Just the ticket: Festival overcomes Covid to soar at box office
This year’s Adelaide Festival has lived up to all expectations at the box office, surpassing its ticket sales target with two days to spare.
This year’s Adelaide Festival has lived up to all expectations at the box office, surpassing its ticket sales target with two days to spare.
Who better to close a WOMAD packed with Australian artists than Paul Kelly, backed by the mercurial voices of Vika and Linda Bull, armed with two hours of bona-fide classics?
As the Adelaide Festival draws to a close, read all our reviews in one spot here.
Some tightening up would go a long way to making the Spiderbait frontman’s Alone With You the show it has the potential to be.
It was great to hear Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ Concerto Romantico paired with Margaret Sutherland’s Concerto for Strings.
Levit is a screen natural and has regularly streamed his house concerts worldwide during the pandemic.
The closing chapter of a triple bill featuring Miiesha and Kaiit, Tash Sultana’s set felt like a jam session rather than a gig.
Sisters Vika & Linda Bull warmed up the crowd with a gospel set before Midnight Oil ignited the stage with its greatest hits.
Works by choreographers Botis Seva and Roy Assaf formed this Sadler’s Well Double Bill live streamed from the UK.
Stephanie McCallum plumbed the very depths of the venue’s piano in visceral performances of Sculthorpe and Satie.
Actor John Gaden recited Michael Dransfield’s short and curious poem to a setting by Australian composer Ross Edwards.
The lion’s share of a program of Australian rarities went to performances of works by composer Gordon Kerry.
Two giants of Australian jazz joined forces for a brief but diverse set at the Adelaide Festival’s new open-air Summerhouse venue.
Lithuanian director Rimas Tuminas calls on the remarkable and versatile skills of his big ensemble in homage to Pushkin’s poetry.
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