Fabula reviews some of the best of Adelaide’s professional and community theatre for June, July and August 2026. And our Fab Future section gives you tips on upcoming plays, musicals and opera.
We were promised, “coarse language, adult themes and partial nudity” but we also got a funny, clever poignant play with two delightful young actors who I will follow with interest. Charismatic duo Danielle Lim and…
Michelle Nightingale and Benji Riggs deft handing of Holden Theatre Theatre’s compelling psychological drama The Sound Inside also confirms director Nick Fagan’s talent for recognising and bringing the world’s most culturally relevant dramas and dark…
Brant Eustice brilliantly captures the warmth and complexity of Alan Turing, the gay pioneer of AI (artificial intelligence), in St Jude’s Players Breaking The Code. Eustice’s performance solidifies his place among Adelaide’s elite actors and…
‘You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown’. Gilbert & Sullivan’s joyful heartwarming recreation of Charles Schulz’s classic comic strip, ‘Peanuts’Six adorable figures from the original Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz come to life exactly as…
From the moment Peter appears on stage and is greeted with spontaneous applause from an adoring audience the energy never drops in this energetic, witty comedy. Peter pitches his character perfectly. Whiteside is a curmudgeon…
Blue Sky Theatre. Director Dave Simms’ thoughtful and intimate version of this Australian classic by Andrew Bovell has not been done in Adelaide for 10 years. Some plays you need to experience at different stages…
This Uncle Vanya is where fans of Anton Chekhov and the brilliant adult animated series Family Guy intersect. That’s hard to imagine; sounds ridiculous but it works fabulously. Mary Angley has done some audacious tweaking…
The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning medical procedural drama set in the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Centre USA stars Adelaide actor Shabana Azeez as Dr Victoria Javadi. Azeez attended St. Aloysius College from 2002 to 2014 and attained a…
Dead parrots now ‘passing away’ dilute our urgency and energy for fulfilling life.Suddenly, no one was dying any more. They were passing away. Even some journalists were, shockhorrifyingly, partial to “passed away”. The recent overnight…
