Cabaret Festival reviews: Die Roten Punkte, Bernie Dieter’s Weimar Punk
Read the latest Adelaide Cabaret Festival reviews by our critics, including two punk-rock theatre shows and Tina Arena’s Songs My Mother Taught Me.
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Labor coughs up double for big Fringe benefits
This year’s Fringe rebounded from the pandemic to generate a major windfall for the state. And it is set to be paid back big time in 2023.
The $3m Mall mammoth big enough to send little piggies home
Rundle Mall’s famous pigs have a new rival. A seven-metre $3m bronze sculpture by surrealist artist Salvador Dali is taking up temporary residence in the shopping strip.
Australian String Quartet and Sydney Dance Company win award
Adelaide-based Australian String Quartet and Sydney Dance Company have won a major international award for a score composed by The National’s Bryce Dessner.
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Lost opera explorer returns from Outback
An opera first performed at the 1986 Adelaide Festival and rarely staged since will be revived by State Opera of SA and Victorian Opera for a concert production next year.
Musical hit tunes back to the 80s
The classic Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore romantic comedy film set in the 1980s has been adapted into a stage musical which will start a national tour in Adelaide next year.
Art Gallery’s favourite lady back where she belongs
One of the Art Gallery of SA’s most popular paintings has returned from a two-year absence, just in time for the venue to reopen after the state’s latest lockdown.
Hot show shuffle
New dates have been announced for the remainder of State Theatre Company’s play Ripcord and three other shows which were postponed at Adelaide Festival Centre venues this week.
Wearing is caring for Ausmusic
Keith Urban, Jaguar Jonze and Adelaide soprano Greta Bradman are among the stars wearing other artists’ shirts to promote Ausmusic T-shirt Day and Support Act on Friday, November 20.
Fringe’s light bulb moment
Lumo Energy SA will match the first $10,000 of donations to the Adelaide Fringe’s Invest in the Arts crowd-funding appeal on Thursday – and you can pick which artists the money goes to.
Elder Park NYE party, Feast picnic among events cancelled
NYE fireworks at Elder Park, Feast’s Picnic in the Park, arts performances, SkyCity’s launch events, and convention centre functions are on the list of cancelled events.
Dance with an intelligent design
Connections between people and surroundings are explored in a new dance collaboration between a KI choreographer and an interior design team.
Review: Bent
Bent is presented as part of the Feast Festival, and rightly so, for part of the play’s legacy is to affirm the pink triangle as a symbol not of weakness, but of power.
Review: The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Mates fighting and reconciling, sopranos in love, and a motherly fortune teller – it’s Verdi in the suburbs, but told in an Australian vernacular for the opera adaptation of Ray Lawler’s iconic play.
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