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Huge applause throughout the evening was nothing compared to the applause at the end of the performance, signalling another worthwhile and very popular choice for the Sessions 2014 season.

You will laugh, you will be moved, you might even shed a tear or two, such is the strength of this production, and the involvement and commitment of the four performers, who fully invest themselves in this wonderful work.

This was the second in the Sessions 2014 live music series at the Adelaide Festival Centre in the Space Theatre, the Ukrainian folk-fusion group, Yellow Blue Bus.

Babylon Circus, a French band, are possibly the most charismatic and happy bunch of performers I have ever seen.

This is certainly the best production of South Pacific that I have seen, and I have seen quite a few, including being involved with three productions myself.

The seven performers bring a range of talents and skills to the stage in an action packed show that thrilled and amazed young and old alike from start to finish.

Each year, Santa arrives in Adelaide with the Christmas Pageant but, for many, Christmas really gets under way with the annual Christmas Proms.

Members of the arts community, supporters, friends, and families all turned out to find out who were going to be the winners for 2013.

A new amateur theatre company on the Adelaide scene, Growling Grin Productions, are presenting Closet Land at the intimate Bakehouse Theatre, a stage play adapted from the film of the same name.

The Adelaide Critics Circle has announced the shortlist for its 2013 annual awards.

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.