Entertainment

Note: All tickets for entertainment venues are booked through a ticketing agency. When booking tickets be sure to make the point clear to the ticketing agency that you require wheelchair seating.

Burswood Dome
Great Eastern Highway
Burswood

Part of the Burswood Entertainment complex, the Burswood Dome is one of the largest enclosed entertainment, sports and special events venues in Australia. Best known for hosting the Hopman Cup Tennis Tournament and big name rock concerts such as Santana or Matchbox Twenty. A feature of the Dome's design is the enormous inflated teflon coated fibreglass roof which soars to a height of 35 metres. Eight huge fans maintain constant air pressure to ensure the roof is fully inflated at all times. As a result you enter through air-lock type doors. The venue is wheelchair friendly.

There is quite a few Acrod parking bays near the dome, but they fill quickly and then the large crowds make finding parking a bit of a lottery.

The majority of the wheelchair spaces for concerts are behind the first block of tiered seating where there is a recess. There was ample room and a seat was supplied for the partners. To get to this level you have to use the lift. After you go in the main entrance opposite the casino go to the left to the enquiry office. From there the staff will show you to the lift and give you directions.

A couple of hints – no matter what entrance your ticket says to enter, enter through the main entrance. Closer doesn’t mean better - we tried the closest of the spaces to the stage (still some distance away) and we couldn’t see the giant video screen because of staging structures. There were disabled toilets on each level, which were clearly signposted. They were very tight for room, but I squeezed in.

Burswood Theatre
Great Eastern Highway
Burswood

Situated next to the Burswood Hotel and Casino. A popular venue for a wide range of productions including stage shows, concerts, comedies, operas and rock shows.

There are 20 accessible parking bays located at the rear of the Burswood Hotel (west side - entry through slip road between carpark 4 and Genting Palace Restaurant). There are also 6 parking bays in the undercroft area.

This would be one of my favorite venues having attended many shows here. You enter in the door furthest from the hotel, door 2, and proceed to the entrance at the end of the corridor. There is a unisex disabled toilet just past the stairs on the left. Ushers will show you in. The wheelchair seating is on the aisle giving good room and they are about ten rows from the stage with a great view. There is seating for a partner or carer.

Regal Theatre
Cnr. Hay Street & Rokeby Road
Subiaco

Another popular venue for a wide range of theatrical productions including stage shows, concerts, comedies, operas, film festivals and rock shows.

The venue is wheelchair accessible, but there are some limitations. There are only two wheelchair bays, side by side, with seats only on one side. This limits whether a partner or carer can sit next to the second wheelchair. The bays are shallow and on an exit aisle and it can be crowded with people exiting. The bays are to the rear of the theater, but the view of the stage is satisfactory. The staff are extremely accommodating.

There is no disabled toilet.

Parking is available in various carparks situated around the Theatre. These range in distance from the theater from 200m to 500m and the road side bays mostly have time limitations. All appeared to have a parking fee.

His Majesty’s Theatre
825 Hay Street
Perth

Described as such - His Majesty's Theatre has hosted a myriad of performance genres - from ballet to contemporary dance, opera to musical theatre, vaudeville to stand-up comedy, Shakespearean drama to pantomime and more. It is a grand old building of fine architecture.

Parking for the theatre is at multiple level carparks around the city, all with height restrictions and a fee.

Wheelchair access to the building is off the footpath. They do not have a unisex disabled toilet, but rather just a cubicle in the respective toilets.

The theatre has space for two wheelchairs, but as they are side by side there is only seating next to one, which prohibits a partner next to the second one. The spaces are in the back row. As the theatre is not overly large I could still see the stage without a problem. Staff helpful.

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