Search results for: “adelaide”
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Review: Anastasia Finds Its Way To Adelaide In Glorious Style
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★★★★★ In a musical about deposed and murdered royalty, Australian theatre supplies two living queens. Rhonda Burchmore and Nancye Hayes finally enter the same story in the second act, and Anastasia rises with them. Like the best fairy tales, their gifts have ignored the passing years. Anastasia the Musical grew…
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Announcing Death Of A Salesman For Adelaide
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The critically acclaimed production Death of a Salesman, starring Anthony LaPaglia alongside Alison Whyte, Josh Helman and Ben O’Toole, commences previews at Her Majesty’s Theatre next Tuesday 11 August. The production also announced today it will tour to Adelaide via the Festival Theatre from 26 September to 4 October, following the previously announced…
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Review: Logan St Uncovers The Forgotten Histories Beneath Adelaide’s Streets
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★★★★★ Before Logan St begins, its audience is asked to speak. Across a floor-to-ceiling screen, Uncle Lewis O’Brien and Aunty Lynette Crocker welcome us to Kaurna Yarta. Matt Byrne’s camera moves through the landscape, capturing burbling streams and smoke curling through Country. Together, the audience declares that we have not…
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Step Into The Woods As Iconic Musical Returns To Adelaide
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Audiences are invited to step into the spellbinding world of Into the Woods, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and acclaimed writer-director James Lapine. Directed by visionary Australian director Constantine Costi, Into the Woods arrives at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide from Saturday 22 August…
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Review: Postmodern Jukebox 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★★ Before Postmodern Jukebox’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival set, a voice from the crowd yelled out: “Willie!” It was not a random heckle. It was a greeting. Willie Jay Moore Jr had not yet been handed his big solo moment. He was behind the kit, holding down the show with the…
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Review: Casey Donovan This Is Me 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★★ Casey Donovan became a household name when she won Australian Idol in 2004 as its youngest-ever champion. Now, twenty-two years later, she arrives for one night only to a packed Festival Theatre for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Despite its title, This Is Me – The Amy Winehouse Special is not about Winehouse. The…
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Review: Tara Tiba OMID 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★☆ After seven years away from the stage, the Iranian-born, Perth-based singer Tara Tiba stood in the Banquet Room last night and offered the audience something that felt fragile, defiant and alive. OMID means hope, and for Tiba, hope is not a slogan; it is a survival tool. Tiba is…
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Review: HOUSE OF ROT Grey Gardens 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★½ Anticipated by packed tables within the Space Theatre, another fabulous show, HOUSE OF ROT: Grey Gardens, joins Reuben Kaye’s ‘Delicious Revolution’ for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. A minimally lit stage, swathed in smoke, reveals a piano and five chairs. To each of the sides of the stage, wooden chairs…
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Announcing Reuben Kaye as 2027 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director
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Reuben Kaye will return to the role of Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director in 2027 following an electrifying debut program this year, which has already seen sold-out shows, five-star reviews and standing ovations across its first two weeks. Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2026 continues at Adelaide Festival Centre until 21 June. The…
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Review: Lincoln Elliott Artefact 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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“Steal shit back” is a thesis statement and also the title-song battle cry of Artefact (or, Repatriation: The Musical), Lincoln Elliott’s ambitious emo-rock heist musical about colonial theft, cultural identity, self-determination and the punishing business of making new Australian work. Presented as a work-in-progress showing at Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Artefact…
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Review: Baylie Carson Is Handsome(ish) 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★☆ Baylie Carson greets the audience before the show has even begun. They move through the Space Theatre in a blue cropped, sleeveless vest with red trim and black cargo pants. There is a bowl in hand. Inside are small slips of paper, like fortune cookies, waiting for permission. “You…
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The Future Is Vintage: Postmodern Jukebox Comes To Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox is on tour with their brand-new show, The Future is Vintage, taking them to cities across the world, including the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in a one-night-only performance. Joining the highly acclaimed troupe of singers, dancers and instrumentalists putting their signature time-twisting spin on retro hits is…
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Review: Alfie Boe With Amy Manford 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★★ The stage for Alfie Boe’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival concert is dressed like a loading dock after soundcheck. Music cases are piled high, the wings are exposed, and the crew drifts in and out of view. It is a deliberate stripping back of theatre’s usual mystique. Not quite backstage, not…
