by Adrian Miller | Jun 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Space Theatre, Sun 12 Jun. Barb Jungr has long held a reputation as a fine interpreter of Dylan songs, and she is at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival to present songs from her latest CD Hard Rain – The Songs Of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen. Her first offering is a...
by Adrian Miller | Jun 18, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
Banquet Room, Wed 17 Jun. For his first performance in Australia, Ian Shaw quietly slips in behind the piano while the lights are down and doesn’t leave it for the rest of the show. This is a one-man piano bar show that stands or falls on what he can deliver from the...
by Festivals Contributor | Jun 17, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Star Theatres, Sat 13 Jun From ‘60s girl groups to swing classics, Edith Piaf and ABBA, the ladies of Sass-e brought their three-part harmonies to a delighted audience at the Star Theatres in Hilton. The show is designed to tell the story of this country SA singing...
by Dave Bradley | May 18, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Philip Glass (Faber) 2015, 416pp, RRP $49.99 Legendary musician, composer and innovator Glass’ slightly long-winded (well, he is 78) account of his life and times has a straightforward tone which sometimes takes the fun and potential fascination out of his...
by Adrian Miller | Feb 28, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
La Bohème, Fri Feb 27 The show commences with some guitar strums from Jean-Marc Girard, followed by a mysterious figure entering in darkness to perform a version of I Put A Spell On You that teeters somewhere between dramatic and silly. Josipa Draisma is an intense...