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"The only person who can get you from off stage to on stage and to open your mouth is you" There are still tickets to see Elf Lyons' show SWAN at the #Adelaide Fringe – read our interview with the UK clown-comic now festmag.com/2026/02/20/i... #AdlFringe
Interview: Elf Lyons
UK clown-comic Elf Lyons on finding new meaning in her Swan Lake adaptation after almost a decade
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It's the last week of the Adelaide Fringe, and if you're looking for family-friendly fun, plenty of our recs for Kids shows are running through the weekend 🤩 festmag.com/2026/02/17/a...
Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Kids
Our pick of the best and most anticipated Fringe shows for the whole family
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If you're looking for some spectacular shows for the last weekend of the #Adelaide Fringe, there's plenty to see in our circus highlights ✨ festmag.com/2026/02/11/a... #AdlFringe
Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Circus
Comedy, music, storytelling… There’s more to these circus shows than gravity-defying stunts
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There's still a chance to see some of our top music picks this #AdlFringe – read our round-up for details on Gigi McFarlane and Bag Raiders!
Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Music
From home-grown dance royalty to stars from overseas, a handful of music picks from across the Fringe
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"The erotic, the playful, that’s at the root of human connection" Read our interview with legendary cabaret performer Bernie Dieter, and catch Club Kabarett this #AdlFringe
Interview: Bernie Dieter
After 7 years away, cabaret firebrand Bernie Dieter talks to Xuanlin Tham about why her Weimar-era inspired Club Kabarett is needed now more than ever
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"Nuns have done incredible things throughout history that are quite exciting and shocking" Mixing religion, sexuality and pop culture, three shows at this year’s Adelaide Fringe take on the big question: can we mix church and pleasure?
Interview: Bad Habits
Mixing religion, sexuality and pop culture, three shows at this year’s Adelaide Fringe take on the big question: can we mix church and pleasure? Their respective performers, Lauren Hance, Libby O’…
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We interview Daniel Muggleton about #Adelaide, dodgy audiences and life as a cult comic festmag.com/2026/02/22/i... #AdlFringe
Interview: Daniel Muggleton
We catch up with the man in red about Adelaide, dodgy audiences and life as a cult comic
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"Australian music didn’t happen overnight, it was built, show by show, in rooms like this" Dave Gleeson of The Screaming Jets honors Adelaide's music venues in his #AdlFringe show – read our interview festmag.com/2026/02/27/d... #Adelaide
Dave Gleeson: The Adelaide Music Venues that Made Me
Ahead of his Adelaide Fringe show Long Way to the Top, The Screaming Jets singer highlights some legacy venues that have shaped the city’s music scene
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"The CBD: Cyclists, Bankers, Dickheads – I proudly identify as all of the above" Kathy Maniura brings The Cycling Man to #AdlFringe festmag.com/2026/02/27/t... #Adelaide
The Cycling Man’s Guide to Cycling in Adelaide
Kathy Maniura’s deeply flawed, lycra-clad Cycling Man takes us around Adelaide on a bike
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"I think live performance should always have a bit of that old-fashioned glamour" Clown-comedian Ozzy Algar brings SPEED QUEEN to the Adelaide Fringe – read our interview festmag.com/2026/02/25/i... #Adelaide #AdelaideFringe
Interview: Ozzy Algar
We chat to clown-comedian Ozzy Algar about their gossiping alter ego Pet, owner of the Isle of Wight’s last surviving laundromat
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Exceptional dance shows in Adelaide run the gamut from home-grown to international talent festmag.com/2026/02/19/a... #AdlFringe
Adelaide 2026 Top Picks: Dance
Exceptional dance shows in Adelaide run the gamut from home-grown to international talent
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Madam Martha, Bernie Dieter and Trash York are just some of the stars bringing cabaret to this year's #AdlFringe
Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Cabaret
Cabaret highlights, from unchained hedonism to Moulin Rouge glamour and circus flair…
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Don't miss these thrilling theatre performances coming to this year's Adelaide Fringe – read our top picks now festmag.com/2026/02/12/a... #AdlFringe
Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Theatre & Physical Theatre
From moving real-life stories to chaotic interactive shows, our top picks for theatre & physical theatre at the Fringe
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"Perhaps the difference between humans and animals is not whether we are domesticated, but whether we believe this domestication is voluntary" Taiwanese theatre troupe Peng Nei Ren discuss bringing Animal Farm adaptation RULES to the #AdelaideFringe
Interview: Animal Farm
Taiwanese theatre troupe Peng Nei Ren answer Xuanlin Tham’s questions on reimagining Orwell’s classic anti-authoritarian tale
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"We’re not hiding behind extravagant costumes, makeup, any of that stuff. We’re trying to be raw and honest." Jesse Scott and Lachlan McAulay step onstage as themselves in You & I, Casus Creations’ most intimate performance yet festmag.com/2026/02/15/i... #AdlFringe
Interview: You and I
Jesse Scott and Lachlan McAulay step onstage as themselves in You & I, Casus Creations’ most intimate performance yet
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From home-grown dance royalty to stars from overseas, here's our top picks from music acts across the #AdlFringe
Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Music
From home-grown dance royalty to stars from overseas, a handful of music picks from across the Fringe
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Nine Adelaide College of the Arts alumni explore objects as carriers of memory and meaning RELICS is on display now as part of #AdlFringe – read our interview with curator Shani Engelbrecht festmag.com/2026/02/14/i...
