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Adelaide Festival Centre theatres to temporarily close in 2025

Upgrades to the Space Theatre, Dunstan Playhouse and Festival Theatre from July 2025 onwards mean the theatres will be dark until early 2026.
17 Jul 2024 9:01
Richard Watts
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Adelaide Festival Centre’s core theatres will close in the second half of 2025 to allow upgrades to all three venues.

Both the Dunstan Playhouse (which seats 590 people) and the flexible Space Theatre (which can seat up to 350 people) will be closed from July 2025. The Festival Theatre (which has a capacity of almost 2000) closes from August 2025.

New seating will be installed in all three theatres, and stage flooring in the Dunstan Playhouse and Space Theatre will be refurbished while the venues are closed. Lighting upgrades to the Adelaide Festival Centre’s foyers and auditoriums will also be undertaken at this time.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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