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Bangarra Dance Theatre

The Bogong’s Song: a call to Country

What guides you through the darkness when you’ve lost your way? A whisper on the wind. A shimmer in the…

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Kat Glass Creative

Space Pirates

Pirates, puppets & galactic tunes! Strap in for space fun that'll have kids hooked from lift-off!

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Adelaide Fringe

Register for Adelaide Fringe 2026!

Established and emerging artists from across the globe are invited to register for Australia’s biggest arts festival, Adelaide Fringe.

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Backbone Youth Arts

BACKBONE FESTIVAL 2025: Youth Arts has never looked this good!

This October, the Seven Hills Hub will come alive with performance, sound, visual art, and interactive experiences created by some…

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Lost and Finding review: raw energy at Flight Path Theatre

Lost and Finding is a fantastical comedy with a sense of adventure (and puppets).

A promotional image for La Boite and Dead Puppet Society's climate change production, 'We're All Gonna Die!'. The photo shows a female Asian-Australian actor's shocked looking face as they are engulfed by spreading rubbish and garbage.
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We're All Gonna Die! – Maddie Nixon's climate show 'smashes Brisbane's buildings'

We’re All Gonna Die! embraces a monstrous metaphor, with the help of Dead Puppet Society and La Boite.

A triceratops made up of glass panels. It's lit up. Universal Kingdom: The Next Era.
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Universal Kingdom: The Next Era review: dinosaurs lit up as part of Illuminate Adelaide

A luminous installation of dinos big and small.

A rear view of a person wearing a jumpsuit and a yellow beanie; they are looking at bright blue sculptural globules. A camera trained on them.
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Performance review: Night Night, Alexander Theatre, Monash Performing Arts Centres 

A profound tale, told with modern tech whizz-bangery that inspires, makes us think and touches the heart.

A bearded, fair-skinned man peering above a white paper creation of a building which rises up from the pages of a book. The building, and the forlorn figure of a woman holding a book to her chest, have been ornamented with ink on their paper foundations.
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Peformance review: The BookBinder, DreamBIG Children’s Festival

New Zealand’s Trick of the Light Theatre took Adelaide audiences on a whirlwind ride with their award-winning one man show.

Child paints on white wall.
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Dreaming and celebrating big: Adelaide's children’s festival DreamBIG turns 50

DreamBIG in 2025, the longest running children's festival in the world.

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