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For the first time State Opera of South Australia (SOSA) will open its season with a compact, hard-hitting, musical double bill in the intimate setting of The Opera Studio.

This month, the Adelaide Festival Centre invites you to enter the captivating world of Le Noir! A truly unique and electrifying theatrical experience, Le Noir features 20 of the greatest circus performers on the planet, all of whom are award winning athletes and many stars of previous Cirque Du Sole

Adelaide's Award winning Hills Musical Company will present a new production of the Tony Award winning musical, YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN in the Stirling Community Theatre, Stirling from Friday 24 April through until Saturday 9 May for nine performances only.

Award-winning Adelaide-based national theatre company, Windmill Theatre, is breaking into new territory with the expansion of its international touring program, in addition to the commencement of several new strategic partnerships, as it enters a period of further growth and momentum.

Years before Harry Potter was flying around in his magical car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the original fine four fendered friend, flying high in front of audiences worldwide.

?Other F words within cooee of this year's Adelaide Cabaret Festival are fabulous, funny, frisky, fantastic and, of course, Fedora!

?Frauleins and Friedrichs, Louisas and Liesels, Baronesses and Brigittas, Adelaide will again be alive with the sound of music… with songs we have heard for fifty years as 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the most successful movie musical of all time, The Sound of Music.

Augie March were back on an Adelaide stage, and they were welcomed back as friends by a loving and delighted crowd.

Adelaide Repertory Theatre's next production Quartet is a moving and comical tale about a group of ageing opera singers reunited in a retirement home for musicians.

Neil Simon, America's premier comic playwright, makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships, and Galleon Theatre Group has jumped on board to test the waters!

It has been thirty years since Eugene O'Neill's landmark 'realist' play, Long Days Journey Into Night, was last performed in Adelaide.

Those three long standing ovations made it very clear what the audience thought.

Jacqui Yeo led a well-rehearsed band through some of the iconic songs of Aretha Franklin.

Yanni Burton appears to have a whole new career ahead of him as a songwriter and singer.

A lot of work has gone into this production and the result is, on the whole, very good and well worth seeing.

Today the South Australian Government has announced $90 million towards the redevelopment of the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Something on Saturday is back for another fun-filled year with the best entertainment for children aged 2 - 10 years from 2 May - 5 September.

Given half a chance, I would still be there, avidly listening to this remarkable musician and composer.

Bob Kingdom has toured this production in the UK and the US, playing to over 80,000 people.

Emma Donovan and the Putbacks opened the final day of WOMADelaide, on Centre Stage with an exhibition of good, solid soul.

Malawi Mouse Boys opened the third day of WOMADelaide on Stage 2 and to say that their sound is raw is rather an understatement.

Tjintu Desert Band opened the second day of WOMADelaide on Stage 2 with their blend of reggae and rock.

The contemporary WOMAD goes well beyond world music and dance as it also incorporates visual and performing arts, food, and ideas.

?International cabaret sensation Le Gateau Chocolat is throwing open the doors to his critically acclaimed new Adelaide Fringe show 'ICONS' on Wednesday, March 11, offering free entry to anyone who turns up in costume as their own icon.

This is quite obviously a labour of love from some very talented professional musicians.