Tuesday, December 8, 2015
2015 has been a mixed year in the world of South Australian Arts. Big names in big Festivals have attracted big audiences. The State has seen Federal Arts funding de-funded and syphoned off …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:52PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Next weekend, on Saturday 14th November, the 2-week-long 2015 LGBTIQ Feast Festival officially opens. This year’s headlining act is the internationally renowned, 2014 Eurovision Song Conte…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:50PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
The Adelaide Festival Centre has launched its 2016 programme. The season features a range of international artists from the UK, Spain, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, The Netherlands, USA, China a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:43PMThursday, October 22, 2015
There isn’t any sense in which this play could be called (in Mrs Everage’s words), a “nice night’s entertainment”. It’s very title, Mortido is Freud’s term for the death wish, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:12PMFriday, October 16, 2015
From the first oozings over the audience chatter, of the live music from the very accomplished Zephyr Quartet, to the very first sentence from the actors, it was clear that this was no ordin…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:08AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
The late Pina Bausch played the role of matchmaker to Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa and hence the immaculate conception of Play was borne. Play is the gentle art of love &#…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:13PMSunday, October 11, 2015
David Sefton has revealed the programme for his 4th and final as the Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2016. Sefton stated, “For my last hurrah, I’ve brought together…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00AMThursday, September 10, 2015
The State Theatre Company of South Australia has announced its 2016 Programme. Co-productions represent the defining feature of the season with 6 of the 10 shows made so; including a new par…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:08AMSunday, August 30, 2015
The work of Ben Johnson (1572 – 1637) is nowhere near as well-known as that of Shakespeare, but he is nevertheless a very important English playwright. So the language, even in this fine n…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:52PMMonday, August 10, 2015
This review comes with a caveat. The 20-something yuppie woman in front of me thought it was a brilliant idea to see a show with two columns of hair, each six inches high, packed neatly side…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:48AMMonday, August 3, 2015
There is nothing new about infidelity, but there is always something fresh about Pinter. No wonder he got a Nobel Prize. His writing is incisive, perceptive and accessible, and Betrayal is o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:29PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
When the house lights finally went down in The Dunstan Playhouse to begin the Programme launch of the 2015 OzAsia Festival, a small child called out “Yay” and the entire audience broke o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:30PMMonday, June 22, 2015
In Love Songs For Sir Les, Barry Humphries bids farewell to his one and only stint as the Artistic Director to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival with an ode to the outrageously disgusting Sir Le…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:14AMSunday, June 14, 2015
When you add self centred-ness, concrete thinking, closed-mindedness and power struggles to a serious dose of intellectual and emotional immaturity and superficiality, the results in terms o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:44PMTuesday, May 26, 2015
Much loved and respected Australian actor Bob Hornery has passed away yesterday with his daughter Jane Goodman and friend Richard Piper at his side. Working in both the UK and Australia, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMThursday, May 21, 2015
The ‘Come Out’ Children’s Festival opens today with 1600 school children performing as the ‘Mighty Choir of Small Voices’ on the Adelaide Oval footbridge. The children will sing Da…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:27PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
This morning it was announced Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy have been appointed Co-Artistic Directors for the Adelaide Festival of Arts for 2017, 2018 and 2019. Both are Australian born …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:35PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Just about every Australian knows about “The Doll”, but not everyone has had the opportunity to see it. It is a play that has become part of Australia’s history and psyche and one that…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:36PMSunday, April 26, 2015
My hand is getting better now and I have picked up my jaw from the floor of the Festival Theatre. The strength of my wife’s tense grip on my hand through this jaw dropping spectacle surpri…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
With much celebration Australia’s favourite octogenarian Barry Humphries has launched his programme for the 2015 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. With the moniker “putting the “F” back int…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:41AMMonday, March 16, 2015
Prominent Australian theatre producer John Frost has announced that his new production of the iconic musical Dirty Dancing will be heading to his own hometown of Adelaide in September for a …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:05PMSunday, March 15, 2015
Adelaide Town Hall’s elegant Auditorium hosted Terry Edwards’ Blow the Bloody Doors Off!! – A symposium of the music from four of Michael Caine’s best-known films from the period 196…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:19PMFriday, March 13, 2015
Sure, there is some humour in the Bible, but this extraordinary piece of theatre turns it into a very funny, whilst irreverent but respectful romp! Who, other than the creative genius of the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:34PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Company comes to the 2015 Adelaide Festival of Arts with a big reputation. It needs to be said that reputation is thoroughly deserved. The company presents two…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:21PMArvo Pärt is one of the most enduring revolutionary composers of choral and instrumental music of the 20th century. Carl Crossin has been a major influence in the presentation and acceptanc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:25AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
An extremely influential towering figure of 20th century literature, Samuel Beckett has challenged recent generations of students, actors and theatre directors, but nobody would ever say tha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:32PMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Delicate, rich, genteel, were all words which immediately came to mind the moment this extremely talented and accomplished band started playing on their period instruments, with the majority…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Is it physical theatre? Is it Dance? Is it circus? Whatever it is, it is extraordinary, weird, wonderful and mesmerising, and quite beautiful. And it’s perfect as an opening gambit for a F…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:30PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
Tommy was first conceived and recorded by the 23 year old Pete Townshend in 1968. It has now been re-conceived as a gender-bending Jazz explosion by Eric Mingus in a world premiere productio…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:53PMThursday, January 22, 2015
Adelaide’s Brink Productions, in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre, will bring Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s short story Down at the Dump, from his 1964 collection The Burnt…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:25PMSunday, October 19, 2014
My Fair Lady is not only the best Musical that came out of the fifties, but is justifiably promoted as “The Musical of Musicals”. Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, it has b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:26AM 
