Festival Friends
Get priority access to the best AF tickets at the best price!
Sign up for a Friends membership and be first in line for the world’s most exciting theatre, opera, dance, music and visual arts.
Festival Friends enjoy these exclusive benefits:
- 15% discount on adult ticket prices to select Adelaide Festival shows (limit of two discounted tickets per event)
- Access to the best seats in the house on shows presented by the Adelaide Festival (applicable shows only, excludes opening nights and exclusive donor and sponsor performances) for a two week priority seating period from our full program launch.
- Option to exchange tickets to another performance of the same event, subject to terms and conditions
- Special offers and discounts from our partners
- Receive the Festival Guide in your letterbox ahead of the general public
- Receive an invite to our program launch
Adelaide Festival 2026 Friends Memberships cost $195 (with no transaction fee) and will be valid until 30 June 2026.
Terms and Conditions are listed below. Information about how to access your Friends discounts will be shared with you once you join!
Each Festival Friends membership is valid until the end of the financial year.
The cost of a Friends membership is $195. Transaction fees apply when purchasing tickets.
Friends are entitled to 15% discount on adult ticket prices to select Adelaide Festival presented events, limited to two (2) tickets per event.
Friends can access the best seats in the house for a two (2) week priority seating period, on events presented by the Adelaide Festival (applicable shows only, excludes opening nights and exclusive donor and sponsor performances).
Friends are entitled to exchange tickets to events presented by the Adelaide Festival. Exchanges will attract an $8.95 transaction fee per booking. Exchanges can be made by contacting Adelaide Festival (boxoffice@adelaidefestival.com.au) and are subject to the following conditions:
- The performance that tickets are being exchanged from is not sold out
- The performance that tickets are being exchanged into must have available capacity
- Tickets can only be exchanged into a different performance of the same event (i.e. exchange from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to another performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- If the new performance selected has a higher ticket price or seating in a higher price category is chosen, the difference in cost between the original tickets and the new tickets, is payable by the Friend
- There are no refunds given if cheaper tickets are selected or for failure to attend the performance
- Ticket exchanges must happen in advance of the performance, and cannot be made once the performance has taken place
- Festival Friend benefits vary annually at the discretion of the Adelaide Festival Corporation and are subject to change depending on the Adelaide Festival program each year.
To access Festival Friend prices and priority seating online, please log into your account via the Adelaide Festival website before selecting a performance. Applicable discounted prices and seating will then become available for purchase. Discounted tickets for Festival Friends are only available through Adelaide Festival, not Ticketek or other ticketing agents.
To book tickets or discuss seating and accessibility, please call Adelaide Festival on 1300 393 404. For email enquiries, please contact boxoffice@adelaidefestival.com.au.
Festival Friends are issued a digital membership card (or sent a letter in the absence of email). Please note it is not a requirement to carry proof of membership to Adelaide Festival venues when you are attending performances (unless stated otherwise on the event page).
Standard terms and conditions of sale apply to all Adelaide Festival tickets and Friends of the Festival tickets which are sold in accordance with Live Performance Australia guidelines.
