Adelaide Festival
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: CaÃda 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.