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Director Louise Adler AM has announced the first installment of the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week program.

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.

State Theatre Company South Australia will close its 2025 season with Tennessee Williams’ masterwork, The Glass Menagerie.

Another huge success for T.

Time is running out to submit for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Australia - Adelaide Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

Actress, singer, and composer Lindsey Kraft has been set as the special guest on Ben Folds & A Piano eight-date Australian tour throughout February – March 2026.

The Rep will present Adrift in New York, a classic melodrama written by Addison Aulger, directed by the acclaimed Rose Vallen.

Theatre Company South Australia’s 2026 season – the first from new Artistic Director Petra Kalive – is a supercharged assortment of vivid theatre experiences.

Producer and writer Michael Ward has announced the cast members for his highly anticipated world premiere season of THE HAUNTING OF SPOOK MANSION (BY GHOSTS) at Chapel off Chapel this November.

Violinist Kate Suthers unveils her debut program as Artistic Director of the 2026 Coriole Music Festival, themed around “beginnings.

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has revealed its 2026 Season marking its 90th anniversary with a grand program of events that will unite audiences in a year-long musical celebration of live music.

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.

South Australian theatre royalty, media identity, and author Peter Goers will bring Mary Chase’s HARVEY to life this November in association with Holden Street Theatres.

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.

Meet the two ensembles of young actors playing the von Trapp family in the The Sound of Music at the Arts Theatre, opening Thursday, September 25, 2025.

Singer/songwriters who play guitar a bit were disappointing in a guitar festival.

We heard three remarkable musicians.

OzAsia Festival's Weekend of Words will return for another year of thought-provoking conversations and lively discussions at the largest gathering of Asian and Asian Australian writers and thinkers in the country.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Australia - Adelaide Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

Melbourne based figurative artist, portrait painter and metalsmith Sarah Anthony has been awarded the 2025 Kennedy Prize with her deeply personal painting representing the beauty of sharing family stories spanning four generations.

Following sell-out seasons in Brisbane and Singapore, Adelaide Festival Centre has announced the Adelaide premiere season of Cirque Alice, an epic new show from the creators of the global smash hit The Illusionists.

The Adelaide Festival has announced the first highlights of its 2026 program, featuring two Australian exclusives: Isabelle Huppert in Mary Said What She Said and a three-concert series by renowned French choir and orchestra Ensemble Pygmalion.

The Australian String Quartet will celebrate its 40th anniversary with BIG GIG at Adelaide Town Hall on September 28, 2025.

Ah, memories.