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Trio Da Kali played as part of Chamber Landscapes 2025 'Horizon' and 'Dialogue in Sound' at Adelaide Festival 2025.
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Music reviews: Horizons Chamber Landscapes 2025 and Dialogues in Sound, Adelaide Festival 2025

A concert that offered hope for the world and a rousing musical statement in a gilded Victorian concert hall.

L-R: Soprano Claire de Sévigné and clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff made beautiful music together at Adelaide Festival 2025.
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Music review: Daylight Express, Elder Hall, Adelaide Festival 2025

Six exquisitely fashioned gems as part of a two-week series of lunchtime recitals at Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide.

A woman with longish dark brown hair and a green, white and black dress, sings into a mic with her eyes closed. Missy Higgins. Port Fairy Folk Festival.
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Music review: Missy Higgins, Port Fairy Folk Festival

A natural fit for the Port Fairy stage, one of Australia's favourite singer/songwriters did not let us down.

Three women. One is seated in the middle with yellow yarn. The other two gather around her.
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Theatre review: Macbeth, Roundhouse Theatre, La Boite Theatre

Seen via the lens of the prophetic three witches, a reimagined 'Macbeth' offers much promise, but fails in its vision…

Billie Eilish 'Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour' in Melbourne. The singer is at the centre of a 360-degree stage holding an acoustic guitar and singing into the microphone.
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Concert review: Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour 2025, Rod Laver Arena

Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' left the crowd buzzing from the energy.

A man in drag on stage. There is a band behind him.
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Performance reviews: Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Camille O’Sullivan: Loveletter, Adelaide Festival

Two Adelaide Festival shows look to the past, but with varying degrees of success.

A chalk drawing of a figure on the ground. There is someone dressed as a king and a detective overlooking it.
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Performance review: Dropped in It: Crime Scene Improvisation, Adelaide Fringe

An improvised crime scene comedy where one-liners and terrible puns could prove deadlier than any weapon.

A group of people lying on top of each other covered in mud.
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Theatre review: Henry 5, The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House

Bell Shakespeare kicks off its 2025 season with this modern and accessible adaptation performed by a fresh-faced cast. 

The Australian Ballet's 'Carmen', 2025, choreographed by Johan Inger, featuring Jill Ogai in the role of Carmen. A dark-haired woman in a red, ruffled dress, her legs bare, gestures dramatically and powerfully towards the camer. Three man are faintly visible in the gloom behind her. All four people are ballet dancers performing in the ballet 'Carmen'.
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Ballet review: Carmen, Regent Theatre

A fresh interpretation of a centuries old story that sizzles and provokes on stage.

A woman in a shoulder less black top with short bleached hair sings in to a microphone. She looks a little tortured. Cat Power. Port Fairy Folk Festival.
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Music review: Cat Power Sings Dylan, Port Fairy Folk Festival

When a performer truly shows their vulnerability, sometimes that can give rise to the greatest gigs of all.

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