Interview: RELICS
Nine Adelaide College of the Arts alumni explore objects as carriers of memory and meaning in visual exhibition RELICS, curated by Shani Engelbrecht
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“I like the audience to feel like they have an impact on the performance. But they will never win." – @nonstoptom.bsky.social Taskmaster co-hosts Tom Gleeson and Tom Cashman talk to us about bringing their respective stand-up hours to the #AdelaideFringe
Interview: Tom Gleeson & Tom Cashman
Taskmaster co-hosts Tom Gleeson and Tom Cashman talk to us ahead of their respective stand-up hours
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From John-Luke Roberts to Zoë Coombs Marr, we shout out our top comedy acts coming to this year's Adelaide Fringe ✨ festmag.com/2026/02/16/a... #AdelaideFringe
Adelaide Fringe 2026 Top Picks: Comedy
Eight unmissable comedy shows, from charming childhood tales to grasps for meaning…
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"Performers bend into startling shapes, lift themselves precariously high above the stage, and enact breathtaking stunts" Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words) – ★★★★ #EdFringe review by @alekiagill.bsky.social
Review: Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words)
A showcase of true dedication and skill…
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JEEZUS! is a fun and filthy musical theatre show about growing up queer in Latin America – and there's still a chance to catch the ★★★★ #EdFringe show this weekend
Review: JEEZUS!
Fun and filthy musical theatre from Latin America
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"An hour of acerbic, self-deprecating and satirical jokes" ★★★★ #EdFringe comedy review: GIANMARCO SORESI – read @louiscammell.bsky.social's review and catch @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social's last available tickets festmag.com/2025/08/19/r...
Review: Gianmarco Soresi: The Drama King Tour
Joke-a-minute stand-up expertly skirts the line
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Light-hearted, citrus coloured zealotry of the non-sectarian kind ★★★★ #EdFringe comedy review: ORANGE CRUSH by @ivograham.bsky.social – read @jayirichardson.bsky.social's review now
Review: Ivo Graham: Orange Crush
Light-hearted, citrus coloured zealotry of the non-sectarian kind
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"Pussy Riot are an antidote – demonstrating tonight what it means to call out complicity" RIOT DAYS is at Summerhall this #EdFringe – @anita-bh.bsky.social gives ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to the Russian protest art collective's show festmag.com/2025/08/17/r... @pussyriot.bsky.social
Review: Pussy Riot: Riot Days
Raw, unapologetic and defiant show from the Russian protest art collective…
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"Something about grunge [...] always felt queer. It felt like I could access something in it that I couldn’t elsewhere." #EdFringe show NO APOLOGIES by @notyetarobot.bsky.social explores discourse around Kurt Cobain’s gender identity festmag.com/2025/08/17/i... [Interview: @anita-bh.bsky.social]
Interview: Emma Frankland
Cover story: In No Apologies, Emma Frankland delves deep into the long-running internet discourse around Kurt Cobain’s gender identity. The writer-performer speaks to Arusa Qureshi about the…
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"From the moment he stomped onto the world stage, he changed everything" Two #EdFringe shows – Monstering the Rocketman and Your Song – pay homage to the iconic Elton John festmag.com/2025/08/16/i... [Interview: @jayirichardson.bsky.social]
Interview: Jess Robinson and Henry Naylor on Elton John
Jess Robinson and Henry Naylor pay homage to the icon that is Elton John at this year’s Fringe…
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"There are ways in which the culture around you threatens you and denies certain stories that are foundational; threatens your safety if you express them" Actor/activist @khalidabdalla.bsky.social on #EdFringe show NOWHERE, festmag.com/2025/08/16/i... Interview: @anita-bh.bsky.social
Interview: Khalid Abdalla
Actor and activist Khalid Abdalla discusses his intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011…
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"Secrets and denials, which are shared with us as if we were best friends at a sleepover, speak to a self-inflicted damage caused by running away" TELL ME WHERE HOME IS (I'M STARTING TO FORGET): ★★★★ #EdFringe theatre review by @alekiagill.bsky.social
Review: Tell Me Where Home Is (I’m Starting to Forget)
Slick, self exposing one-person show
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"Places everyone in the auditorium at the heart of the show’s narrative" ★★★★ for THANKS FOR BEING HERE, an #EdFringe theatre piece by collective @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social
Review: Thanks for Being Here
Ontroerend Goed’s latest show places emphasis on the camaraderie of collective experience…
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"Under harsh white fluorescent light, and sonically textured by ambient industrial drips, rattles, and mechanical groans, Isaiah Wilson’s Score is an eviscerating depiction of alienated labour" ★★★★ #EdFringe review: SCORE
Review: Score
Rich and deeply intelligent confrontation with technologies of control…
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