Adelaide Festival
Theatre review: Krapp’s Last Tape with Stephen Rea, Adelaide Festival 2025
A masterful actor performs Beckett’s masterpiece about the inevitable march of time: an unmissable production.
Dance review: A Quiet Language, Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival 2025
A complex, compelling production, by turns anguished and joyous, angry and elegiac, honouring six decades of radical dance history.
Adelaide Festival 2025 brings the world to South Australia
An array of international acts join First Nations artists and Australian companies for the 40th Adelaide Festival.
Adelaide Festival announces first three shows for 2025
A Simon Stone-directed opera, a triple bill from Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal and ADT’s 60th anniversary production are the first…
Adelaide Festival AD quits to take up government job
Ruth Mackenzie has stepped down as Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival in order to oversee the development and delivery of…
Exhibition review: Neoterica, Adelaide Festival
20 artists and 20 writers commissioned in a celebration of South Australian contemporary art.
Theatre review: Grand Theft Theatre, Adelaide Festival
A recreation of memorable theatrical experiences forms the basis of this show.
Performance reviews: Marina Abramović Institute: Takeover, Adelaide Festival
A suite of duration works from different artists in different spaces.
Opera review: The Nightingale and Other Fables, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Festival
A stunningly inventive operatic reimagining makes its Australian debut in Adelaide.
Orientalism, a stain that taints Australian opera?
From yellowface to chinoiserie – Orientalism pervades Western stages, so will that include Adelaide Festival’s upcoming, lauded centrepiece opera?