Season Preview 2026: Festivals
What do our festivals have on offer in the year ahead?
What do our festivals have on offer in the year ahead?
Mama Does Derby, set at a roller derby and performed on skates, is preparing to premiere at the Sydney and Adelaide Festivals.
Peter Sellars and Julia Bullock talk collaboration ahead of the Adelaide Festival run of Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine.
“Lower your guard,” says incoming Artistic Director Matthew Lutton, heralding the return of Peter Sellars and contemporary music.
Next year, Pygmalion will make its Australian debut at the Adelaide Festival with a series of concerts surveying the European Baroque.
The unpredictability of POV is its undoing on this occasion, but it's also the show's superpower.
The brilliance of Dylan Van Den Berg’s writing lies in its ability to humanise the impact of colonisation in a way that resonates with a broad audience.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
A three-course feast of early music and a star-powered production by the late Robert Wilson are among the banner events for Adelaide Festival 2026.
We're celebrating our 250th issue this month. Rather than look back, we've asked leaders in the field to imagine what Australian theatremakers might be presenting when we publish Limelight #500.
Julian Hobba joins Adelaide Festival after stints as Executive Director of State Theatre Company South Australia and The Blue Room Theatre, Perth.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
Pina Bausch's works are still remarkable, but the distance between the late choreographer and the company bearing her name is palpable.