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Producers Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian, John Frost and the Really Useful Group today announced that the world's favourite musical, The Sound of Music, would come to Adelaide in 2016.

Nominations have now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015.

More than 300 artists from across Australia will showcase work in TARNANTHI (TAR-nan-dee), the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, at the Art Gallery of South Australia from today 8-18 October with exhibitions continuing until 17 January 2016.

Brisbane born soprano Mirusia will return home with her new solo program This Time Tomorrow, which will tour nationally from April to August 2016 with one show only in Adelaide on May 21 in the Festival Theatre.

'With Love from the Trenches' is a moving and deeply personal look at the Australian experience of World War I, expressed through heart-rending letters between a mother and her soldier son in the lead up to the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

I was absolutely thrilled by the sheer professionalism, imagination, technical skill, attention to detail, colour and movement.

Completely UNsurprisingly, Rob Mills is Surprisingly Good.

To call Play a dance work is a massive understatement.

As the audience entered the space it was obvious that Dear John was not going to be a normal theatre experience.

Amber is the work of the company's resident playwright, Liao Yimei, and is directed by her husband, the influential and highly respected, Meng Jinghui.

Michelle Ryan is unique.

As this is one of my favourite musicals it was a pleasure to see it performed so well.

After selling in excess of 10,000 tickets in only three days, the festival's highly anticipated stadium spectacular from Groupe F is now officially the fastest selling show in the 55 year history of Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker began, strangely enough, in the Dunstan Playhouse foyer, as the loose gathering of ticket holders were herded down the stairs.

I would have liked to have seen this work a second time as there is so much to take in.

Australia's man of musicals Rob Mills is giving Adelaide audiences a chance to hear him up close and personal this October long weekend, and discover that he is, as the critics say 'surprisingly good'.

Virtuosic pianist, Mekhla Kumar, joins forces with the Langbein String Quartet (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra players Michael Milton, Emma Perkins, Rosi McGowran and David Sharp) for the third instalment of this year's Brahmsian series presented by The Firm on Monday October 5, 8pm, Elder Hall.

On any night during the OzAsia Festival, between 5 and 9pm, you can take a ride in a private sepeda lampu, a double bicycle conveyance.

It all begins simply, with Tupu playing on a hobby horse, until frightened by a loudly barking dog.

These are The Streets of Jakarta, presented in a powerful, moving, and confrontational presentation by Teater Garasi.

The work is a response to the ecological damage happening to Jailolo due to climate change.

In its 10th year of presenting the most outstanding work by South Australian Aboriginal artists, Our Mob will celebrate its biggest exhibition yet.

A dedicated group of Adelaide based musicians has created Australia's largest scale Pink Floyd concept show entitled EXPERIENCE FLOYD; a three hour sound and light extravaganza playing at Thebarton Theatre, 20 November  7.

The inaugural WATU Adelaide Youth Choir Festival, comprising more than 120 choristers from South Australia and interstate aged between twelve and nineteen years, will be held from 7-10 October 2015.

Joh Hartog directs Krystal Brock and Clare Mansfield as Stella, a director holding auditions, and Lauren, a hopeful actress.