Must-see entertainment in Adelaide

Ground zero for live music in Adelaide, 'The Gov' hosts some legendary local and international acts. The odd Irish band fiddles around in the bar, while…

Adelaide's riverside stadium (capacity 53,000) hosts major sporting events through the year, including national AFL (www.afl.com.au) and state-based SANFL…

In semi-industrial Thebarton 3km west of the city centre, the everlovin’ Wheatsheaf Hotel draws an offbeat, arty crowd of students, lesbians, gays, punks…

In summer pack a picnic and mosquito repellent, and sprawl out on the lawn to watch old and new classics under the stars. 'Gold Grass' tickets, which cost…

In Adelaide’s inner-southwestern suburbs, the art-deco Capri hosts everyone from local jazz big-bands to touring Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute acts…

This enduring, good-time late-nighter operates under a broad live-music remit of Friday and Saturday nights, swinging from swing, funk and jazz to salsa,…

Now this old stager has got soul! Vaguely art deco, the 1928 'Thebby' is an iconic Adelaide live-music venue with great acoustics and buckets of charm…

Just off Rundle St, handily poised down the alley next to the Exeter Hotel, this plush city complex screens new-release art-house, foreign-language and…

We were deeply unimpressed when the charming old Glenelg movie house on Jetty Rd was bulldozed a few years ago. But now there's the shiny new six-screen…

A beaut old art-deco cinema on the main North Adelaide strip, with a sexily curved street frontage and chevron-shaped windows spangled across the facade…

Around 12,000 indoor bums on seats for everyone from the Wiggles to Keith Urban to Stevie Wonder.

The hub of performing arts in SA, this crystalline white Festival Centre opened in June 1973, four proud months before the Sydney Opera House! The State…

Adelaide’s funny bone took a hit when the old Rhino Room on Frome St was forced to close in 2016. But it has now re-opened on Pirie St, so we can all…

The good ol' Cranker just keeps cranking out the cold beer and loud rock, despite the equally loud protestations of East End residents (many of whom who…

Big on musicals and comedy, this grand old city theatre was built in 1913 and originally had seating for around 1000 people. A major renovation project,…

In a converted theatre spangled with a brilliant mural, Jive caters to an off-beat crowd of student types who like their tunes funky, left-field and…

The best place in Adelaide to catch some live jazz (on Tuesday nights, at any rate) the Gilbert is a renovated old pub but continues to ooze soul. Order a…

The not-for-profit Mercury screens art-house and international releases, and is home to the Adelaide Cinémathèque film appreciation club (classic, cult…

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