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Isabelle Huppert in 'Mary Said What She Said,' exclusive to the 2026 Adelaide Festival. The photograph depicts Huppert in a stylised stage performance, her white-painted face distorted and her arms thrown out as she cries aloud in grief or anger.
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2026 Adelaide Festival reveals its first two productions

Fearless French actor Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed early music specialists Ensemble Pygmalion will perform exclusively at the 2026 Adelaide Festival.

A scene from the 2025 ROOKE production 'Wilds', featuring performers Conor Wild and Freyja Wild. Contemporary circus company ROOKE is one of the inaugural members of the Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange. The photograph depicts a female-presenting acrobat wearing brown garments and performing a headstand; in the background, a male-presenting performer in blue clothes and black boots sits in a folding chair beside an inflatable palm tree.
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Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange to develop statewide strategic plan by and for the sector

The newly formed Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange will develop a 10-year strategic plan for the state’s performing arts sector, and…

A scattering of old black and white photographs in The Last Princess of Lebanon.
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The Last Princess of Lebanon review: looking back at one's heritage

The Last Princess of Lebanon explores a great-grandmother's journey from a Lebanese palace to rural Queensland.

A young man and woman are sitting next to each other in Destiny.
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Destiny review: an MTC production that explores South Africa under Apartheid

Destiny, by promising playwright Kirsty Marillier showcases life under South African Apartheid but misses opportunities to deliver an emotional, philosophical…

A young man with blood on his hands. The Talented Mr Ripley.
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The Talented Mr Ripley review: STC production brings a well-known tale to stage

Patricia Highsmith's novel is adapted with theatrical shadow, light and dark.

A man and a woman sitting next to one another. He's holding up a wine bottle. Sarah Morrison and Bobby Fox in Ordinary Days.
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Ordinary Days review: a new New-York set musical at fortyfivedownstairs

Ordinary Days is an ode to chance encounters and the magic waiting to be found in metropolitan life

Kala Gare in MTC's original stage musical 'My Brilliant Career' which returns for an encore in the company's 2026 season. The photo shows a fair haired and fair skinned young woman in period dress posing dramatically beneath a glittering chandelier. Her head is tiled back and her eyes closed as she sings, her right arm thrusts upward and her left arm swings back behind her.
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My Brilliant Career: MTC announces encore season of original musical in 2026

The critically acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career returns to the MTC in 2026.

Three women manipulating two bird puppets in a production of Lost and Finding.
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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).

Actor Andrew McFarlane in a promotion image for David Williamson's The Social Ladder', which opens Ensemble Theatre's 2026 season. The actor, a dapper, tanned man with grey hair, wears a suit, shirt and cravat, and is posing before an ornate gilded picture frame against a bright red background.
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Ensemble Theatre announces its 2026 season

Ten productions have been programmed for Ensemble Theatres 2026 season, including four new Australian productions, one of them by David…

A man, Ian Stenlake, sitting in a chair near a shuttered blind in The 39 Steps.
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The 39 Steps review: Hitchcock gets the slapstick treatment

Hitchcock spy thriller meets Monty Python-style humour in The 39 Steps, a rollicking action-comedy. 

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