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Prepare to be uplifted, entertained, and perhaps enlightened when Adelaide cabaret icon and favourite Libby O'Donovan premieres her brand-new show, Sister Elizabeth, at Her Majesty's Theatre this September, for one night only.

The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild has finally reached Arcadia.

The performance was tied to the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Do you remember On The Town, that wonderful musical film from 1949; three young sailors on shore leave on the loose in New York, singing and dancing through life, and meeting girls? Well, Dogfight, presented by St Jude's Players, is a bit like that, but just a bit.

In a late career change, I gained a degree in Adult and Vocational Education, and then a post-graduate degree in Secondary Education, leading to several years of relief and contract teaching in music and drama for a number of high schools.

Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival proudly presents three fabulous weeks of the best contemporary Asian and Asian Australian performance, art, literature, cuisine, and culture when the 2022 event returns, taking place from October 20 – November 6.

Shakespeare will always be a part of the theatre scene

Windmill has announced that Bruce Speirs will end his tenure as Chair in October, following nine years on the board, with current director, Richard Harris to step into the role.

Acclaimed by critics and audiences, the rock drama Rolling Thunder Vietnam makes its eagerly-awaited return to the stage in 2023 for its most extensive national tour to date.

Orchestral principal and chamber musician Simon Cobcroft has been appointed Artistic Director of South Australia’s acclaimed Coriole Chamber Music Festival for three years commencing in 2023.

Guildhouse, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation have announced South Australian painter Tom Phillips as the 2022 Guildhouse Fellow – a twelve-month fellowship valued at over $50,000.

To Barbra, With Love, the highly successful celebration of the inimitable Barbra Streisand, will be remounted in Canberra, Adelaide and Sydney, with local symphony orchestras.

Adelaide Festival Centre will present this year's OUR MOB, a unique exhibition of art by First Nations artists as well as the return of free in-person literary and storytelling events, OUR WORDS and OUR STORIES.

Following the success of 'Next Fall' and 'An Unseasonable Fall of Snow' and hot off the heels of the recent sold out and critically acclaimed West End production in London, Boyslikeme Productions presents the Adelaide premiere of Cock, scheduled for a limited 2-week season at Holden Street Theatres

Celebrating its 25th year the 2022 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival officially opened last night and will run from 1 - 31 August.

Acclaimed writer and comedian Simon Taylor has announced an encore Australian September tour of his hit show, Epic which is inspired by his love for travel complete with his personal adventures and mishaps overseas.

Having set two Guinness World Records with his previous sell-out World Tour, Professor Brian Cox is back with a brand-new live-on-stage show in 2022.

New tickets for Dolly Parton's smash-hit West End musical, 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL, in Adelaide go on sale this week for performances up to 30 October at Adelaide Festival Centre's Festival Theatre.

Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace on Sunday 31 July at 3 pm at Tatachilla Lutheran College Stadium, McLaren Vale with a choir of 300 voices.

For their final production in their 50th-anniversary year, The Stirling Players will present something completely different – The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, presenting all of Shakespeare’s plays and some sonnets in less than t

Adelaide Cabaret Festival invites talented Year 10 and 11 performing arts students to apply for Adelaide Festival Centre's Class of Cabaret 2023 program.

The play is so well chosen for this collective.

The true story of the Pitman Painters, a remarkable group of men who as miners embark on an educational WEA course and become world famous artist.

Australian composers and a world premiere performance to feature in the inaugural On the Terrace, On the Road chamber music festival in Port Augusta.

At the centre of this play about fate, mathematics, feminism, gardening, apples and the utter randomness of it all is the story of a group of people who simply cannot get it together when it comes to things that are actually important.