Review: Windmill Theatre Trilogy: Girl Asleep

The premiere work for the Adelaide Festival from Windmill Theatre, as part of a coming-of-age trilogy of plays targeted for teenagers, is just about the most enjoyable time in the theatre anyone of any age could have. Ellen Steele plays…

Socials at Lola’s Pergola

Review: Roman Tragedies

Truly staggering in its invention and execution, director Ivo Van Hove and the Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s six-hour, modern-dress, mightily epic treatment of Shakespeare’s ‘Roman Tragedies’ Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony And Cleopatra is a truly visionary work, and the kind of…

Review: BigMouth

Valentijn Dhaenens stands behind a dimly lit row of microphones, with an illuminated chalkboard floating above his head. A list of names and dates is spread across the board: Socrates 399 BC, Malcolm X 1964, Nicola…

Review: The Seagull

Chekhov’s plays are notoriously difficult to perform. Rich in subtext, emotion and symbolism, if not handled delicately it can delve into soap opera territory. At points, this curse plagues the State Theatre Company’s ambitious adaptation of The Seagull, with some…

Charles Bradley: Soul Town

American soul singer Charles Bradley will be performing alongside flamboyant New York ensemble Kid Creole & The Coconuts at a free concert in Elder Pk on Fri Feb 28 to officially open Adelaide Festival for 2014.

It follows the success…

Slow Magic set for Lola’s Pergola

Slow Magic is the music journalist’s biggest challenge. He won’t divulge his real name or provide any biographical details, preferring to be a cipher. We just have his music to go on. So what to ask?

Fortunately, the post-chillwaver gives us some clues when he…

Xavier Samuel: Interview With The Vampire

While on a break from rehearsal for The Seagull, Xavier Samuel sits down with Rip It Up to talk about returning to Adelaide theatre.

You could be forgiven for thinking that you’re just talking with any other talented young Adelaide actor who…

Windmill Theatre Trilogy: Rosemary Myers

At this year’s Adelaide Festival, Artistic Director David Sefton didn’t need to search far to find the perfect candidate to fulfil his mission of offering more events for children and teenagers. The Windmill Theatre is a local production company…

Adelaide’s Ultimate Backyard Party

Barrio is dead. Long live Lola’s Pergola – Adelaide Festival’s 2014 party destination where chefs and winemakers will be the stars.

Australia’s gastronomic scene is the most exciting it’s been for years with quality new eateries such as Peel…

Adelaide Festival Program Launch

Unsound Adelaide 2014

In 2013, experimental sonic art found a hugely dedicated audience; 2014’s edition of Unsound Adelaide will bring fans from around Australia and our region.

Of all the surprises and treasures that emerged from David Sefton’s revitalisation of the Adelaide Festival…

Adelaide Festival 2014 Program Announced

The program for the 2014 Adelaide Festival has been announced, with next year’s event set to include a new riverside dining precinct called Lola’s Pergola as a replacement for the popular Barrio.

With a theme focused on South Australian history, the…

Denis O’Hare: The King’s Speech

Before Denis O’Hare was ripping the spines out of newsreaders as the King Of Mississippi, Russell Edgington, on HBO’s True Blood, or as Jessica Lange’s henchmen on FX’s American Horror Story, he and director Lisa Peterson worked on adapting Homer’s The Iliad.

O’Hare…

Adelaide Cracks Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Cities To Visit List

Having been declared Australia’s most livable city earlier this year, Adelaide has been ranked as one of Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Cities To Visit In 2014 for its bustling food culture, Adelaide Oval redevelopment and “effortless chic”.

Placing ninth,…

Spin Off Festival Reveal Set Times

With only a week to go until Adelaide’s own bite-sized version of Splendour In The Grass kicks off, Spin Off Festival, it’s time to get acquainted with the set times and pencil in when you’ll be positioned front centre for…

Oi You! Street Art Festival 20 April – 2 June

Barrio Opening Night 2013

Adelaide Festival: Bryce Dessner Interview

Building a community does not simply involve learning Spanish at a local civic centre. For Bryce and Aaron Dessner, their Brassland project has taken years to develop into something that can only…

Hauntology House Game Goes Live

If you front a band called Severed Heads, it’s no wonder that a game you create would be called Hauntology House. Although the word is a term coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and refers to obsession with…

Slumber Party At Barrio

Pitch a tent for the kids! WHAT? No, like, an actual tent, you weirdos. Everyone’s favourite temporary nightspot, Barrio, is hosting a charity sleepover on the final night of the Adelaide Festival.

On Sat Mar 16, some lucky…

New Artists For Unsound Adelaide

Three new artists have been added to the Adelaide Festival Unsound line-up to replace Emeralds, The Caretaker and V/VM.

Following Emeralds’ unexpected split (announced via Twitter earlier this month) and scheduling issues with James Leyland…

Julia Stone And Sally Seltmann Join Adelaide Festival’s ‘Brassland’

Julia Stone, Sally Seltmann, Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens and Vermont folk artist Sam Amidon are the latest artists to join Adelaide Festival 2013 as part of Brassland, a concert series inspired by the New York indie…

Barrio Reveals Full 2013 Program

Adelaide Festival late-night club Barrio will make its long-awaited return this March with an exciting new program of aromatic street vendors, themed bars, nightly activities, DJs and live performers for 2013.

Kicking off on Friday March 1, over…

Listen: New Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Song ‘Jubilee Street’

Ahead of the release of their new album Push The Sky Away in February, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have treated fans by putting forward a new single, Jubilee Street.

The bittersweet track picks up where the album’s first…

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We No Who U R

Adelaide Festival: Kimbra Interview

A decade ago, a 12-year-old Kimbra Johnson would stare up at the poster of Silverchair on her bedroom wall and daydream about frontman Daniel Johns while listening to their orchestral opus, Diorama. A decade later, she’s set to share a…

Kimbra Joins Daniel Johns and Van Dyke Parks in Adelaide Festival 2013

If you are devastated you didn’t catch pop princess Kimbra at Summadayze, we have good news for you. The pint sized award-winning singer and one half of the hit Somebody That I Used To Know will make a guest appearance alongside Silverchair’s Daniel…

Rip It Up’s Ultimate Summer Festival Guide

If there’s one thing we’re good at in Australia it’s throwing together one hell of a festival season when the weather warms up. The time for sneakers, sunscreen, tinned drinks and outdoor music is upon us once again, so it’s…

Neon Lobster At Alpha Box & Dice Winery

Last Christmas season we spent a good number of days stuffing our face holes with delicious tacos thanks to those floral-touting chaps The Happy Motel and their Mexican flagship venture Neon Lobster. This month you too can experience their unique…

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Confirmed For Adelaide Festival 2013

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are back. The announcement of their 15th studio album, Push The Sky Away, came with a nude lady on the album cover and a description of the record as “the ghost-baby in the…

WOMADelaide Announces Full 2013 Line-Up

WOMADelaide will return to Adelaide’s Botanic Park from Friday 8 – Monday 11 March in 2013 with an extraordinary line-up of over 50 international and Australian bands.

Next year’s weekender festival will see a combination of new and returning headliners…

Adelaide Festival 2013 Program Is Here

Under the wing of its new Artistic Director David Sefton, the program for the 2013 Adelaide Festival has been revealed boasting an incredible list of theatre, dance, music and visual art events from March 1 -17.

Featuring 54 events, 314…