by Clayton Werner | Mar 4, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2023, Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews
[Kids & Family/Musical Theatre ~ SA] Norwood Concert Hall, Sat 4 Mar, 2023. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a mammoth undertaking by Theatre Bugs and Adelaide Theatre Academy; it’s clear that there has been an enormous amount of work gone into props and costumes for...
by Clayton Werner | Feb 26, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2023, Children's Entertainment, Comedy, Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews
[Kids & Family/Comedy ~ AUS] The Virago at Gluttony – Rymill Park, Sat 25 Feb, 2023. You Are a Doughnut is what happens when you mix musical theatre, comedy, physical comedy, our body’s organs and excretions together! It’s a riot of fun from ingestion right...
by Clayton Werner | Feb 19, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2023, Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Magic/Illusion, Reviews
[Kids and Family/Science ~ IRE] The Lark at Gluttony – Rymill Park, Sat 18 Feb, 2023. Part Science/part comedy, with fleeting references towards magic (that are all explained as science). Despite admonitions at the start of the show about bad language, that we the...
by Ian Bell | Jun 5, 2022 | Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews
[MUSICAL THEATRE/Family/Disney ~ AUS] Adelaide Festival Theatre, Sat 28 May, 2022. If this was going to be a very short review (not my forté) it would read like this. At the breathtaking and magical conclusion to the first act of Frozen The Musical, my nine-year-old...
by Clayton Werner | Oct 9, 2021 | Children's Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews
[THEATRE/Children’s ~ SA] Goodwood Theatre, Fri 8 Oct, 2021. Doctor Dolittle Jr is based on the popular musical, scaled back a little to be suitable for the younger cast of Theatre Bugs and Adelaide Theatre Academy who continue their great service to drama in SA with...
by Ian Bell | Mar 15, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2021, Children's Entertainment, Music, Reviews
[CHILDREN’S EVENTS/Music ~ SA PREMIERE ~ VIC] The Spiegeltent at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Sun 14 Mar. Melbourne’s Teeny Tiny Stevies do a great line in songs for kids – some of whom are pretty teeny themselves. Having first heard them a few years ago when I...