Cabaret Festival
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.
InReview
SA arts & culture news in brief: Cab Fringe seeks to showcase the diversity of cabaret, arts identities pop up on stobie poles across Adelaide, The Mill presents work-in-progress showings of My Hair is Thinning, Flickerfest returns to the Mercury, get your SALA registrations in, and OzAsia earns national recognition.
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.
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.
New York-based powerhouse provocateur Rizo enchants with a show pulsing with soul, sass and sensuality.
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.
As this weekend’s opening of the Cabaret Festival heralds 12 days and nights of fun and frivolity, InReview recommends seven highlights with something for everyone.
