Candlelight Concerts in Adelaide
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Adelaide.
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Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Adelaide.
You've been called for jury duty. Step into a thrilling courtroom drama where the audience is the jury. Listen to testimonies, analyze evidence, and ultimately decide… guilty or not guilty?
South Australian artists Arlon Hall and Billie Justice Thomson invite you to slow down and lose yourself inside a painting. Inspired by Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition this iteration of the Studio will explore light, colour, line and shape through hands-on experimentation.
Exclusive to Australia, Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition traces a ground-breaking era in art history through iconic works by the most influential European and American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Turrangka…in the shadows surveys over a decade of James Tylor’s practice and brings together the most comprehensive selection of his unique daguerreotypes, expansive digital photographic series, hand-made Kaurna cultural objects and furniture.
Smuggler. Seductress. Rebel. Risk-taker.
She’s the woman who turns every head — and breaks every rule.
Step inside the Hippodrome and into the world of The Greatest Showman as COME ALIVE! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular arrives in Australia from May 2026.
Step into a musical journey from Sinatra's effortless swing style to Armstrong's unforgettable voice and trumpet. Their music comes alive once again in a heartfelt live tribute performance.
After a record-breaking sell-out 2025 season, BIG Live's The Nutcracker arrives in Adelaide for an extended season!
Dirty Dancing in Concert is a cinematic live-to-film concert event that brings the iconic love story back to the big screen, with a twist.
Julia, Brian, Dugald, The RocKwiz OrKestra and some extra special guests will deliver the best Christmas present you could hope for in 2026!
Michelle Nikou is a South Australian-based sculptor who experiments with a diverse range of materials and draws on surrealist techniques to transform everyday domestic objects into sculptures of humour, poignancy and marvel.
This exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view works from AGSA’s rich collections of historical South Australian dress and photography.
The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." It's THE BOOK OF MORMON, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning Best Musical.
Opening in January 2027, Floating Worlds: Prints from Osaka & Kyoto explores the pleasure, fashion and cultural life that flourished in Japan's Kamigata region during the Edo period (1603–1868).
Interstellar is landing at the Sydney Opera House! After sold-out shows across Europe, Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning epic comes to the big screen, with Hans Zimmer's monumental score performed live by 65 musicians.
The celebrated stage adaptation of one of the most popular and enduring films of all time, The Shawshank Redemption, is coming to Australia. Direct from its acclaimed UK tour, The Shawshank Redemption will play in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide from January next year, with other cities to be revealed.
Following triumphant seasons, five-star reviews and widespread acclaim, Arthur Miller’s timeless play Death of a Salesman arrives in Adelaide for a strictly limited, 11-performance season at the Festival Theatre.
Following consecutive sold-out national tours and landmark performances at the Sydney Opera House and New Zealand, ECLIPSE Pink Floyd Orchestrated returns to Melbourne and Brisbane in September
Ladies! It’s time to embrace “The Change” with a night out, full of uncontrollable laughter, uplifting celebration and shared sisterhood!
This dazzling world premiere reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic with full theatrical spectacle. Directed and choreographed by Joel Burke, with narration arranged by James Millar, Gatsby’s story is brought to life like never before.
This witty, whimsical, and deeply moving show intertwines beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales — including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel — with an original story of a baker and his wife on a quest to break a witch’s curse and start a family.
Step into the dark, enchanted forest where danger lurks behind every tree and sweetness hides sinister secrets. Constantine Costi’s visionary, genre-bending production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, has lead design by Jonathan Oxlade. Based on the haunting original by the Brothers Grimm, bringing to life a timeless story of courage, cunning, and the triumph of self-reliance.
The ever-reigning Queen of Burlesque, Dita Von Teese, returns to Australia and New Zealand with her most opulent show yet: Nocturnelle.
John Frost for Crossroads Live and Opera Australia today announced that the Broadway hit musical ANASTASIA, will have its Australian premiere at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne in December 2025 before touring to Perth, Sydney and Adelaide in 2026.
Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day.
Whether you’re chasing heart, brains, courage – or just a damn good time – Oz is calling. From award winning Australian producers, comes a new theatrical experience that will take you beyond the rainbow into a reimagined land of Oz.
As winter’s chill settles in, City Lights returns bigger than ever to transform Adelaide’s city streets and parklands into a radiant wonderland, rekindling the city’s spirit with an all-new series of FREE installations. Now a beloved annual tradition, this vibrant event invites everyone to wander, wonder, and rediscover Adelaide’s secrets in a mesmerising glow.
Inspired by the story of creation, this breathtaking immersive light show invites you on an extraordinary journey through the birth of our universe, brought to life with dazzling visuals and a powerful soundtrack.
Head to Hollywood with the dazzling stage adaptation of one of the most beloved romantic comedies of all time – Pretty Woman: The Musical!
Two Islands, One Thread: Textiles of Lombok & Bali explores the remarkable and unique story of the artistic exchanges that occurred between two very different Indonesian societies—Hindu Bali and Muslim Lombok—over the past millennium.
The Importance of Being Earnest is beloved for its wit, satire, and gleeful skewering of Victorian respectability. But beneath the dazzling dialogue lies something more radical: a world built on performance — of identity, class, and desire.
Rossini’s La Cenerentola offers an exhilarating retelling of the timeless Cinderella story, replacing fairy-tale magic with dazzling vocal performances, spirited comedy and musical brilliance through his exquisite score.
Windmill’s award-winning work returns to Adelaide. Moss Piglet takes audiences on a microscopic journey of epic proportions, unveiling the mysteries of the world’s most resilient and curious critters.
West Australian Ballet tours to Adelaide for the first time in more than a decade, with Krzysztof Pastor’s multi award-winning Dracula.
The Jungle Picnic tour brings Emma Memma’s much-anticipated new album to life on stage, transforming its playful songs into a joyful, movement-filled live experience for children and their families.
Following Sold Out performances in Melbourne, the '80s phenomenon FOOTLOOSE: THE MUSICAL is cutting loose in Adelaide — bigger, bolder, and more explosive than ever!
This latest tour is a must-see event for fans of the series, with fan-favourite cast members uniting on one stage to perform showstopping choreography, tell new stories, and revisit the iconic moments that made the series a global hit.
After a triumphant and sold-out Australian national tour, the smash hit RBG: Of Many, One finally arrives in Adelaide.
Experience the best of the Oscar-nominated music from the Harry Potter films in a unique evening of concert, with a star guest, the Magic Film Orchestra & Choir, and magical illusions!
The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit - In Concert is coming to Adelaide!
Experience “The Music of Hans Zimmer & Others”!
The Best Experience of the Year: The Lion King – Live in Concert
Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget!
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art remains the pre-eminent and longest-standing survey of contemporary Australian art. As a vital component of the Adelaide Festival since 1990, the 19th Adelaide Biennial builds on its reputation and commitment to supporting and celebrating innovative and ambitious practices.
Join us in The Studio to create a time capsule inspired by artist Charlie Sofo featured in the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength.
Multi award winning Wright&Grainger return to Adelaide with their internationally acclaimed wild retelling of the ORPHEUS myth, like you've never seen it before.