What’s on This Month in Adelaide: A Harvest Party, a One-Woman Show, and Heaps of Hot Cross Buns

Mad March is behind us for another year. It’s time to lean into recovery with a slower April. Start the month with daily hot cross buns from local bakeries, or check out local exhibitions and much-loved touring plays.

Winemakers marking the end of harvest are also taken care of with The Scenic’s end-of-season celebration.

It’s a good month. Here are the 11 best things to do this month in Adelaide. 

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• Festivals

• Theatre

• Art

• Food and drink news

Festivals and events in April 2026

• Kingsford Gather & Graze, April 18: Kingsford the Barossa estate is holding its second Gather & Graze event in collaboration with Abelsway Farm. Guests will get a drink and snack on arrival, a main course featuring Abelsway Farm chicken, and a glass of wine. $60 per person. Book online.

• The Scenic’s End-of-Season Harvest Party, April 19: The Scenic Hotel’s Harvest Party is back for a third year. To mark the end of the season, winemakers and wine lovers alike are invited to a party with hours of tastings from 20 local winemakers, DJs throughout the day, and a barbeque from Staguni’s Clare Falzon and The Scenic’s Angus Love. $38 per person. Buy tickets online.

• Ceviche Masterclass at Tunki, April 25 & May 30: Chef Krish Dutt is debuting a ceviche masterclass at his seafood restaurant Tunki. Up to 16 guests per class will learn how to fillet a whole fish, create a tiger’s milk marinade and put together a killer dish of ceviche. Guests also get a glass of saké on arrival and a bag of gifts. $249 per person. Book online.

Theatre in April 2026

There’s a great collection of theatre and musicals coming to Adelaide in 2026. These are the shows you can check out this month.

• Trophy Boys: An all-boys debating team is set to smash its sister school in the grand finale of a debating tournament. They’re locked in a classroom for their prep window, arguing “feminism has failed women”. Sounds simple, right? In Trophy Boys, the scenario is a funny and frightening look at adolescent boys and their place in the world. It’s performed by a female and non-binary cast in drag. Trophy Boys runs from March 17 to April 2 at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. Tickets are on sale now.

• RBG: Of Many, One: Heather Mitchell is a powerhouse in any role, but as Ruth Bader Ginsburg she’s the walking, talking, trailblazing “notorious RBG”. Mitchell embodies the US Supreme Court justice with a grace and quietness that makes you feel like the jurist is right there on stage. Written by Olivier Award-winning playwright Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), the one-woman play is an entertaining and emotional whizz through RBG’s pivotal moments, from her teen years to her death in 2020. RBG: Of Many, One runs from April 10 to May 2 at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre. Buy tickets here. 

Art in April 2026

The Adelaide art scene this year is chock-full of great exhibitions. Here’s what you can see this month.

• Kumarangk: As part of a project looking at the Ngarrindjeri women who resisted the construction of the Hindmarsh Island bridge, Kumarangk brings together work by Ngarrindjeri artists, including Aunty Ellen Trevorrow and Aunty Betty Sumner, to honour their fight and the survival of culture. Kumarangk runs until April 4 at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.

• Golshad Asami: Rhythms of Home: Ceramic artist Golshad Asami has made a series of beautiful plates that explore her connection with her birthplace, Iran. Asami moved to Adelaide in 2019, and her delicate, circular ceramics tell the story of living between two worlds. Golshad Asami: Rhythms of Home runs until April 12 at the Jam Factory.

• Make Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design: Cinnamon Lee won this year’s Make Award for her metal sculpture that she describes as a lamp, a piece of jewellery and a theatrical work of art. It’s currently on display at the Jam Factory, alongside a sofa made of 3744 golf balls, and other quirky design items. Make Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design runs until April 12 at the Jam Factory.

• Touching the Divine: Love and devotion in Asian art: AGSA curators have pulled out paintings and ceramics from the gallery’s collection to explore how artists across Asia have interpreted Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic stories over the centuries. There are Hindu goddesses, Sufi subjects and many depictions of Krishna spread around the Lower Melrose Wing, each one expressing the concept of love and devotion. Touching the Divine runs until April 26 at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

• 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength: We know the idiom “pressure creates diamonds”, but does pressure really transform something for the better? Curator Ellie Buttrose has called this year’s Biennial Yield Strength, which asks 24 artists to explore how materials and people change under pressure. The line-up includes Venice Biennale winner Archie Moore, Melbourne-based painter Prudence Flint, Ngapa Jukurrpa painter Julie Nangala Robertson, and sculptor and video artist Charlie Sofo. Yield Strength runs until June 8 at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Botanic Garden. 

• Beginnings: Imagine if, when you shopped for groceries, you could see the whole cost of buying, say, a punnet of blueberries. Not just the dollar amount, but the labour of growing and picking them, the environmental costs of transporting them, preserving them and keeping them cool until they reach your basket. Adelaide University’s Mod gallery has created a convenience store where you can do just that. Beginnings runs until November 20 at Mod.

Food news and new Openings:

What we’ve covered recently:

• It’s the season! Here are Adelaide’s best hot cross buns and Easter treats.

• Katie Spain’s Welcome to the Club column is back. This time she’s leaning into German sausages, schnitzels, steins and singalongs at the Elizabeth Downs German Club.

You might have missed:

• We’re making our way through the best spots to eat in the city. Here are the best cafes and the best restaurants.

• We asked two top chefs for their local food recommendations this month. We spoke to La Louisiane’s Alexis Besseau and Vasili Petropoulos of Vasili’s Table.

Additional reporting by Emma Joyce.