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Julia
Julia
8/16 - 8/31/2024


In 2012, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, gave a speech that sent shockwaves around the world. Just over a decade later, one of ...

The Puzzle
The Puzzle
9/20 - 10/12/2024


All aboard for the world premiere of a dazzling new comedy from Australia’s most prolific and venerated playwright, David Williamson. When the Dunstan Playhouse opened ...

Jack Maggs
Jack Maggs
11/15 - 11/30/2024


Step back in time to 19th-century London, where intrigue and mystery mix in the world premiere of  Jack Maggs.  Peter Carey’s best-selling and Miles Franklin ...


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Review: ANTIGONE IN THE AMAZON – ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2024 at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - March 16, 2024

The most important work in this year’s Adelaide Festival....

Celebrate UNESCO International Jazz Day At Adelaide Festival Centre


by A.A. Cristi - March 11, 2024

Celebrate UNESCO International Jazz Day at Adelaide Festival Centre. Join the global jazz community in a day of music, education and cultural diplomacy, featuring top jazz artists....

Review: THE CHILDREN at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - February 08, 2024

A well-crafted production directed by Corey McMahon...

THE CHILDREN Comes to State Theatre Company South Australia Next Month


by Stephi Wild - January 16, 2024

State Theatre Company South Australia will present the SA premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children in February, kickstarting its jam-packed 2024 season....

Adelaide Festival Centre's Students Got Talent Winners Revealed


by Stephi Wild - November 27, 2023

The brightest rising stars shone on the Dunstan Playhouse stage over the weekend, as Adelaide Festival Centre's Students Got Talent show celebrated its third year....

More Than 180,000 Fans, Families, and Foodies Attend OzAsia Festival 2023


by Stephi Wild - November 06, 2023

OzAsia Festival and the In Other Words program finished on a high last night, with more than 180,000 attendances across 190 indoor and outdoor events, showcasing the best of Asian and Asian Australian performance across a wide range of genres including theatre, music, dance, comedy, community events...

IN OTHER WORDS Writing And Ideas Program And Bubble Tea Garden Return For OzAsia Festival's Final Weekend


by A.A. Cristi - November 01, 2023

In Other Words writing and ideas program and Bubble Tea Garden return for OzAsia Festival’s final weekend. The program features discussions on race, power, community, and more with over 60 Asian and Asian Australian writers. Visitors can also enjoy bubble tea at the Lucky Dumpling Market....

Review: 我咽下一枚铁做的月亮 - I SWALLOWED A MOON MADE OF IRON – OZASIA FESTIVAL 2023 at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - October 26, 2023

This was a deeply moving and most memorable performance....

OzAsia Festival Celebrates More Than 85,000 Opening Week Attendances Including 35,000 at Moon Lantern Trail


by Stephi Wild - October 24, 2023

Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival is celebrating attendances of more than 85,000 across the first four days of performances and community events at Adelaide Festival Centre and around the Riverbank precinct....

Adelaide Festival Centre Will Host The Don Dunstan Lecture Series As Part Of 50th Anniversary Celebrations


by Stephi Wild - October 16, 2023

A new thought-provoking talk series, discussing the influence of the arts – The Don Dunstan Lectures - has been announced by Adelaide Festival Centre in partnership with Don Dunstan Foundation, Adelaide University and Flinders University. Learn more about the series of events here!...

Past Shows

Friends! The Musical Parody
Friends! The Musical Parody
5/4 - 5/15/2022


Made our day, our month, and even our year! E! NewsThe hilarious New York and Las Vegas hit Friends! The Musical Parody is finally touring ...

Guess How Much I Love You
12/19 - 12/21/2021


Life-size puppets, gentle narration and beautifully scored original music bring these two award-winning stories to life on stage. In Sam McBratney's Guess How Much I ...

The 13-Storey Treehouse
12/14 - 12/16/2021

Gaslight
9/4 - 9/19/2020


Bella Manningham is on edge. She’s hearing footsteps in the night, pictures are moving by themselves and the gaslights in the drawing room dim without ...

The Writer
7/15 - 8/1/2020


A young female playwright and an older male director find themselves alone in an empty theatre one night. She wants a new form of theatre ...

The 91-Storey Treehouse
7/7 - 7/11/2020


Andy and Terry’s Treehouse has reached an amazing 91 Stories! It’s now more fantastically dangerous than ever, with a deserted desert island, a whirlpool, and ...

Single Asian Female
4/23 - 5/9/2020


Inside the Golden Phoenix, a humble Chinese restaurant on the Sunshine Coast, two generations of Wong women stand at a crossroads. Mei is getting ready ...


Australian politics are in peril and there’s only one man who can save it. Luckily a window has opened up in his very busy schedule. ...

