Adelaide Festival
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.
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.