Adelaide Festival Centre theatres to temporarily close in 2025

Upgrades to the Space Theatre, Dunstan Playhouse and Festival Theatre from July 2025 onwards mean the theatres will be dark until early 2026.

17 Jul 2024 9:01

Richard Watts

The angular buildings of Adelaide Festival Centre sit on the banks of the River Torrens, surrounded by parkland and taller buildings in the background. The photo is taken at the golden hour in late afternoon, and the buildings are blurrily reflected in the river.

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Adelaide Festival Centre. Photo: Joey Jones.

Adelaide Festival Centre’s core theatres will close in the second half of 2025 to allow upgrades to all three venues.

All three theatres are scheduled to reopen in early 2026.

South Australia’s Minister for the Arts, Andrea Michaels, said in a statement last week: ‘The Adelaide Festival Centre has been an icon in South Australia for more than 50 years.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts