Neil Armfield’s staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will headline.

While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?

It was all go as this year’s 60th anniversary festival got underway with a series of compelling, contentious, provocative and exciting productions.

Jansson J. Antmann talks to Neil Armfield and artist Abdul Abdullah about how religious, sexual and identity politics feature in many of the works in this year's Adelaide Festival.

STC has issued a statement confirming the passing of the acclaimed Wangkatjungka actor in Edinburgh while touring in The Secret River.

Andrew Bovell's wonderful, compassionate play about family is staged with a beautiful simplicity and clarity.

The acclaimed production will be seen in Europe for the first time this August.

The two will produce and co-commission major opera productions to be seen in Adelaide over the next three years.

The line-up includes the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Moscow's Sretensky Monastery Choir, and Meryl Tankard's Two Feet performed by Natalia Osipova.

Highlights include an epic in Sydney Town Hall, a new play about the Packer Dynasty, and Colin Friels in Life of Galileo.

H Lawrence Sumner’s latest play brims with life in this world premiere directed by Neil Armfield.

The musicals Muriel's Wedding and Beautiful, and Bangarra's Bennelong lead the charge at the Act I presentation.