Cabaret Festival
Adelaide jazz musicians share the stage with internationally renowned musician Dame Lisa Simone in a night that offers swelteringly hot music in devotion of Dr. Nina Simone.
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.
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.
Cassie Hamilton’s ingenious new musical confronts complex sociopolitical issues without failing to be highly entertaining and heartfelt.
This homage by queer musicians to the queer songs that shaped them had all the feels – plus a sweet sapphic surprise.
ABC’s The Book Club leapt back to life in glittering style as a cabaret show, bringing the jazz age to the stage in a musically-bedazzled discussion of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby.
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.
Cabaret Festival
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.
Cabaret Festival
British musical comedy duo Flo & Joan weave their spell with keyboards, drums, a sparkly shaker and truth bombs in this hilariously clever cabaret show.
In this charming, sentimental and utterly hilarious show, Christie Whelan Browne takes us from girlhood, to womanhood, to motherhood through pop songs, anecdotes and even a dinosaur costume.
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.
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.
Singer Michelle Pearson will explore her personal battles with body image – as well as society’s obsession with “skinny” – in an empowering new cabaret show featuring pop, power ballads and comedy.
Cabaret Festival
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.
InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Artist submissions open for 2024 Cabaret Festival; star-studded line-ups revealed for two upcoming Adelaide festivals for writers and readers; meet ActNow’s new MakeSpace residents; Porter Street Commission recipient announced, and the 2023 Our Mob winners.
