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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Six diverse and compelling singers, music that goes deep into their identities… this brilliant concept translated into a fun and moving show that should be repeated.
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.
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.
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.
Sequins shine and feathers flutter at Cirque Bon Bon, a sweet Cabaret Festival treat featuring an athletic cast of performers who mystify with their trickery.
In response to Adelaide Cabaret Festival artistic director Tina Arena’s affirmation that ‘cabaret is escapism of the most fabulous kind’, welcome to The Piña Colada Room and the escapism that is disco: glitter, glamour, excess and beat.
A trio of popular Adelaide cabaret artists deliver snappy performances and a slice of music history in this celebration of ‘the women who defined rock ’n’ roll’.
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.
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.