Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, Heritage theater in Atherton, Australia

Atherton Performing Arts Theatre is a heritage-listed former military depot and now theatre at 6 Silo Street, Atherton. It is an American Rolling Mill Company (ARMCO) hut with a steel segmented-arch frame, erected around 1943 at the 13th Australian Advance Ordnance Depot at Tolga and moved to this site in 1947. A neighbouring gabled-roof workshop building stands beside it.

This building was constructed in 1943 as part of a military ordnance depot during World War II and originally functioned as a storage facility. After the war ended, the structure was relocated and eventually repurposed to serve as a performing arts facility.

The theatre serves as a gathering place where the local community regularly watches plays, musicals, and performances created by people from the area. Local performers use the stage to develop their craft and share stories that matter to them.

The igloo stands on Silo Street in Atherton, its arched iron shell forming the auditorium; the neighbouring gabled workshop building dates from the same postwar move. Access is through Atherton Performing Arts Inc., the volunteer group that runs the venue, so check locally for performance times before travelling. The interior is a single open hall, with the stage set inside the original steel segmented-arch frame.

The igloo's original steel segmented-arch frame is a rare surviving wartime example of its type in Queensland. The building was erected around 1943 at the 13th Australian Advance Ordnance Depot at Tolga before being moved to Silo Street in 1947.