After much Wishin' and Hopin', performer Baylie Carson returns home to Adelaide in her professional debut, 'Dusty the Musical' at the Festival Theatre. Growing up in both Adelaide and the La…
Musical theatre veteran Johanna Allen, who performing onstage as Sister Sophia in Australian tour of The Sound of Music, will be promoted to the coveted role of Mother Abbess for th…
This year's Adelaide Cabaret Festival is all about 'What Comes Next' " what comes next for the festival's home, the Adelaide Festival Centre, in the midst of a 90 million dollar redevelopmen…
In a world where we are constantly absorbing avalanches of information from all sides, Deluge seeks to pummel us with even more. From its innovative use of an under-utilised space to its fiv…
It's a big ask to see three plays " eleven hours of theatre " in one day. If the shows you were seeing weren't completely top-notch, highly entertaining or easy to consume (even when the mes…
It's hard to be young, white and beautiful " or at least that's what April Fools says. In Mediawhore, the audience is taken through the rabbit (or Playboy Bunny) hole into a world of surgery…
The Story of My Life is a glowing example of what Adelaide's Feast Festival has to offer; while it's not the kind of mainstream musical that could book out the Festival Theatre like Ghost or…
The State Theatre Company finish their 2015 season by letting their rubber chickens out with The Popular Mechanicals. The mix of tricky wordplay and bawdy slapstick in the show reminds us th…
In a festival full of big ideas and abstract concepts, Dear John is deceptively simple. At first, the audience struggles to find a pattern, a narrative or even a theme. However, once they gi…
If there are things that Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life is lacking, truth isn't one of them " not if the hoots and hollers coming from mothers in the audience are anything to go by, a…
For anyone who has seen and loved the movie (which in a show like this is about ninety percent of the audience), Dirty Dancing will deliver exactly what you expect; hot summer nights, hot da…
From the press, the poignant promotional images and the description of Amber as "an emotionally charged love story", it's easy to form expectations " to come in expecting serious dialogue an…
Before you even get to the doors of the Space Theatre, the apparently sleeping man, wrapped in a quilt on the floor like a dropped burrito, tells you you're not in Kansas anymore. You're def…
Although Indonesia is one of Australia's closest neighbours, many Australians have never walked the busy streets of Jakarta, or any of Indonesia's large, bustling cities. The vast majority o…
After many years on foreign shores, local-boy-turned-West-End-star Daniel Koek returns to home soil with his long-awaited cabaret show, Bringing Him Home with his West End Story. If the two …
The decreasing number of tap shows and tap classes available in Australia would have you believe that people no longer care about tap dancing " that it's a dying trend. However the sold-out …
The Australia of Ray Lawler's iconic drama, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is, on the surface, very different to the Australia of today. In the spring of 1955 when the play was first perform…
In 2005, a young Daniel Koek moved from South Australia to London to build an international career in theatre. Ten years later, with a successful run as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables on the…
Names like Danny Elfman and Tim Burton are gold for the Adelaide Festival; they draw in mainstream audiences who normally wouldn't touch the festival with a ten-foot barge pole, while the pr…
Adapted from the full-scale stage production, Fela! The Concert is a high-energy, constantly moving concert documenting the life and music of Nigerian musician and activist, Fela Kuti, and h…
In a sea of serious, artistic dance acts this fringe, Virada offers something different " it's fun, artistic dance, and is proof that dance can be creative and world-class while still being …
Em Rusciano returns to the Adelaide Fringe this year with The Motherload, in which she discusses being a child, being a mother, being a bad mother, and John Farnham. As always, Rusciano has …
You might think that a show about writing a show about writing a show would be confusing. You'd be right. However, if you're willing to enter the rabbit hole, it's certainly worth it. [title…
Gravity and Other Myths perform A Simple Space with such informality and good humour, even in the face of huge risks, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd just walked in on a group of re…
Othello is a risky production, entwining classic Shakespearean themes with modern ideas, taking beloved characters in new directions and manoeuvring large, complex, mobile sets. Lucky for th…