Senior Moments 2
2/4 - 2/8/2020


The smash hit “Senior Moments” is back in a senior sequel without equal: “Senior Moments 2!” Australian showbiz legends Max Gillies, Tony Barber and Normie ...

Senior Moments 2: Remember, Remember


The smash hit Senior Moments is back in a senior sequel without equal: Senior Moments 2! Australian showbiz legends Max Gillies, Tony Barber and Normie ...

Nouvelle Vague


Parisian punk-pop-outfit Nouvelle Vague return to Adelaide Festival Centre with their unique blend of dreamy French noir cool for their 15th Anniversary tour.It was in ...

Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm
12/3


Presented by Adelaide Festival CentreFollowing the announcement of his new EP Encores 3 and album All Encores, German composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nils Frahm will ...

Black is the New White
Black is the New White
11/13 - 12/1/2019


Black is the New White is a laugh-out-loud, provocative new romantic comedy by fearless columnist and an award-winning playwright Nakkiah Lui....

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
10/3 - 10/12/2019


Mix an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of vintage Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a hilarious ...

Jasper Jones
Jasper Jones
8/16 - 9/7/2019


Let’s begin with a cracker play for any Australian, of any age*, and any creed. We’d love you all to come. The backblocks of Western ...

A View from the Bridge
A View from the Bridge
7/12 - 8/3/2019


Set in 1950s Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone harbors a subconscious and jealous affection for his niece, Catherine, whom he is raising with his wife. When ...

Hydra
Hydra
5/1 - 5/19/2019

The Gods of Strangers
The Gods of Strangers
11/14 - 12/2/2018


When a stranger comes to your door, you let them in. They might be a god in disguise. It’s 1947 and two women in Port ...

Cranky Bear
Cranky Bear
10/9 - 10/13/2018


Join flamboyant friends Zebra, Lion and Moose as they do their darndest to cheer up Cranky Bear in this delightful stage adaptation by Patch Theatre. ...

That Eye, The Sky
That Eye, The Sky
8/24 - 9/16/2018


Ort Flack is 12 years old and trying to make sense of life in a small country town in Western Australia. After his father is ...

Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
5/4 - 5/26/2018


Kate Hamill’s sparkling adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen on theatrical steroids. In the hands of the State Theatre Company Ensemble it will ...

After Dinner
After Dinner
4/7 - 4/29/2018


A knock out comedy from master playwright Andrew Bovell (The Secret River, Things I Know To Be True) following five eccentric lonely hearts in a ...

The Great War
The Great War
3/8 - 3/11/2018


Dutch live-animation theatre company Hotel Modern, whose chilling production Kamp from the 2013 Adelaide Festival lives in many memories, again confronts profound horror with a ...

Memorial
Memorial
3/1 - 3/6/2018


Written, like Homer’s poem to be spoken aloud, Oswald’s universally lauded Memorial strips the narrative from the Iliad and concentrates on personalising the deaths of ...

Senior Moments
Senior Moments
2/6 - 2/10/2018


John Wood, Benita Collings & Max Gillies are having some Senior Moments, with Geoff Harvey on piano Senior Moments is a comedy revue, with sketches ...

Vale
Vale
11/17 - 12/3/2017


Joseph Vale is on top of the world. The self-made head of an eponymous hotel empire, he’s all set to spend New Year’s Eve toasting ...

Switzerland
Switzerland
10/20 - 11/5/2017


A hit when it premiered at Sydney Theatre Company in 2015, Joanna Murray Smith’s (The Female of the Species) play places Highsmith front and centre ...

The End
The End
10/3 - 10/4/2017


Experience the world’s first virtual opera, performed by cultural phenomenon Hatsune Miku, a vocaloid singer and one of the biggest popstars in the world. With ...

Macbeth
Macbeth
8/25 - 9/16/2017


Macbeth. The perfect embodiment of ego and ambition? Or a grief stricken soldier trying to fill a hole in his heart that has no end? ...

A Doll's House
A Doll's House
6/30 - 7/22/2017


By Henrik Ibsen, in a new adaptation by Elena Carapetis...

Tartuffe
Tartuffe
11/4 - 11/20/2016


A comedy about self-serving, truth-denying, power-seeking hypocrites never gets old. Orgon leads a blissful, happy life. His extravagant and wealthy lifestyle is perfectly complemented by ...

Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin
10/11 - 10/31/2016


Our very own ‘Little Bird’ Paul Capsis returns as one of folklore’s great villains in a deliciously wicked spin on a dark and devilish tale ...

Vertigo 20
Vertigo 20
9/30 - 10/1/2016


Moving between realism and surrealism, Vertigo 20 conveys a hypnotic physicality that has been the hallmark of this world-renowned dance company from Israel. Piecing together ...

