Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Petra Kalive has made some interesting casting choices.
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Review: CINDERELLA at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
If you have never seen a live opera, this would be an excellent introduction.
Review: THE HOUSEWARMING at Goodwood Theatre
Australia is not a classless society.
Review: RBG: OF MANY, ONE at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Heather Mitchell delivers a master class.
Review: AUSTRALIA DAY at ARTS Theatre
Biggins raises many questions, but provides no answers.
Review: CLUEDO at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
You will likely want to go back and see it a second time.
Review: TROPHY BOYS at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
It all begins hilariously, as the four boys claim that they support feminism, but the misogyny shows through.
Review: WAITING FOR HAMLET – ADELAIDE FRINGE 2026 at Ayer’s House State Dining Room
King Hamlet and Yorick are an hilarious Shakespearean Odd Couple.
Review: MARY SAID WHAT SHE SAID – ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2026 at Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
For Isabelle Huppert, this is a massive undertaking, a tour-de-force performance.
Review: MANIFEST DESTINY – ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2026 at Immersive Light And Art, 63 Light Square, Adelaide
Alex Frayne’s analogue photography captures the history, presence, and future of people and place.
Review: POV - ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2026 at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
This is high risk theatre.
Review: FARAWAY at Odeon Theatre
The world premiere of Faraway, a new work by Jenni Large.
Review: PHÈDRE at Star Theatres
This is very fine; not perfect, but who else in Adelaide would be up to the task?
Review: THE CANTATA BAND - HOPE AND TRIUMPH at Bethlehem Lutheran Church
They are dedicated to bringing Adelaide performances of the cantatas.
Review: TWO BLOOD – AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATRE - OZASIA FESTIVAL 2025 at Odeon Theatre
I really need to see this production again.
Review: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
Charles Gounod took Shakespeare’s tale of the star-crossed lovers and adapted it to create the 1867 opera, Roméo et Juliette, with an overture and Shakespeare’s explanatory prologue, delivered by the chorus, followed by a five-act opera, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at ARTS Theatre
The hills are alive with the sound of music and the Arts Theatre is alive with The Sound of Music, in this most enjoyable production from the Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
Review: CATS at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
Almost forty years ago, in 1987, I happened to be sent on a training course in Melbourne, when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Cats, had its run in Sydney and been transferred to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, and I took advantage of the opportunity to buy a ticket to see the performance.
Review: LAU NOAH AND LIOR – ADELAIDE GUITAR FESTIVAL 2025 at Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
Singer/songwriters who play guitar a bit were disappointing in a guitar festival.
Review: DUO SIQUEIRA LIMA AND YOUNG TAEK JO – ADELAIDE GUITAR FESTIVAL 2025 at Elder Hall, University Of Adelaide
We heard three remarkable musicians.
Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE at Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
A thought-provoking reworking of Mozart's popular opera.
Review: NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH at St Jude's Hall
Ah, memories.
Review: THE WATSONS at Little Theatre, University Of Adelaide
I have not laughed so much at the theatre in God knows how long.
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