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Ensemble Pygmalion performs Monteverdi's Vespers at Adelaide Festival 2026. Photo: Claudio Raschella.

Monteverdi's Vespers and Orfeo review: two 5-star baroque masterpieces at Adelaide Festival

Ensemble Pygmalion's performances of Monteverdi's Vespers and the opera Orfeo were baroque masterpieces for a neo-baroque age.

Isabelle Huppert in Mary Said What She Said at Adelaide Festival 2026. Photo: Lucie Jansch.
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Mary Said What She Said is a stunning solo act

Acclaimed French actress Isabelle Huppert is hypnotic as the doomed Queen of Scots in this Adelaide Festival production of Mary…

The Tiger Lillies perform Serendade from the Sewer at Adelaide Festival 2026. Photo: Andrew Beveridge.
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The Tiger Lillies review: dead funny cabaret at Adelaide Festival

The Tiger Lillies didn't bring the energy they're known for to this Adelaide Festival performance of Serenade from the Sewer.

Performances & Gigs

iced mojo theatre

The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me

The International premiere of this seminal LGBTQ= play.

History of Violence at Adelaide Festival 2026. A half-naked actor, covered by a bedsheet, sprawls on stage. His image is cast to a screen behind him by the camera held in a second actor's hands; the second actor wears a white plastic forensic jumpsuit.
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History of Violence review: exploring memory, trauma and the nature of truth at Adelaide Festival

History of Violence was stunning proof that the nature of any story, no matter how personal, changes in the telling.

Workshops

The Festival of Dance

Festival of Dance Workshops - Christian Tàtchev & Hana Kato

The Festival of Dance is excited to facilitate a unique opportunity to take Master Classes with Christian Tàtchev & Hana…

First Nations performance Guuranda X will be reimagined in India. Photo: TJ Garvie.
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This Narungga-led First Nations performance will premiere in India in a historic cultural exchange

This month, Indigenous Elders and artists travel to Chennai to debut GUURANDA x KMMC – and you can livestream it in Australia.

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Monash University Performing Arts Centres

Applications now open for MPAC’s 2027 Commissions Program

At Monash, new ideas drive us. At MPAC, commissioning is research in action - testing ideas in sound, movement and…

Performances & Gigs

Yarra Ranges Council

Women of Wit

Women of Wit showcases the best new, emerging and established women in stand-up comedy.

Tyshawn Sorey: Alone at Adelaide Festival 2026. A tall, solidly built African American man with closely cropped hair and a matching beard, and wearing a black business shirt, sits at an open-topped piano.
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Tyshawn Sorey: Alone review – Adelaide Festival 2026

A solo piano recital by Black American composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey at Adelaide Festival 2026.

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