Split Flow & Holistic Strata
Split Flow & Holistic Strata
9/27 - 9/28/2016


A blistering storm of frenetic pixels. An optical dancer plays with the duality of light. Cutting edge digital multimedia. Choreographer and dancer Hiroaki Umeda is ...

As If To Nothing
As If To Nothing
9/22 - 9/24/2016


As If To Nothing is a sublime examination of modernity, unique rhythms and psychological tension. Fourteen of Hong Kong’s best contemporary dancers delve into a ...

Amazing India


Amazing India – A local artists’ production that takes you through a journey of Indian classical, contemporary, folk as well as Bollywood songs and dances ...

The Red Cross Letters - State Extra


A profoundly moving insight into the human cost of the Great War for those who waited at home. Based on a collection held at State ...

Akmal
Akmal
7/15 - 7/17/2016


Akmal returns to Adelaide because he owes a lot of money and the debt collectors have promised that if payment isn’t made they will break ...

Things I Know To Be True
Things I Know To Be True
5/12 - 6/4/2016


A powerful family drama from Australia’s master playwright. The Price family appear to be living the Australian dream—a loving household in a solid brick house ...

Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
4/13 - 5/1/2016


A funny and moving new play about a couple learning to love again in the face of adversity, starring the sparkling Lisa McCune. Machu Picchu ...

60 Years Of Buddy Holly


Buddy Holly was an innovator. He pioneered and popularized Rock N Roll as we know it today. Happy Days Records presents Buddy: In Concert, 60 ...

Ingrid Fliter Recital


One of the world’s most stunning young pianists brings her art to Adelaide for an exclusive recital. Ingrid Fliter is an Argentine pianist of the ...

Cash 60
Cash 60
11/14


On September 1, 1954 an unknown young man walked into the recording studio in the Memphis Recording Service building at 706 Union Ave, Memphis, Tennessee ...

Lawrence Mooney


WINNER BEST SHOW SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL 2015 BARRY AWARD NOMINEE 2015 – MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL As seen on Dirty Laundry Live and It’s A ...

Mortido
Mortido
10/16 - 10/31/2015


Mortido is a revenge tragedy, crime thriller and contemporary morality play all rolled into one featuring stage legend Colin Friels. It begins with a Mexican ...

Play
Play
10/2 - 10/3/2015


Legendary choreographer Pina Bausch championed the work of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa, inviting them to collaborate; and Play is the result. Merging the ...

Volpone (or The Fox)
Volpone (or The Fox)
8/21 - 9/12/2015


Meet Volpone—wealthy con-artist, master of disguise and self-proclaimed ladies man. Armed with natural cunning and his wily sidekick Mosca, he tricks and swindles his way ...

Betrayal
Betrayal
7/24 - 8/15/2015


1977. Emma is married to Robert. But for seven years, she’s been having an affair with Jerry, Robert’s best friend. Betrayal begins after the end ...

Australian Dance Theatre 50th Anniversary Gala


Australian Dance Theatre is Australia’s first contemporary dance company. Its Artistic Directors over the last 50 years are some of the most acclaimed choreographers in ...

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll


Every summer for sixteen years, cane cutters Barney and Roo have come back from Queensland to suburban Melbourne to share their holidays with barmaids Nancy ...

Charlie & Lola’s Extremely New Play


Live Nation are extremely excited to announce the return to Australia of everyone’s favourite brother & sister, Charlie & Lola, in BBC Worldwide & Polka ...

Robin Ince
Robin Ince
4/11


The Atheist Foundation of Australia is excited to be bringing Robin Ince – Happiness Through Science to Australia in April 2015. Best known for presenting ...

Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax
4/8


Having trouble with your own mind? Motor mouth American Ruby Wax can help. Based on her No. 1 bestselling book Sane New World: Taming the ...

The Importance of Being Miriam


She’s back! After both conquering and falling in love with Adelaide during the 2014 season of Neighbourhood Watch, the irrepressible Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter movies, ...

Videos


The Puzzle in Australia - Adelaide The Puzzle
Dunstan Playhouse (9/20 - 10/12)
Kala Gare in Concert in Australia - Adelaide Kala Gare in Concert
Nexus Arts (5/3 - 5/3)
Jack Maggs in Australia - Adelaide Jack Maggs
Dunstan Playhouse (11/15 - 11/30)
The Wharf Revue: Pride In Prejudice in Australia - Adelaide The Wharf Revue: Pride In Prejudice
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre (4/8 - 4/13)
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Candide in Australia - Adelaide Candide
Her Majesty's Theatre (5/23 - 5/25)
ANGELS IN AMERICA in Australia - Adelaide ANGELS IN AMERICA
Little Theatre (5/2 - 5/25)
The Woman In Black in Australia - Adelaide The Woman In Black
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre (5/15 - 5/26)
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