Neil Armfield News

BroadwayWorld has just received a statement from the creative team behind CARMEN, Gale Edwards, Brian Thomson AM, and Julie Lynch, concerning Opera Australia's production

The debut Adelaide Festival from Joint Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy concludes today with a bang, setting a new record with the biggest box office takings in the event's 57-year history.

To say that she is versatile is an understatement.

After playing to sold-out audiences around the country and unanimous critical acclaim, multi-award winning play The Secret River has continued its extraordinary success at the 2017 Adelaide Festival, selling out its season with nine performances to go.

There is not a weak link anywhere in this production.

A crowd of around 15,000 is expected to help ring in the 2017 Adelaide Festival's mammoth opening weekend tomorrow (Sunday March 5), as music legend Neil Finn performs a free twilight concert on the Adelaide Riverbank. 

The debut Adelaide Festival from Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy will mark a return to artistic works on a grand scale, with epic opera, theatrical spectacle under the stars and the biggest and most ambitious Festival hub in the event's history all set to dazzle in the 2017 program.

Incredible interactive art sensation House of Mirrors, US singer-songwriter Kurt Vile, US godfather of chillwave Toro Y Moi and Aussie music legends The Bamboos are all set to rock the Adelaide Festival's newest and most exciting venue, the Riverbank Palais and surrounding Parc Palais, as part of its exciting first program, unveiled today.

The countdown is on to the 2017 Adelaide Festival's opening weekend, with a whole host of events starting tomorrow to ring in the debut festival for Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy.

In exciting news for young arts lovers, the Adelaide Festival has announced a new round of discounted tickets especially for students to an exclusive presentation of Barrie Kosky's sold out masterpiece opera, Saul, on Wednesday March 1. 

Just seven days out from its opening weekend the 2017 Adelaide Festival has already made history by breaking the $3 million mark in box office sales, the largest sales for Adelaide Festival in over 20 years.

The 2017 Adelaide Festival is now more accessible than ever, with teenagers able to see shows for as little as $5, and concession card holders able to name their own price for deeply discounted tickets to selected performances.

Performance Space 122 and New York Live Arts present the U.S. premiere of Jack Charles V The Crown by award-winning indigenous Australian actor, musician, and activist Jack Charles, who spent a significant portion of his 72 years homeless, an addict, a thief and a regular throughout the Australian prison system. These performances mark the U.S. debut of 'the grandfather of Indigenous theatre,' (The Guardian). After New York, Jack Charles V The Crown will run March 29-April 8 at Canada Stage in Toronto.

Incredible interactive art sensation House of Mirrors, US singer-songwriter Kurt Vile, US godfather of chillwave Toro Y Moi and Aussie music legends The Bamboos are all set to rock the Adelaide Festival's newest and most exciting venue, the Riverbank Palais and surrounding Parc Palais, as part of its exciting first program, unveiled today.

???????One of the world's greatest living singer-songwriters and front man of legendary bands Crowded House and Split Enz Neil Finn will kick off the 2017 Adelaide Festival with a free opening weekend concert at the Adelaide Riverbank on Sunday, March 5.

Contemporary dance lovers have shown their support of the 2017 Adelaide Festival program, with Canadian dance production Betroffenheit selling out its season six weeks before the Festival's opening weekend.

Lyric Opera of Chicago presents a new production of The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote), Mozart's enchanting opera about the triumph of good over evil. The Magic Flute opens tomorrow, December 10, with eleven performances through January 27 at Lyric's Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Lyric Opera of Chicago presents a new production of The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's beloved, enchanting opera about the triumph of good over evil.  

Lyric Opera of Chicago presents an all-new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute just in time for the holidays, December 10, 2016 - January 27, 2017.

Artistic Director, Peter Evans, has announced the first production for 2017 for Bell Shakespeare.