Music
‘It all comes from love’: Young star finds the joy in Oscar Wilde’s ‘epically progressive’ classic

With a role in the new Wolf Creek already in the bag alongside a deeply personal film project, Connor Pullinger makes his mainstage debut this month in State Theatre Company South Australia’s gender-flipping take on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

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Visual Art

Bridget Currie ‘collaborates’ with snails, finds wonder in the archive

From protest-inspired budgerigar costumes to paper-eating snails, Bridget Currie’s latest exhibition responds to Flinders University’s rich and occasionally absurd archive of 1960s and 70s conceptual art.

JLBYJane Llewellyn
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Art Gallery lands ‘modernist masterpiece’ after $675,000 bidding war

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Archibald Prize spotlights ‘unhinged and unapologetic’ Adelaide filmmakers

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Yield Strength is a risk-taking Adelaide Biennial with its share of weak points

News
Adelaide Fringe top job filled with global recruit

Adelaide Fringe has a new leader for the state’s record-breaking arts festival after long-serving chief Heather Croall resigned from the top job last year.

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Theatre

Theatre review: The Importance of Being Earnest

Cucumber sandwiches fly in State Theatre Company South Australia’s gloriously brash production that restores Wilde’s queerness to the centre of The Importance of Being Earnest.

RMBYRachael Mead
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Retro 1970s hairdos and disco moves as the Cinderella story catches fire

Thumbnail for Green Room: Beetlejuice Adelaide-bound | Flickerfest’s local showcase | Sidney Nolan’s ‘Adelaide Ladies’

Green Room: Beetlejuice Adelaide-bound | Flickerfest’s local showcase | Sidney Nolan’s ‘Adelaide Ladies’

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‘Sad experiment’: West Australian Ballet’s larger-than-life Dracula with an empty pit

Film & TV

Huppert in focus: From the gilded cage of scandals and family greed to nosey neighbour

It’s official. French film icon Isabelle Huppert is the toast of Cannes with two lauded films, The Richest Woman in the World and new premiere Parallel Tales.

HBBYHelen Barlow
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‘Sometimes candid, sometimes tragic’: Adelaide Film Festival hits Cannes

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Revisiting Parklands: a 30-year-old slice of bittersweet Adelaide noir

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All things bright and beautiful

Books & Poetry

Book review: The Enigmatic Echidna

South Australian zoologist Danielle Clode tackles her prickliest subject yet: getting up close to the quilled monotreme with backwards feet, a tendency to hibernate when things get tough, and a leathery snout for snorting ants.

PDBYPenelope Debelle
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Poem: Hildegard of Bingen

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Book review: Nostalgic Adelaide

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Lattouf on suing the ABC and the Adelaide woman who took on Google

Music

Music review: An Afternoon of Jazz

Celebrated New York-based saxophonist Troy Roberts joined the latest generation of Elder Conservatorium graduates for The Helpmann Academy’s annual jazz showcase.

EBBYEdmund Black
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What’s My Scene: Tom West wouldn’t trade away his young, cringe and clueless era

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‘Serenading future vintages’: Chamber music returns to Coriole winery

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Music review: Leonkoro Quartet

Must Read

‘Sad experiment’: West Australian Ballet’s larger-than-life Dracula with an empty pit

West Australian Ballet’s interpretation of the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula is gripping and masterfully original. The only thing missing was a live orchestra.

GSBYGraham Strahle
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New Adelaide Writers’ Week director named after 2026 implosion

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‘I can hear people weeping’: Heather Mitchell rises to the role of Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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Slava Grigoryan strikes new chord after ‘gut-wrenching’ Guitar Festival axing

Commentary
Good vibrations for Brian Wilson are heading Down Under

On the eve of Al Jardine touring The Beach Boys songbook, the architect behind the band’s modern legacy, Darian Sahanaja, salutes Brian Wilson.

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