Artistic Director Mitchell Butel has curated a phenomenal season of theatre, his final season with State Theatre Company South Australia. The incredible lineup features new South Australian and Australian theatrical works, beloved classics and contemporary international hits.
Tickets are now on sale as part of a 2025 Subscription Package. Join State Theatre Company’s Subscriber family in 2025 by packaging 4-6 plays to receive the best ticket prices. Plus, access unmatched flexibility with a free ticket exchange per show, so you can plan and book with confidence.
Read on to discover the rollercoaster ride of high-wire and high-quality work in store for audiences in 2025. It’s going to be quite the trip.
The Dictionary of Lost Words
After delighting audiences and critics alike in sold out seasons in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, our highest and fastest selling show in the history of the Dunstan Playhouse returns to Adelaide as part of a wider national tour throughout 2025.
Lovingly adapted by South Australian playwright Verity Laughton from Pip Williams’ acclaimed bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words is back.
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. The Dictionary of Lost Words is the story of the girl who found it.
Looking for Alibrandi
Fall in love again with a young Italian-Australian transforming into the hero she’s destined to be in the acclaimed stage adaptation of Melina Marchetta’s beloved book and film Looking for Alibrandi by Vidya Rajan. Three generations of women. The Italian-Australian experience. A trip back into the 1990s.
Fresh from sold out seasons in Sydney and Melbourne and directed by the new Artistic Director of Brink Productions, Stephen Nicolazzo, Looking for Alibrandi will have its Adelaide premiere in 2025.
Great Australian Bites
Across November and December, come and take a bite of some tasty new offerings from the cream of South Australian playwrights. Great Australian Bites is a festival of never-performed-before works from some of our most dynamic, innovative and talented theatre makers, including Piri Eddy, Anthony Nocera, Sarah Peters, Alex Vickery-Howe, Nicola Watson and Alexis West.
The Glass Menagerie
One of Tennessee Williams’ most powerful plays and an American classic, The Glass Menagerie is a compelling journey into the heart of memory, illusion and a family fighting for their lives. In a small apartment in 1930s St Louis, Amanda Wingfield and her two children, Tom and Laura, spin singular and separate dreams. Under the direction of Artistic Associate Shannon Rush this production will feature some of Adelaide’s finest performers including Ksenja Logos as Amanda and Kathryn Adams as Laura.
Housework
From Canberra’s corridors of power comes Emily Steel’s dazzling world premiere black comedy Housework, starring the comic genius mischief makers, Susie Youssef and Emily Taheny. Sex scandals, betrayals, culture wars, the price of power, motherhood and Machiavellian manipulation – it’s all in a day’s work inside the House.
Kimberly Akimbo
The new girl in town is making heads spin. You’ve got to move fast when you’re 16 going on 70. Kimberly Akimbo: A Musical, is a Tony Award-winning smash musical comedy and Australian premiere directed by four-time Helpmann Award-winner and outgoing Artistic Director, Mitchell Butel. Starring stage icons Marina Prior, Casey Donovan, Nathan O’Keefe and Christie Whelan Browne, with music by Jeanine Tesori (Shrek) and book by David Lindsay- Abaire, this new musical transcends generations with laughter, love and a poignant reminder of life’s fleeting moments.
Dear Son
In Dear Son, featuring Trevor Jamieson (Storm Boy, The Secret River) and Jimi Bani (Mabo, Every Brilliant Thing), we hear from First Nation Australian fathers who have nurtured their sons and our country’s culture based on the book by Thomas Mayo and adapted by Isaac Drandic and John Harvey.
Through story, through music, Dear Son will be a groundbreaking theatrical event that will honour the rich traditions and wisdoms of fathers passed down through generations, while also exploring the challenges faced by First Nations men today and the importance of family, the power of culture and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
Subscription packages are now on sale with single tickets launch on December 2:
