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Tuesday, July 16

Festival review: Bernstein on Stage!

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra is joining orchestras all over the world to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of great American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein – and its first concert on that theme this year demonstrated the capacity for “Lenny” to both confound and delight audiences.

Festival review: Compassion – Lior

A string quartet was the beating heart of this Adelaide Festival chamber music highlight, which took the audience through a gamut of responses to global conflict.

Anne Sofie von Otter. Photo: Mats Backer

Festival review: Anne Sofie von Otter

While a flame-haired Englishman with a guitar had much of Adelaide entranced at Adelaide Oval last night, a snow-haired Swede without a microphone offered something very precious to a different crowd just a short stroll up King William Street.

Review: The Young King

Slingsby Theatre Company has made extraordinary use of the Myer Centre’s gutted Dazzeland space for its beautiful and interactive production of Oscar Wilde’s The Young King.

Review: The Events

The Events draws inspiration from the effects of unfathomable acts of violence in the form of mass killings, too often perpetrated by marginalised, troubled male youths.