Cabaret Festival
Patti LuPone comes back to Adelaide to perform a program of memorable songs and show us what timeless cabaret looks and sounds like.
Cabaret Festival
This hit musical whodunnit is a frenetic and hilarious two-handed winner.
Cabaret Festival
Cassie Hamilton’s ingenious new musical confronts complex sociopolitical issues without failing to be highly entertaining and heartfelt.
Cabaret Festival
This homage by queer musicians to the queer songs that shaped them had all the feels – plus a sweet sapphic surprise.
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.
With four outstanding singers and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at its expansive best, this celebration of Australian music legend Olivia Newton-John is a Cabaret Festival highlight.
Jess Hitchcock steps out from behind the shadows of Australia’s greatest musicians to present her own voice and the music that shaped her life.
British musical comedy duo Flo & Joan weave their spell with keyboards, drums, a sparkly shaker and truth bombs in this hilariously clever cabaret show.
A collection of life experiences encapsulated in her most memorable songs, Catching Diamonds finds Kate Miller-Heidke at her mesmerising best.
Presided over by exuberant artistic director Virginia Gay, this year’s Variety Gala was one of the briskest and best we have seen for a while.
Get set for unscripted hilarity at this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival as performer Michelle Brasier and her co-star Ben Russell pull famous comedians on stage and put them through their paces in “auditions” for a country musical.
Celebrated stage and television actress Christie Whelan Browne talks to InReview about her upcoming show Life in Plastic at Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and her connection with the late, great Olivia Newton-John.
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.
Cabaret Festival
In an ode to bold, brassy broads, renowned musical comedian Geraldine Quinn makes a joyful return to the Adelaide cabaret circuit after a four-year absence.
Cabaret Festival
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.
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.
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.
We’re still in the thick of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival, but look ahead to next year when Virginia Gay will be 2024’s artistic director.
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.
Cabaret Festival
Adelaide Tonight returns with an hour of old-fashioned fun.
Cabaret Festival
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.
