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Derek Smalls – ‘iconic bassist’ for fictional heavy metal group Spinal Tap – will take to the stage with You Am I when they perform their tribute show Majesty of Tap in one of the highlights of the 2022 Adelaide Guitar Festival line-up.
Adelaide Festival
British arts leader Ruth Mackenzie has been appointed the next artistic director of the Adelaide Festival and will take up her new role in mid-2022 as current ADs Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield prepare to step back earlier than planned.
Cabaret Festival
It’s time to break out the sparkles and sequins and start planning for this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival as artistic director Tina Arena unveils her program.
This UK-based ensemble – a selection of players from the full Chineke! orchestra – has debuted at the Adelaide Festival with an exuberant and delightful program, the centrepiece of which was a specially-commissioned work from one of Australia’s most important musicians and composers.
PHOTO GALLERY: Music lovers were out in force – and dancing with zeal – as WOMADelaide celebrated its 30th anniversary across the long weekend with a stellar line-up of artists that showcased the depth and breadth of Australia’s music talent.
Amazon’s role in exacerbating America’s social divisions was highlighted in a real-life dystopia described by US author Alec MacGillis at Adelaide Writers’ Week, while Irish writer Colm Tóibín gave an insight into the story behind his epic novel The Magician.
A large crowd gathered at Adelaide Writers’ Week to hear fearless campaigner Grace Tame speak about her personal experience and Australia’s time of reckoning. In another popular session, Trent Dalton took to the stage to talk about love.
Two press conferences held within hours of each other on the first day of the Adelaide Fringe have been widely commented on in the local media. However, beneath the sensationalist headlines lie two issues: how do we value arts and culture, and how do we make arts and cultural policy?
Festivals
Ahead of WOMADelaide’s return to Botanic Park, associate director Annette Tripodi shares with us eight must-see acts – from a big brass band with attitude, to a Yolŋu surf rock group and a project tapping into the golden era of French pop culture.
Festivals
An architecturally designed ‘sensory playground’ debuting at WOMADelaide invites both children and adults to take seat and spin a soundtrack.
Billowing brightly-coloured sails suspended from the façade of the Art Gallery of SA herald the opening today of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State – a showcase of work by 25 leading contemporary artists from across the country.
The 2022 Adelaide Festival is close to hitting its box office target of $4.3 million as it officially opens today, with the artistic directors promising a stimulating line-up of shows despite the ‘Herculean’ challenges posed by the pandemic.
Local circus company Gravity & Other Myths will reach new heights with an Adelaide Festival opening night show that blends Indigenous Australian and Scottish culture in a gravity-defying celebration of the spirit of place.
The world has changed a lot since Courtney Barnett’s last Australian tour, but after two years the singer-songwriter is returning to the stage with new music and a newfound gratitude for live performance.
Adelaide Festival
Immersed in near-darkness and wearing headphones with 3D sound, the audience at Blindness is plunged into a plague like we’ve never known.
Festivals
From politics to literature, there’s plenty to look forward to – and choose between – at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, writes our regular Diary of a Bookseller columnist. She shares her five must-see sessions.
Last Fringe, an arts reviewer referred to Pasifika performer Thomas Fonua as ‘black pudding’, sparking debate about racism in arts media. After a year-long silence, the artist’s drag diva alter-ego, Kween Kong, offers a take on the saga in an Adelaide Fringe show.
The 2022 Adelaide Fringe kicks off tonight, marking the start of one of the hallmarks of Adelaide’s festival season.
The South Australian Labor Party has pledged to invest $2 million in the Adelaide Film Festival to make it an annual event if it wins next month’s state election.
With the Adelaide summer festival season kicking off this week, we asked some of InReview’s writers and critics to share their must-see Festival and Fringe shows and events – from theatre, comedy, music and dance to visual art and literature.
Adelaide Festival
Leading British actor Juliet Stevenson returns to the Adelaide Festival – in voice only – in a unique thriller about a pandemic of blindness told entirely through immersive sound in a darkened theatre. It is a bleak story, the director tells InReview, but also one of bravery and hope.
Adelaide Fringe
South Australia has been fertile ground for new independent theatre companies in recent times and the 2022 Fringe will see several showcase their production style and talent with original works ranging from dystopian drama to charismatic comedy.
Led by a ‘gargantuan’ solo performance by Eryn Jean Norvill, director Kip Williams turns Oscar Wilde’s 130-year-old novel into a portrait of 21st-century vanity.
First Nations artists and drone art specialists unite at the intersection of tradition and technology for Sky Song – an Adelaide Fringe centrepiece that promises to captivate audiences with both its visual spectacle and its important cultural stories.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | As he was standing in a field in Afghanistan, watching men with machine guns joyride on military tanks, former comedian Henry Naylor turned into a playwright. Now he is telling the story of the trip that changed his life in a world premiere season at Adelaide Fringe.
High-profile advocate for survivors of sexual assault Grace Tame is among more than 90 new guests added to the line-up for this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week in its full six-day program.
