by Michael Coghlan | Jun 23, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Musical Theatre, Opera, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Thu 22 Jun. Nigerian-born Le Gateau Chocolat has been a favourite at the Adelaide Fringe for some years. For this year’s Cabaret Festival he presents Black – a depiction of a life punctuated with the struggles associated with being black,...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 22, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Wed 21 Jun. All a review of The Sound Of Falling Stars really needs to do is tell you that if you like popular music from the last 40 years then you must go and see it. Shows this good don’t come around very often – it simply excels in every...
by Clayton Werner | Jun 19, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Family Entertainment, Music, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sun 18 Jun. Music is an important part of rehabilitation and therapy in hospitals especially when done in harmony with the science. The Hush Foundation began in the Melbourne Children’s Hospital to make the most of this. Interestingly, it’s not...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 19, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 18 Jun. Brel: “The supreme madness is to see life as it is and not as it should be.” Ali McGregor’s introduction told that the English speaking world didn’t really discover the music of Jacques Brel until he was...
by Bobby Goudie | Jun 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sun 18 Jun. Meow Meow continues to be one of the most intriguing as well as terrifying cabaret performers with her haunting and powerful vocals and erratic comedy. Her 2017 Adelaide Cabaret Festival show, Souvenir, is written as a celebration of...
by Matt Saunders | Jun 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 16 Jun. Live music is unique in that it can be experienced in many contexts, often governed by genre and intended audience, and those contexts dictate the experience of seeing a singer-songwriter: there’s the...