Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Fringe celebrate big numbers as Mad March wraps up

A six-figure surplus is projected for Adelaide Festival, while Adelaide Fringe expects to sell a million tickets for the third year running.

21 Mar 2025 16:22

Richard Watts

All Arts

The audience assembles for another Adelaide Festival performance. Photo: Roy Van Der Vegt.

Adelaide Festival (which closed on Sunday 16 March), and Adelaide Fringe (which closes this Sunday 23 March) are celebrating after successful years both artistically and financially.

Adelaide Festival has projected a six-figure surplus for this financial year, announced on Friday 14 March ahead of its concluding weekend.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts