A string of female vocal powerhouses including Lisa Simone, Patti LuPone, Kate Miller-Heidke and Mahalia Barnes lead the 2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival program, but there’s also an eclectic – and electric – line-up of other artists to discover.
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In Haitian Creole, M’ap Boulé means “I am on fire”. This is true for both Nancy Denis and anyone in the room with her: she sets the entire theatre alight.
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New York-based powerhouse provocateur Rizo enchants with a show pulsing with soul, sass and sensuality.
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As iconic to Australian TV as the pigs in the rubbish bins are to Rundle Mall, RocKwiz presented a night of excellent live entertainment with this grand salute to Adelaide.
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Assembling an intriguing selection of Australian songs and sources, including some doozies of her own, Robyn Archer and her versatile trio return to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in fine form.
As the Adelaide Cabaret Festival opens this weekend, InReview recommends eight shows that highlight the diversity of the 2023 line-up – from an unexpected ‘Australian Songbook’ with Robyn Archer to An Evening Without Kate Bush.
The answer, Reuben Kaye, is yes: We will still love you tomorrow. In fact, after enGORGEd, some of us are a little bit in love with you.
Adelaide Tonight returns with an hour of old-fashioned fun.
Cutting to the chase here is simple. If you are a Kate Bush fan, see this show. No ifs or buts. Sarah-Louise Young offers magical, in-and-out-of-character songs and banter that make for compelling entertainment.
In Edge of Reality, band leader Paul Grabowsky and Oz music luminaries Joe Camilleri and Deborah Conway brilliantly rescue Elvis from impersonators and cartoon legend to celebrate his considerable musical legacy.
Kate Ceberano was in stunning form in her one-night-only performance with the ASO at this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival. In orchestral versions, her songs have never felt so bewitchingly powerful.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s history was front and centre in a Variety Gala full of razzle dazzle, energy, emotion and powerhouse performances from some of the spectacular talent in this year’s line-up.
Fancy yourself an expert on AC/DC, Cold Chisel, Sia or the Hilltop Hoods? Then you may want to get along to RocKwiz Salutes Adelaide at the Cabaret Festival.
Australian jazz icon Vince Jones, legendary cabaret performer Paul Capsis, TikTok sensation Broadway Barbara and Adelaide’s own Anne Wills are part of the dynamic line-up for this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
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SA arts and culture news in brief: WOMADelaide announces final 35 artists for next year, award-winning play Euphoria among highlights of Country Arts SA’s 2023 program unveiled this week, and Cabaret Festival’s Variety Gala proves a hot ticket.
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The 2023 Adelaide Cabaret Festival will be presented with a “Cabaret Collective” rather than a single artistic director, with Kate Ceberano, David Campbell, Eddie Perfect, Julia Zemiro and Ali McGregor all appearing at the red-carpet Variety Gala.
Two singer-songwriters recreate their EP and a lot more in an intimate and uncluttered cabaret performance.
This splendid tribute to Stephen Sondheim not only exuberantly showcases the best of his songs, but affectionately recalls his close links with Australian music theatre.
Dynamic performer Meow Meow combines humour and terrific singing in a much-fêted show that is, not surprisingly, a highlight of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Treasured musical veteran Marcia Hines offers her own version of gospel – and it’s a sweet, gentle balm.
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Rai Thistlethwayte pares it back and jazzes it up for the Cabaret Festival in The Quiet Side of Rai Thistlethwayte.
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Home-grown talent Paul McDermott returns to Adelaide as ringmaster to a crew of “minstrels and misfits” in this melange of comedy and music in The Famous Spiegeltent.
