live performance
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.
Performance review: Dropped in It: Crime Scene Improvisation, Adelaide Fringe
An improvised crime scene comedy where one-liners and terrible puns could prove deadlier than any weapon.
Theatre review: Henry 5, The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
Bell Shakespeare kicks off its 2025 season with this modern and accessible adaptation performed by a fresh-faced cast.
Here You Come Again, the Dolly Parton musical, is dancing down to Australia
Bring your dancing shoes for a celebration of Dolly's biggest hits in a musical promising southern charm and a dazzling…
Raising the Bar 2025: combining your night out with some new ideas
One night, 20 free talks, and a lot to learn.
Ballet review: Carmen, Regent Theatre
A fresh interpretation of a centuries old story that sizzles and provokes on stage.
Music review: Cat Power Sings Dylan, Port Fairy Folk Festival
When a performer truly shows their vulnerability, sometimes that can give rise to the greatest gigs of all.
A master storyteller willing to connect: Rob Carlton
The Silver Logie winner is bringing his powerful and award-winning one-man show, ‘Willing Participant’ to MICF 2025.
Turning cancer on its head
Dr Jo Prendergast took her devastating diagnosis and said, ‘Yes, I can make a comedy show out of this.’
Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival
A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.