by Michael Coghlan | Jan 1, 2017 | Live Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Sat 31 Dec. Dusty Springfield was born into a strict Catholic family as Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien. She was considered a plump and plain redhead with enough musical talent to accompany her older brother at family show and tells. Mary,...
by Catherine Blanch | Dec 17, 2016 | Entertainment, Interviews, Musical Theatre, Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. Born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien, Dusty Springfield was not only a musician, arranger, record producer and television presenter, but the blue-eyed sensual mezzo-soprano was one of the most successful British female performers of her...
by Bobby Goudie | Dec 11, 2016 | Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Sat 10 Dec. Adelaide’s own Michael Griffiths and Michaela Burger were both nominated this year for a Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer, with Griffiths winning the category for his show Cole, written by Anna Goldsworthy, celebrating the life...
by Bobby Goudie | Dec 4, 2016 | Dance, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Sat 3 Dec. The 1952 MGM film Singin’ In The Rain is considered one of Hollywood’s greatest screen musicals, featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen. More than 30 years later it was adapted for the stage and opened on...
by Michael Coghlan | Nov 24, 2016 | Reviews, Theatre
Space Theatre, Wed 24 Nov. The opening scene of Extremities is really disturbing. It has to be for the rest of the play to work. We have the dubious pleasure of being witness to a home invasion where a man terrorises the lone female occupant with intent to rape her....