Adelaide Festival
Acclaimed director Simon Stone’s opera Innocence – which sees the intertwined stories of a wedding and a school shooting in Helsinki unfold via a multi-level rotating set – is one of the first three shows announced for the 2025 Adelaide Festival.
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SALA’s Slide Night provides artists with the platform to share a snapshot of their artistic practices, bodies of work, advice… and just about anything else.
A movie based on the ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’ endured by Australian war correspondent Peter Greste after his arrest in Egypt in 2013 will open this year’s Adelaide Film Festival, with Greste and star Richard Roxburgh both set to attend the world premiere screening at Piccadilly Cinemas.
Spanish guitar virtuoso Paco Peña has returned to Australia to perform his iconic requiem that celebrates the world’s glories but also delivers a critical message.
South Australia’s underwater world can be viewed in a different light through a new series of photos by Narelle Autio that were captured beneath jetties along the coastline and present the ocean as a place of transformation and allure.
A record 700-plus exhibitions will be presented across Adelaide and regional South Australia during the 2024 SALA Festival. We’ve selected eight shows to whet your appetite for the month-long smorgasbord of visual art.
A Taylor Swift drag queen impersonator, a moving portrayal of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, a live Bollywood blockbuster and a Singaporean ‘wedding’ will be among highlights of the 2024 OzAsia Festival program.
Audiences came in from the cold for this special concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Adelaide Guitar Festival Orchestra and featuring a line-up of musicians including flautist Jane Rutter and guitarist Giuseppe Zangari.
The global boom in Nordic noir focused on Denmark and Sweden but has spread beyond to include the smaller countries of Finland, Norway and Iceland, with all five in the spotlight during this year’s Scandinavian Film Festival.
Compagnie Carabosse’s Fire Gardens engages all the senses as visitors make their way through the myriad flaming sculptures illuminating Adelaide Botanic Garden.
Whether you want to party like it’s 1599 with Renaissance art, explore the fiery spectacle taking over the Botanic Garden or get immersed in a multi-sensory live performance, InReview has selected five highlights from Illuminate’s 2024 program.
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France’s Compagnie Carabosse will make its first winter visit to Australia with Fire Gardens during Illuminate Adelaide. Artistic director Christian Cuomo tells InReview what visitors can expect from the blazing spectacle in the Botanic Garden.
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The Adelaide Guitar Festival will return in September with a line-up ranging from a star-studded Rolling Stones celebration to a showcase of First Nations country music and a concert take on The Princess Bride.
Get set for unscripted hilarity at this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival as performer Michelle Brasier and her co-star Ben Russell pull famous comedians on stage and put them through their paces in “auditions” for a country musical.
She Speaks was back again this year with an especially inspired choice of music, highlighting that attitudes towards female composers still need to change.
Celebrated stage and television actress Christie Whelan Browne talks to InReview about her upcoming show Life in Plastic at Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and her connection with the late, great Olivia Newton-John.
A movie filmed amid the wild natural landscapes of Kangaroo Island is one of five new made-in-SA films showcased by Adelaide Film Festival at the Festival de Cannes. InReview spoke to the director about his film.
Film & TV
History from a deeply personal lens in From Hilde, With Love launches the German Film Festival as it celebrates both contemporary cinema and titans like Werner Herzog, whose gothic vampire film Nosferatu the Vampyre has never been bettered.
Cabaret Festival
Singer Michelle Pearson will explore her personal battles with body image – as well as society’s obsession with “skinny” – in an empowering new cabaret show featuring pop, power ballads and comedy.
An old box with handwritten letters from the late 19th century was the catalyst for Rob George’s new documentary telling the story of Adelaide’s Advanced School for Girls and the far-reaching impact it had on the lives of South Australian women.
Singing Renaissance portraits on the Art Gallery of SA facade, a fiery night-time ‘wonderland’ in the Botanic Garden and prehistoric creatures roaming Adelaide Zoo will be among highlights of the 2024 Illuminate Adelaide festival.
An exhibition showcasing Adelaide’s oldest movie cinemas not only shines a light on their important architectural contribution to South Australia, it also reflects their significance as glamorous social hubs over the decades.
A string of female vocal powerhouses including Lisa Simone, Patti LuPone, Kate Miller-Heidke and Mahalia Barnes lead the 2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival program, but there’s also an eclectic – and electric – line-up of other artists to discover.
Peace may seem elusive in some of the works in the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, writes John Neylon. Nonetheless, there is plenty to capture the interest and stir the emotions of a broad audience.
Adelaide Festival
There was something for everyone in the giant festival finale that the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra cooked up on the weekend. With electronic music duo Electric Fields, the Floods of Fire concert was a joyous occasion.
Film & TV
A two-part film about the legendary Three Musketeers – one starring former ‘Bond Girl’ Eva Green – gets the French Film Festival off to a swashbuckling start, but this year’s fare also includes romance, science fiction and a touch of culinary magic.
New York-based artist Elizabeth Streb has been challenging the notion of being ‘right way up’ since the 1970s. In an Australian premiere, performers will fling and fly their way around her ‘action machines’ in a spectacle of awe, danger and discipline.
The work of 20 mid-career South Australian artists is on display in a fascinating exhibition at Adelaide Railway Station that, in its second iteration, is positioning itself as an important part of the Adelaide Festival program.
The stars aligned for readers on Saturday night with four literary luminaries converging on stage to open Adelaide Writers’ Week with a fascinating discussion of power, writing and finding truth in complicated times.
Miraculous in its originality, The Nightingale and Other Fables wins both the heart and mind in the exquisiteness of its storytelling.
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WOMADelaide is the place to make new music discoveries, and ahead of this year’s event Annette Tripodi shares tips for some must-see acts spanning Ukrainian folk, Balkans ska-rock, West African funk and more.
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The latest work from Adelaide-based Australian Dance Theatre aims to help people see through the smoke and mirrors of our national discussions about race to find the core of who we are.
