Adelaide Festival

Theatre review: Dogs of Europe, Adelaide Festival
A theatrical cri de coeur and a warning to the world to ignore Russian aggression at our peril.

How international festivals enrich their local arts ecologies
Four artists and four festival directors discuss the many ways major festivals support and nurture the national arts ecology.

Theatre, dance and circus highlights 2023: Part 3, SA
This week we turn our eyes to South Australia, with more curated arts events for your 2023 diary.

A summer festival sampler to whet your arts appetite
Performing Arts Editor Richard Watts selects 10 intriguing summer festival productions to include in your 2023 arts calendar.

How art connects the two most distant but closest nations on Earth
Helen Salmon, Director of British Council Australia, reflects on the role of art in uniting our two nations.

Co-Artistic Directors stepping back sooner than planned
An early transition for incoming Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE has been made possible by pandemic era circumstances.

Theatre review: Girls & Boys, State Theatre Company of South Australia
A finely wrought and harrowing piece of theatre and a highlight of the 2022 Adelaide Festival.

Exhibition Review: Isaac Julien and Helen Fuller, Samstag Museum of Art
A local ceramicist in tandem with an international UK video installation artist in standalone exhibitions.

Opera review: The Golden Cockerel, Adelaide Festival
A never before seen opera in Australia given the surreal Kosky touch.

Richard Flanagan damns arts-uninterested politicians
Saying that we are 'fearful of dreaming large about what we are as a people', Richard Flanagan blasted our politicians…