Queenie van de Zandt – Blue: The Songs Of Joni Mitchell Beautifully Told ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review

by Adrian Miller | Jun 16, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews, Theatre

[AUSTRALIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 15 Jun. Joni Mitchell’s Blue album would rate very highly on many people’s list of all time favourite albums, so there was some trepidation as to how these sensitive introspective folk songs would translate to the cabaret stage. What...

Carla Lippis – Cast A Dark Shadow: Dark, Unorthodox And Evocative ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review            

by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 16, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews

[UNITED KINGDOM/AUSTRALIA ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] Festival Theatre Stage, Fri 15 Jun. Carla Lippis is happy to be back in Adelaide casting a deliciously dark shadow over this year’s Cabaret Festival. Arriving onstage in super slinky black with a slash of nuclear red...

John Cameron Mitchell – The Origin Of Love: Up Close And Personal Songs And Stories From The Original Hedwig ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Interview

by Bobby Goudie | Jun 16, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Interviews

John Cameron Mitchell – The Origin of Love [UNITED STATES ~ WORLD PREMIERE] By Bobby Goudie. Tony award winner John Cameron Mitchell heads to Adelaide for the first time to give Cabaret Festival audiences an opportunity to get up close and personal with the ‘original’...

Yma Sumac – The Peruvian Songbird: Ali McGregor Brings To Life The Story Of This Exotic And Mysterious Soprano ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review

by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 15, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews, Theatre

[AUSTRALIA ~ WORLD PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Thu 14 Jun. The lounge music revival of the 1990s led Australian cabaret doyen Ali McGregor to discover the music and story of Yma Sumac – a mega-famous soprano in her homeland of Peru during the 1950s, whose voice and...

Mark Holden’s Greatest Show On Earth: Songs And Stories From The Circus Family Tree ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review

by Janine Spearpoint | Jun 15, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Circus & Physical Theatre, Live Music, Reviews, Spoken Word

[AUSTRALIA ~ WORLD PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Thu 14 Jun. Mark Holden brings together history, his family tree and a timeline of his life and career in a magical web of wonder and delight, with a splash of delightful humour. With a...

Rock Venus – The Songs of Linda Ronstadt: Jane Clifton Pays Tribute To The Legendary Voice Of Linda Ronstadt ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review    

by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 15, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Music, Reviews

[AUSTRALIA ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE] Banquet Room, Thu 14 Jun. Clare Moore and Rosie Westbrook (Southern Belles) have once again brought together a show that spotlights the musical icon that is Linda Ronstadt. Fans around the world were devastated when the news of...