by Adrian Miller | Feb 19, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[CABARET ~ Music ~ SA] Mezzanine at Mezzanine at Plant 4 Bowden, Sun 18 Feb, 2024. I would have happily gone to see a concert of Alexandra Frost singing jazz or blues songs, but this show offers a lot more. Through story and song, it tells her own story, not of...
by Michael Coghlan | Jan 15, 2018 | Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 14 Jan. Songs And Stories Of The Paris Lido arrived with high expectations. It was an acknowledged success at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe and has toured widely in the meantime. The show is presented through the eyes of...
by Michael Coghlan | Jan 14, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 13 Jan. Exposing Edith begins in 1935 with Edith and her half-sister busking on the streets of Paris. There she is discovered by Louis Leplée and invited to sing in his nightclub. Thus began her journey to being...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 10, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Lounge at The GC at The German Club, Thu 9 Mar. This is Cologne cabaret star, Sylvia Brecko’s third visit to the Adelaide Fringe, and this time round she chose to put the focus on the lives and music of Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe. Given her German...
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...
