Theatre
The title is a paradox – Scored in Silence. There is no music, in fact, at crucial moments no sound at all. But its message is loud and clear. OzAsia opens with a visually intriguing theatrical experience that reminds us to hearken to the lessons of history.
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Windmill Theatre Company’s Moss Piglet takes us on an enchanting, whacky and humorous journey through the world’s vast and at times brutal environments with one of Earth’s smallest creatures.
A stage adaptation of the popular coming-of-age story Looking for Alibrandi, Tennessee Williams’ American classic The Glass Menagerie and a festival of new South Australian plays join the return season of The Dictionary of Lost Words as highlights of State Theatre’s 2025 season.
With decades of fandom to live up to, the latest staging of Grease reaches – and exceeds – the mark in some wonderful ways, but fun times and good vibes don’t create cult status here.
Holden Street Theatres’ latest triumph – a new production of Patrick White’s satirical play A Cheery Soul – is as absurd as it is touching, as challenging as it is utterly hilarious.
This highly-entertaining reconstruction (and deconstruction) of My Fair Lady takes comedic and confessional detours through artist Mish Grigor’s life, landing the show’s class commentary squarely on Australian shores.
Libidinal energy, jealousy and margaritas abound in David Williamson’s new comedy The Puzzle, but it may leave you wanting more.
Australian playwright Kendall Feaver’s award-winning play The Almighty Sometimes is about to be brought to the Adelaide stage for the first time, and actor Emily Liu hopes it will open up some important conversations among audiences.
Ahead of the Adelaide premiere of his new play about ‘sex, secrecy and second chances’, playwright David Williamson and cast member Ansuya Nathan speak to InReview about comedy, cruises, middle-class foibles and upside-down pineapples.
This solo work, written and brilliantly performed by Chris Pitman, explores how, in our midst, the lives of many are beached and marooned.
The end of the journey is nigh for Slingsby, with the award-winning Adelaide theatre company announcing that its current project – scheduled to premiere at the 2026 Adelaide Festival – will be its last.
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Encounters with people he met at isolated campgrounds on surfing trips in South Australia and elsewhere helped actor and writer Chris Pitman carve a story about a man stuck on the edge of the world.
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Justine Clarke is mesmerising as she fiercely inhabits the life of Julia Gillard in playwright Joanna Murray-Smith’s creative biography of the former prime minister.
State Theatre Company South Australia has become the latest local arts organisation to face a leadership change with the announcement that Mitchell Butel will leave in November following the end of his six-year tenure as artistic director.
Bjorn Again is more than just a tribute band as they travel the country spreading the complete gospel of ABBA.
Harking back to the Jazz Age of the late 1920s, Chicago is full of fizz and low comedy, great song and dance performances, and has a shrewd edge intended to make us think, even as we enjoy the razzle dazzle.
The Great Detectives are hitting the road to spread mystery, intrigue, comedy and chaos across South Australia as they celebrate the 10th anniversary of a live show that pays tribute to the popular radio dramas of the 1950s.
State Theatre Company SA presents the world premiere of the latest collaboration between playwright Van Badham and composer Richard Wise – a delightful rom-com in which hope for love and intimacy in this disconnected world springs eternal.
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Justine Clarke says it feels like an atonement to hear the story of former PM Julia Gillard’s famous misogyny speech brought to life in Julia – a play the actor describes as “brilliantly poetic and very funny, too”.
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He may be best known for his role on Kath & Kim, but actor and comedian Peter Rowsthorn is also a talented singer who is set to show his chops when Chicago the Musical opens in Adelaide.
Blasting ’90s references from Sonic Youth to Lionel Richie, Laughter Through the Tears Productions brings this delightfully SA-focussed coming-of-age tale to the stage.
This new sci-fi play by Adelaide’s Madness of Two uses visual effects and live performance to give us a glimpse of a frightening version of the world more than a hundred years into the future.
This hit musical whodunnit is a frenetic and hilarious two-handed winner.
Cassie Hamilton’s ingenious new musical confronts complex sociopolitical issues without failing to be highly entertaining and heartfelt.
InReview
Wonders never cease in the latest Cirque du Soleil event to hit town: a spectacle of technical and bodily ingenuity in the Mexican-inspired setting of LUZIA.
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As awareness of the gendered-violence crisis spreads across Australia, Adelaide’s ActNow Theatre is devising a play to help the next generation do better.
In a rare bringing together of top-class theatrical and musical talent, State Opera South Australia and State Theatre Company South Australia’s Candide is an absolute scorcher.
Slapstick, Noel Coward’s sheer wit, and effete satire take the Holden Street stage with Cowardy, Cowardy Custard.
Funding support designed to develop new work or kickstart a creative project can sometimes be the difference between doing it, or not.
Musical theatre star Caroline O’Connor is excited to take to the stage with Candide, an operetta made on a grand scale through a collaboration between State Theatre Company SA, State Opera and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
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John Waters and Daniel MacPherson deliver timeless gothic chills with an Australian production of this supernatural West End classic.
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State Theatre brings Hew Parham’s hilarious and highly successful one-man show back to the Adelaide Festival Centre with this heart-warming story about cycling, heroism and the many faces of success.
Windmill Theatre Company’s Creation Creation is a show that playfully and creatively explores some of life’s biggest questions.
For the many Tina Turner fans who believe her story is best told with key songs from her career, a terrific vehicle has arrived in the form of this vibrant musical.
When long-time friends Judith Lucy and Kaz Cooke decided to present a live comedy show about menopause combining jokes, stories and ‘useful chats’, they had no idea it would be embraced with almost evangelical fervour.
The return of the most terrifying live theatre experience in the world – The Woman in Black – also ushers the return to the stage of a much-loved Aussie icon
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In Pride in Prejudice, some of the satire is apt and cutting, some of it falls off the proverbial cliff – such is the death-or-glory of comedy and politics.
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When detective story turns into family drama in the stage adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, you’re in for a surprise.
In her first leading role in a major musical, Ruva Ngwenya inhabits the life of Tina Turner, channelling the emotional highs and lows that defined the iconic singer’s life and belting out the big hits that shaped her success.
The audience is primed for discomfort from the outset in this intense two-hander.
In his compelling monologue, Édouard Louis meticulously describes a childhood ruined by poverty, abuse, and alienation. He blames his father but comes to realise there are also much larger social and structural cruelties in play.
This sharp new play from a team of young Adelaide theatre-makers is a guide to the grease, grime, and glory of making a living in restaurant work. ★★★★
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Astrid Pill & Collaborators’ unconventional and highly original monologue reflects on mortality, grief and the relationships we have with lovers after they are gone.
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In Barrie Kosky’s new version, The Threepenny Opera has had a haircut and a makeover but the satire is still in there, along with Kurt Weill’s splendid music.
Expect the unexpected with Miriam Margolyes, who is hitting the road with a tour of Australia in a new show in which she promises there will be no singing or dancing.
The delightful Grand Theft Theatre manages to capture the joy and significance of theatre while also eschewing the pretension that sometimes surrounds it.
When a high-flying chef swoops in to buy their restaurant, the staff have to work hard to prove that they should stay part of the team in Deus Ex Femina’s Adelaide Fringe play Dirty Energy.
Described as a visual meditation on mourning, Goodbye, Lindita eloquently, and sometimes convulsively, expresses feeling and wonder about the mystery of death – without uttering a single word.
