Music
For Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, there are ‘no wrong answers’ in music

Returning to Australia for the first time in eight years, Iron & Wine singer songwriter Sam Beam reflects on the ‘endless joy’ and ‘human experience’ of making music – even when it means learning to let go.

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Visual Art

Green Room: Central Market mural callout | Stigwood Fellows revealed | Guildhouse’s $50,000 opportunity

South Australian arts and culture news in brief.

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What’s My Scene: Christian Best finds Adelaide’s hidden depths

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MAKE or break: national craft and design prize explores artists’ evolution versus ‘innovation’

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Good praxis: How a former brothel became one of Adelaide’s leading arts spaces

Theatre
‘Electric and theatrical’: Roller derby and family life collide onstage in Mama Does Derby

Windmill Production Company artistic director Clare Watson brings the rough and tumble world of roller derby into Adelaide Festival – along with a mother-daughter story that’s both deeply personal, and proudly complicated.

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Theatre

‘A magical thing’: Fringe faithful Britt Plummer is leading a clown revolution

Theatre-maker, trained clown, and producer Britt Plummer explains how The Courtyard of Curiosities has snowballed from a yurt in a museum courtyard to an international artists’ hub.

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Thumbnail for ‘A magical thing’: Fringe faithful Britt Plummer is leading a clown revolution

‘A magical thing’: Fringe faithful Britt Plummer is leading a clown revolution

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Theatre review: Rotpunkt – No Exit

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Wackadoo! There’s no place like home for Bluey’s stage show

Film & TV

Reaching another pinnacle in the love stakes on Bridgerton

Bridgerton has turned period drama upside down and is doing so again in its raunchy fourth outing.

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Legendary lyricist is all Hart in Blue Moon

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Obituary: Remembering the highly talented Gerard Lee

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Band of brothers is a real blast!

Books & Poetry

From stage to page: Tracy Crisp launches memoir and new cosy-crime Fringe show

With her new book Pearls and Fringe production Who Killed Gough Whitlam? set to land within days of each other, Tracy Crisp talks about adapting her acclaimed stage shows for readers, and launching new work in a disrupted festival season.

RMBYRachael Mead
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Poem: Sheepshead Walk

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Up in the air: The Smithy legend lives on in historical fiction

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Book Review: The Mother Is Restless & She Doesn’t Know Why

Music

A gutsy addition to Adelaide’s classical music landscape

Adelaide Baroque’s historically-informed string quartet offers a new slant on the form, inspired by the past.

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What’s My Scene: Charles Jenkins is still writing songs

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Peter Sellars makes Adelaide Festival return: ‘I hope I am coming back as an old friend’

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For whom the Tubular Bells toll

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‘There’s more life in a fallen tree than a standing one’: Slingsby plots a long farewell after 21 years

As Slingsby Theatre readies its three-part curtain-call A Concise Compendium of Wonder, artistic director Andy Packer reflects on the company’s history, and their ecological ambitions for sustainable touring theatre.

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‘The only ecstasy in my life’: Reopening Barbara Hanrahan’s diaries

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Artist-run label captures the ‘in-between moments’ of Adelaide’s music scene

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‘Sometimes I get sick of music’: For Paul Kelly, storytelling is a way of being in the world

Festivals
‘Small positive nudges’: New Fringe initiative aims to get kids off screens one day at a time

A new Adelaide Fringe initiative aims to help kids kick the algorithm and experience the world of culture taking place outside their feeds.

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