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Curtains Up On Adelaide Festival Centre’s Biggest Season Yet

Whether it’s side-splitting laughter at comedian Carl Barron, or singing along to Mamma Mia!, we’ll bet the Festival Centre has something for you this season.

Adelaide Festival Centre is raising the curtain on its 2018 season, including six major musicals, 17 world premieres and 26 Adelaide premieres and exclusives. We couldn’t be more excited!

Guests will be treated to a new entrance, redeveloped foyers and northern promenade, a star-studded Walk of Fame, and new dining and drinking venues. The Festival Centre opens for Richard O’Brien’s electrifying Rocky Horror Show, and there’s plenty more sass when Club Swizzle hits town from 12 December. 

The major musical offerings of 2018 include Green Day’s American Idiot, The Wizard of OzPriscilla Queen of the DesertMamma Mia! and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

Adelaide Festival Centre also presents four of its own world class festivals in 2018, beginning in January with the Adelaide French Festival, a parfait weekend of music, fashion, food and wine. Winter will be brightened by June’s award-winning Adelaide Cabaret FestivalAdelaide Guitar Festival in August will be headlined by affable legend Tommy Emmanuel, while OzAsia Festival will be back with enticing contemporary culture later in the year.

Roof tiler turned comedy favourite Carl Barron will bring the Festival Theatre house down with Drinking with a Fork, while maestro Ben Folds invites aerial song requests in his Paper Aeroplane Request Tour in February. 

Adelaide Festival Centre CEO and Artistic Director Douglas Gautier says: “2018 is our biggest season yet – we are so delighted to work with so many talented South Australian and national performing arts companies as we reopen the Festival Theatre with a packed program.

“2017 has been an important and challenging year for Adelaide Festival Centre and we appreciate the patience and support of our patrons and community throughout the redevelopment. All around us, Adelaide Riverbank is in the midst of transformation and the precinct is really coming alive. We are grateful to the Government of South Australia for their immense and ongoing support, and our loyal audiences, partners, sponsors, and home companies who are so important to our success.”

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