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More Than $164 Million Generated For South Australia in Adelaide Festival Centre's 50th Year


by Stephi Wild - October 29, 2024

Adelaide Festival Centre recorded attendances of over 1 million in its 50th year in 2023, generating more than $164 million for South Australia. ...

Review: THE LEFTOVERS at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - October 04, 2024

The four dancers interpreted Zoe Gay's choreography with extraordinary skill and athleticism....

Review: SHORE BREAK at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - September 04, 2024

Chris Pitman’s achievement is mighty....

OzAsia Festival Reveals 2024 Program


by Stephi Wild - August 01, 2024

OzAsia Festival, Australia’s leading contemporary arts festival engaging with Asia, will return to Adelaide Festival Centre from October 24 to November 10....

Adelaide Guitar Festival 2024 Program Revealed


by Stephi Wild - June 11, 2024

Adelaide Guitar Festival has announced its 2024 program which features the world’s finest guitar players representing the very best in classical, blues, rock, jazz, flamenco, country and more presented by Adelaide Festival Centre from September 12 to 29, with performances at Adelaide Festival Centre...

SYMPHONIE OF THE BICYCLE Comes to Adelaide in May


by Stephi Wild - April 23, 2024

After a sell-out Tour Down Under season in 2023, Brink’s Symphonie of the Bicycle comes racing back to the Space Theatre in May with the support of State Theatre Company South Australia’s State Educate program....

New South Australian Play HITS Will Debut at Adelaide Festival Centre's Space Theatre


by Stephi Wild - April 12, 2024

Created by writer and director Rebecca Meston, with developmental assistance from Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE program and presentation support through Arts SA,Hits is a love-letter from your teenage self to that song, that artist or that person who came to you at your most awkward and misunde...

Review: 1988 – OZASIA FESTIVAL 2023 at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - October 24, 2023

A fascinating and captivating performance....

Anna Goldsworthy's WELCOME TO YOUR NEW LIFE Caps Off State Theatre Company South Australia's 2023 Season


by A.A. Cristi - October 09, 2023

Award-winning classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy's captivating memoir about motherhood unfolds on stage in November as a life-affirming new play with music....

Review: EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre


by Barry Lenny - May 03, 2023

Jimi Bani is totally loveable....

Past Shows

Shore Break
Shore Break
9/3 - 9/7/2024


Shore Break  tells the story of a man brought up in an emotionally illiterate, culturally bereft world. Bumping through childhood and adolescence into adulthood, he ...

The Questions
The Questions
7/26 - 8/17/2024


She has a master’s degree in Gender Studies. He thinks Jordan Peterson would make an ideal dinner guest. They both realise this blind date is ...

Symphonie of the Bicycle
Symphonie of the Bicycle
5/14 - 5/25/2024


Over 200 years ago a volcano erupts over Indonesia spreading an ash cloud all the way to Europe, to the home of inventor Karl Von ...

FEMME
FEMME
6/3 - 6/5/2021


From the catwalks of Paris to the office boardroom, South Australian choreographer/performer Erin Fowler presents FEMME, a deeply personal work that explores the stereotypes of ...

Behzod Abduraimov: Morgans International Piano Series


The Master of all he surveys according to The Times, Uzbekistans Behzod Abduraimov has performed with the likes of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, ...

Faith Healer
Faith Healer
9/26 - 10/13/2018


The Fantastic Francis Hardy: charming charlatan and showman or intermittently-gifted miracle worker? Accompanied by his wife (or maybe mistress) Grace, and ex-vaudevillian manager Teddy, Francis ...

Terrestrial
Terrestrial
5/23 - 6/2/2018


Liddy, a teenage alien obsessive, and her mum arrive in a remote South Australian town seeking escape. What they find is a community collapsing in ...

AZZA
AZZA
3/14 - 3/18/2018


An old man dies and azza - the Palestinian mourning ritual - begins. Six men gather to pay their respects: sharing memories, dredging up old ...

Us/Them
Us/Them
3/8 - 3/12/2018


In September 2004 a group of terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, Russia taking hundreds of children hostage. The ensuing siege lasted three days and ...

