by Michael Coghlan | Feb 23, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2023, Cabaret, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Historical ~ CAN] The Jade, Wed 22 Feb, 2023. It really is remarkable just how many songs there are about knitting! And I imagine Canada’s Melanie Gall knows most all of them. Cracking titles like “I’m Knitting a Singlet For Cecil’, and “I Wonder Who’s Knitting...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 20, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2023, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
[CABARET/Comedy ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] The Jade, Sun 19 Feb, 2023. American Tom Lehrer was something of a child prodigy. He studied classical music from the age of seven and was admitted to Harvard at the age of 15. He did eventually become a Maths professor and...
by Ian Bell | Jun 24, 2022 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
[CABARET ~ WORLD PREMIERE & ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE ~ AUS] The Famous Spiegeltent, Festival Plaza, Thu 23 Jun. In the last couple of years, despite the plague, Paul McDermott has engaged in a renewed relationship with Adelaide. His sterling shows during the last two...
by Adrian Miller | Jun 24, 2022 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[CABARET ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ AUS] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Thu 23 Jun. Lior is very personable on stage, and he clearly enjoys playing in Adelaide. By way of introducing the show he explains that he is here to present his ‘lockdown project’, a...
by Ian Bell | Jun 24, 2022 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
[CABARET/Comedy/Rock ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ DEU/AUS] The Famous Spiegeltent, Festival Plaza, Thu 23 Jun. The long-awaited return of punk rock cabaret brother and sister team of Astrid & Otto a.k.a. Die Roten Punkte (translation: The Red Dot) has taken way too long in...
by Cathy Tune | Jun 20, 2022 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
[CABARET ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ Aoteoroa/NZ] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 18 Jun. Hayden Tee can wow an audience with his velvet voice. After years of performing in musicals such as Les Misérables and Matilda he knows how to milk the layers in his...
