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Jaggi Randhawa has a superb voice and puts a great deal of emotion into the song, doing it full justice in a wonderful performance.

The State Opera of South Australia are restaging the 1997 production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. It was last seen here in 2006 and so popular is this production that it is back again.

The Adelaide Repertory Theatre Society, who operate at their own ARTS Theatre, are ending their year on a light, fun note with a melodrama last performed in Adelaide in 1988, The Mystery of the Hansom Cab.

Maggie Stone is as hard as nails, unfeeling, unloved, self-opinionated, bigoted, and a racist, who lives with only a lizard for company.

This was my first review of a Feast Festival production for this year, and I could not have asked for a better start. It is definitely one for all theatre enthusiasts.

Bluefruit Productions is a relatively new company but they show considerable potential, so catch this show and follow their future progress.

John Millington Synge's , The Playboy of the Western World, was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in 1907, and caused riots. It has not been performed in Adelaide for over thirty years, so this is a rare chance to see this play.

On the 30th October, 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a dramatisation of The War of the Worlds. Seventy five years and one day later the South Australian Radio Collective played a recording of that radio play to an audience who assembled especially to hear this work.

The Zephyr Quartet's most recent concert, at the Promethean, was a relaxed cabaret style performance of rarely heard musical works by some of the greatest film composers of the 20th century.

The eighth and final concert in the Evenings at Elder Hall concert series, Concerto for Orchestra, was a chance for the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the anniversaries of three great classical composers, Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutos?awski, and Richard Wagner.

This is another gem from Parham, following on from the great success of his previous very popular character, Schmoo, and this production, with some revision, has already had several outings through popular demand.

The Bakehouse Theatre Company is presenting The Web, directed by Yasmin Gurreeboo whose debut as director for this company with And No More Shall We Part, was a triumph. This time she has created a gripping, powerful drama involving two teenage boys and a lot of psychological mind play.

The Kegelstatt Ensemble are fast becoming one of the premier chamber ensembles in Australia and, as their most recent concert proves, deservedly so.

State Theatre once again have another successful piece of theatre on their hands, with nods and words of approval flowing as the audience left the Dunstan Playhouse at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Giuseppe Verdi's opera, filled with powerful emotions, has not been seen in Adelaide for over forty years, and this stupendous production leaves one wondering why that is so.

We rarely have a chance to see somebody as exceptionally skilled and talented in physical theatre as Gavin Robertson and, as with the other three performances so far, everybody should be fighting for tickets.

This gem from Nicholas Collett has now been played many, many times, in many, many locations and, it is safe to say, will continue to be played for a long time to come. It is pure gold.

Bond! An Unauthorised Parody, finds the man with all the technical gadgets, the smart answers, and a string of girls with extraordinary names passing through his bed, facing the greatest challenge of his career as he hunts for a super-villain and a bomb.

This s a master-class in how to write, direct, and perform a one man show, playing a number of very different characters, from varied regional backgrounds and social classes.

The latest offering from the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild is the multi-award winning Adelaide playwright and screenplay writer, Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea).