Adelaide Festival
10-year look back at major performing arts festivals shows some things haven’t changed
As some prominent performing arts festivals wrap up their programs for another year, we take a reflective look back on…
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…
Performance reviews: Café Müller and Club Amour, Adelaide Festival
A triple bill dance performance that dealt with memory and repetition.
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.
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.
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.
If all the world’s a stage, why can’t the stage be a Shakespearean table top?
Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells describes the inspiration for and the development of the company’s ‘Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare’.
Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival
A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.
Dance review: Caída del Cielo (Fallen from Heaven), Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival
Flamenco dance and theatre about the agony and ecstasy of womanhood.
Turning 60 in style: Australian Dance Theatre leaps from the stage to the gallery wall
AD Daniel Riley describes the birth of ADT and an accompanying exhibition documenting the company’s six decades of dance-making.