Monday, January 9, 2017
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 an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:12PMMonday, September 5, 2016
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 the musi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:55AMSunday, April 3, 2016
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 re…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:25PMWednesday, March 9, 2016
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:37AMSunday, February 28, 2016
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:15PMSunday, February 14, 2016
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 s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMFriday, November 20, 2015
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 Ghos…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:35AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:52PMMonday, October 12, 2015
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 b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:38AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:15AMFriday, October 2, 2015
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 dia…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:34PMSunday, September 27, 2015
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:38PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
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 majori…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:46PMMonday, June 15, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:13AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
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-…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:15AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
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 perfo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:32PMWednesday, May 13, 2015
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:34PMMonday, March 16, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:09AMSaturday, March 14, 2015
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:24AMSunday, March 1, 2015
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 be…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:54PMSunday, February 22, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:58PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
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. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00AMMonday, February 16, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:58PMThursday, November 20, 2014
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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:18PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
With its powerful, enchanting cast, cohesive design and diverse, contemporary plot, Neighbourhood Watch is one of the State Theatre Company’s best productions in a long time. Neighbourhood…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30PMWednesday, March 19, 2014
Coming from a rich and varied background as a director, creator, producer, programmer, writer, event manager, workshop facilitator and French interpreter, Sally Blackwood recently began her …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00AMMonday, March 3, 2014
Fugitive is truly a piece of theatre for the new generation – with its filmic atmosphere, topical subject matter and ambitious plot, it will have any apathetic teenager dropping their smar…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:01PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Naked Dream by Sydney singer-songwriter Rachel Collis seems to still be finding its place in the cabaret genre. However, for lovers of quirky tunes and barefoot ballads, the show is an apt a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
In amongst rehearsing his lead roles in Windmill Theatre’s upcoming festival trilogy and fulfilling his commitments as writer of all three featured shows, Matthew Whittet took time to spea…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:21PMIn Vogue – Songs by Madonna will make every Material Girl and Preaching Papa feel like they’ve found their home. From the moment audience members walk into la Casadeur, they are greeted …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:23PM 
