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After winning multiple Best Performance awards across New Zealand, House of Sand will return to Adelaide Fringe with Manage Your Expectation. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Samsam Bubbleman, the world’s leading expert in soap bubbles, holder of twelve Guinness World Records, with over 30 years’ experience and seen by hundreds of thousands worldwide will be performing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.

Colonel Chris Hadfield – acclaimed astronaut, test pilot, spacewalker, spaceship commander, and best-selling author – will return to Australia in June 2025 for a journey into the majesty of our planet and the vast universe beyond.

Sringaram – Tales of Love will grace the stage at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2025, bringing an intimate and breathtaking performance that explores the essence of femininity, love, and desire.

Adelaide Festival Centre is calling out for memorabilia for 50 Years of Dreaming Big, a retrospective exhibition on display in The Galleries, Festival Theatre in May.

This is a good start to Petra Kalive’s leadership.

Direct from sold-out seasons across Australia Adelaide Fringe audiences are invited to step into the sensational underground Parisian cabaret where Vogue-posing, Fosse-popping, French-lace-drenched club kittens take you on a wild ride.

Hampshire based opera singer and comedy writer Lucy Mellors is Adelaide Fringe bound with her award-winning solo show It is I, Seagull. It is I, Seagull will be performed at Holden Street Theatres, The Studio.

Award-winning playwright and Fringe favourite Philip Stokes will bring his latest play Shellshocked to Holden Street Theatres.

South African actor and Australian Global Artistic Talent Visa recipient Ben Voss will have a one night only preview of his solo show Becoming Benno at the Sandton Theatre on the Square on 24th February 2025.

Joshua Beaumont, Matthew Emeny and Roxy Dog Productions have announced that Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse For England makes its Australian debut at Holden Street Theatres as part of Adelaide Fringe 2025.

An epic tale of care, crisis and the Eurovision Song Contest is at the heart of the compelling new show Nan, Me & Barbara Pravi by acclaimed UK writer and performer Hannah Maxwell.

An internationally acclaimed controversial one-man comedy show on identity, second homes, xenophobia and bagpipes, Help! I Think I'm A Nationalist will take Adelaide Fringe 2025 by storm following sold out UK tours.

Festival Theatre is opening its doors this April to theatre aficionados, history lovers, and those eager to get a glimpse behind the curtain of Adelaide's arts and culture scene, with guided tours now on sale.

Melody Rachel will present I Wanna Be Mark Wahlberg at Adelaide Fringe Festival 2025. The solo work explores every possible avenue to get to the bottom of her relationship with masculinity. Or is it femininity? Both? Neither?

NO LOVE SONGS is a new musical by Kyle Falconer, lead singer of the Scottish band The View, which will tour Australia this year, with an exclusive season at Adelaide Festival Centre’s Space Theatre.

For the first time ever, the internationally acclaimed mentalist and mind reader Christian Lavey is bringing his mesmerizing performance to Adelaide Fringe.

Be moved, inspired, and challenged as My Body, My Choice takes centre stage at the 2025 Adelaide Fringe, written and performed by emerging comedian and storyteller Maedeh.

Following a sold-out exploration season at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne with rave reviews, FLICK will premiere at Goodwood Theatre and Studios on the opening weekend of Adelaide Fringe 2025. 

Having been a leader of independent theatrical offerings for 15 years, collecting dozens of awards across the country and acclaim all over the world, Preachrs Productions will be offering two shows in the 2025 Adelaide Fringe.

The Art Gallery of South Australia’s Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Artistic Director of Tarnanthi, Nici Cumpston OAM has announced that after seventeen years at AGSA, she will take up the position as Director of Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA in May 2025.

Due to overwhelming demand, Adelaide Cabaret Festival has announced a second solo performance by multi-Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier.

In a fusion of mime, dance, and physical theatre, acclaimed performer Joylyn Secunda will transport Adelaide Fringe audiences through the looking glass in their latest solo show, The Routine.

DreamBIG Children’s Festival will return to Adelaide Festival Centre this May, inspiring the children of South Australia to reflect on their past, present and future with the theme ‘I Was, I Am, I Will Be’, in celebration of the festival’s 50th year.

Professor Ruth Rentschler OAM MAICD has committed $500,000 bequest to Australian Dance Theatre upon completing her eight-year tenure on the company’s board.