Thyestes
Thyestes
3/2 - 3/7/2018


When this young Australian was awarded his Olivier Award in 2017, Simon Stone was already among the handful of most sought after theatre directors in ...

Big Bad Wolf
Big Bad Wolf
10/11 - 10/21/2017


Presented by Windmill Theatre Co in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre. He’s the most misunderstood character in fairytale history. Put simply he has no ...

Hot Brown Factory
Hot Brown Factory
9/26 - 9/30/2017


With lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment, this smash-hit genre-defying firecracker of a show returns to Adelaide after sell-out seasons in Edinburgh, ...

Dracula
Dracula
9/7 - 9/16/2017


Another bloody classic. The Gothic horror story swoops the country in a gripping, critically-acclaimed production created by shake & stir. When young Lawyer Jonathan Harker ...

Beep
Beep
8/24 - 9/3/2017


Presented by Windmill Theatre Co in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre A slightly sideways tale about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit and learning ...

Cry God For Harry
Cry God For Harry
8/4 - 8/12/2017


Henry V was seen by Shakespeare as the ideal king. However, as a teenager, he led a wild, dissolute life, frequenting the taverns of London ...

Sista Girl
Sista Girl
5/30 - 6/3/2017


Two young women meet face to face for the first time across the bed of a dying man. Strangers to each other but bonded by ...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
8/19 - 9/11/2016


The world-wide hit that brings John Buchan’s classic book and Hitchcock’s legendary film to life in an hysterical stage adaptation. The debonair Richard Hannay is ...

Straight White Men
Straight White Men
7/1 - 7/23/2016


A deliciously bent sit-com that brilliantly interrogates cultural privilege, from one of America’s most exciting theatre makers. The widowed Ed welcomes home his three middle ...

Gorgon - State Ed
Gorgon - State Ed
5/3 - 5/26/2016


An exciting portrait of teenage life by Adelaide favourite Elena Carapetis in her State Theatre Company playwriting debut. Meet Lee and Maz. Best mates, invulnerable. ...

TAHA
TAHA
3/15 - 3/18/2016


TAHA is a deeply personal story from beguiling writer-performer Amer Hlehel. He recreates the life of Taha Muhammed Ali, a man who would one day ...

The Popular Mechanicals
The Popular Mechanicals
11/6 - 11/28/2015


Shakespeare’s greatest clowns—the rude mechanicals from A Midsummer Night’s Dream— take centre-stage in this wild reimagining of what might have happened off-stage during the Bard’s ...

Intimacy
Intimacy
10/28 - 10/31/2015


Michelle Ryan started dancing when she was four years old, and went on to be one of Australia’s most celebrated dancers. At 30, at the ...

The Aspirations of Daise Morrow
The Aspirations of Daise Morrow
10/10 - 10/24/2015


At the funeral of the scandalous Daise Morrow, Daise herself wanders amongst the mourners, hovering between memory and rumour. Over the fence two young dreamers ...

The Book of Loco
The Book of Loco
8/14 - 8/22/2015


Master storyteller Alirio Zavarce plays Loco, his own out-of-control alter ego, and in side-splitting, heartbreaking detail, chronicles his real life descent into genuine madness. From ...

Festival of Faith


Festival of Faith represents a kaleidoscope of festivities celebrated by communities around the globe. This show is about the power of music and dance to ...

Piano Lessons
Piano Lessons
6/6 - 6/8/2015


Concert pianist Anna Goldsworthy’s deeply-felt memoir, Piano Lessons, comes to glorious musical life. Goldsworthy's award-winning book, which recounts her musical awakening as a young girl, ...

This Is Where We Live
This Is Where We Live
5/12 - 5/16/2015


Brought up on the wrong side of the tracks with an unrelenting limp, Chloe has had to develop a vicious outer-shell to shield against daily ...

La Merda
La Merda
3/5 - 3/8/2015


Marta Ceresoli, Richard Jordan Productions and Produzioni Fuorivia A naked Silvia Gallerano sings and howls this provocative text, presenting a deeply personal story as an ...

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End Game in Australia - Adelaide End Game
The Lab at Fool's Paradise (3/19 - 3/23)
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