Songs For Those Who’ve Come Across The Seas: A Prog-Rock Concert Seed To Give Our Planet A Fighting Chance ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review

by Michael Coghlan | Jun 21, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews

[AUSTRALIA ~ WORLD PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Wed 20 Jun. The Slingsby Theatre Company have bitten off a great deal here. Set to the original music of Cameron Goodall and Quincy Grant this is nothing less than a history of the natural universe in a mere one hour. A...

Tom Waits For No Man: A Beautiful Reinventing Of Waits’ Songs By Some Of The Most Unique Artist From This Year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival – Review

by Nikki Fort | Jun 18, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews

[AUSTRALIA ~ WORLD PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 17 Jun. The beautiful set design, with its collage of instruments behind the grand piano, elevated centre stage and luscious drapes promised a rich and classy, eclectic mix of top class...

Libby O’Donovan ~ Kate Leigh – The Worst Woman in Sydney: People’s Hero or Underworld Queen? – Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review

by Bobby Goudie | Jun 16, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews, Theatre

[AUSTRALIA ~ WORLD PREMIERE] Space Theatre, Fri 15 Jun. Sydney’s Queen of the underworld in the first half of the 20th Century, Kate Leigh, is a fascinating character for Libby O’Donovan to present for the 2018 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. With all original music and...

Queenie van de Zandt – Blue: The Songs Of Joni Mitchell Beautifully Told ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review

by Adrian Miller | Jun 16, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews, Theatre

[AUSTRALIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 15 Jun. Joni Mitchell’s Blue album would rate very highly on many people’s list of all time favourite albums, so there was some trepidation as to how these sensitive introspective folk songs would translate to the cabaret stage. What...

Carla Lippis – Cast A Dark Shadow: Dark, Unorthodox And Evocative ~ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review            

by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 16, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews

[UNITED KINGDOM/AUSTRALIA ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] Festival Theatre Stage, Fri 15 Jun. Carla Lippis is happy to be back in Adelaide casting a deliciously dark shadow over this year’s Cabaret Festival. Arriving onstage in super slinky black with a slash of nuclear red...