by Michael Coghlan | Feb 26, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Vines Room at National Wine Centre, Sun 26 Feb. [MUSIC/CABARET – SA] It’s not a bad idea to have artists who are established and comfortable in one realm to cross over to another. Kristen Hardy’s home base is opera; Rohan Powell’s is much more broad based –...
by Kate Battersby | Feb 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
La Bohème, Fri 17 Feb. The only certainty in a piano chick’s life is that she will eventually be sacked from every single job. It’s a brutal truth perhaps, but in this show it seems far from tragic as Ms Becky Blake romps us through scenarios routinely encountered by...
by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 11, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
ArtSpace, Fri 10 Jun Cabaret artists Maeve Marsden and Libby Wood are joined onstage by pianist/music director Jeremy Brennan for an hour of gin-soaked hilarity with a double shot of history thrown in for good measure. A genius idea for a start, this show takes an...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 20, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Artspace, Thu Jun 19 For much of his life Rod Davies has been a piano man. Among the stories he tells of his journey through music was a live show called The Piano Men. The classic Billy Joel ballad featured large, and his vocal rendition of this famous tune was in my...