. We also to have lots of fun!

What We Do

The Picton Theatre Group is a non-profit community based organization, run by volunteers for over 45 years, providing affordable entertainment to the Wollondilly community.
We perform entertaining shows every year offering a unique BYO Dinner & Show package.
We perform predominantly comedies, dramas & musicals, we also have a costume hire dept.
With professional theatre prices making live theatre prohibitive to young families and seniors, we endeavour to keep our prices as low as possible offering exceptional value for money with ticket prices for show only, dinner & show, concession prices.

See the bookings page for more information.

Youth in Theatre

Encouraging youth is very important to us.
Youth productions such as pantomimes being staged again, with the next one at the start of next year.

Local Businesses

Local businesses are always invited to participate with our publicity of shows, contributions to support our show raffle prizes and production requirements, ie. set materials and props. Contact our President if you want to assist us.

We would like to give an ongoing thank you to the local businesses who currently support us. It is much appreciated.
See the links page for some of the businesses which regularly support us.

Fundraising for Charity

We support local charities by granting them Charity performance nights, to help raise funds for their particular causes. So far we have helped raise in excess of $15,000 for local charities.