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Review: What’s The Buzz? 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★★ Adelaide did not get the full arena-sized production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Instead, it got something rarer. What’s The Buzz? was billed as an access-all-areas concert and conversation with the Australian cast of Jesus Christ Superstar, stripping back the spectacle to share songs, road stories and backstage secrets for…
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Review: Dylan Adler Haus Of Dy-lan 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★☆ Dylan Adler arrives at the grand piano in a purple and white kimono. As a classically trained pianist, Adler has spent much of his life at the keyboard. But in Haus of Dy-lan, the piano isn’t just an instrument: it is confession box, launch pad, battle station, trauma archive and…
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Review: Natalie Gamsu A Voice Like Shrapnel 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★★ Natalie Gamsu’s cabaret, A Voice Like Shrapnel, is a masterclass in storytelling. Offering a raw reflection on her life and hard-won journey towards self-acceptance, Gamsu delves deep into her past with grit and startling honesty. Co-written by Ash Flanders and director Stephen Niccolazzo – Green Room Award winner for Best Direction – the…
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Review: Em Rusciano Addicted To Love 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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★★★★★ At the centre of Em Rusciano’s Addicted To Love sits a giant heart made of roses. Roses climb the microphone stands like ivy. Rusciano herself prowls the stage with a handheld rose microphone that droops, swings and flops with unmistakable phallic mischief. This is romance as shrine, battlefield, crime…
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Adelaide Cabaret Festival Opens: Icon Award Goes To Ursula Yovich
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Ursula Yovich was presented with the 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Icon Award at last night’s sold-out Variety Gala, ahead of her highly anticipated solo performance honouring Nina Simone. The 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival continues at Adelaide Festival Centre until 21 June. Opening weekend audiences can look forward to a musical…
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Review: Pretty Woman Finds Magic In Adelaide
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★★★★½ Bold, bright, and bubbly are words that come to mind describing the entirety of director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell’s Pretty Woman: The Musical, on now in Adelaide as part of its national tour. Retaining much of the original film’s 80s charm, this adaptation, presented in Australia by Jones Theatrical…
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Review: Art Arrives In Adelaide With Bite & Brilliance
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★★★★½ Friendship can survive distance. It can survive new jobs, new partners, fluctuating bank balances and the slow indignities of middle age. Whether it can survive a white painting is another question. Yasmina Reza’s ART, first staged in Paris in 1994, has now been translated into 30 languages and has…
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Announcing Beetlejuice The Musical For Adelaide
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Michael Cassel Group, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures and Langley Park Productions announced today that the eight-time Tony Award-nominated hit musical BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL will play Adelaide in October. BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL will play the Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre from 10 October 2026, with tickets on sale this Thursday 7 May. BEETLEJUICE THE…
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Announcing Illuminate Adelaide 2026 Program
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Illuminate Adelaide has today unveiled its 2026 program, returning from 1 – 19 July with a dynamic lineup, including 11 world premieres, 11 Adelaide exclusives and over 100 experiences and performances transforming South Australia’s capital into a vibrant winter playground of light, art, music, technology and culinary discovery. Led by…
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CabLive Returns: Adelaide Artists Wanted For Cabaret Showcase
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After a strong debut night, Cabaret Fringe Adelaide’s new open-mic series CabLive is already building momentum, with organisers calling for a fresh wave of performers ahead of its second instalment. The first CabLive event, held last weekend, drew a lively crowd and showcased a mix of emerging and established cabaret…
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Review: Xanadu Rolls Big At The Elder Con Adelaide
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Xanadu is a camp, chaotic and utterly joyful story of the courage it takes to take creative and personal risks. The 2026 Graduating Class at Adelaide University’s Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre have unapologetically delivered just that. Their production fully leans into Xanadu’s loveable absurdity, with this group of performers donning their skates and…
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Review: Dracula Returns To Adelaide & Makes A Powerful Case For The Arts
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★★★★★ You cannot stage Dracula as a ballet unless you go all in. It has to be lavish. It has to seduce. West Australian Ballet understands that from the first moment, and this production delivers scale, spectacle, and a dark, intoxicating beauty that, like Dracula’s love of Elizabeth, never lets…
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Michael Ralph On Xanadu, Creativity & Bringing The Magic To Adelaide
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The Elder Conservatorium’s Bachelor of Music Theatre company is rolling into 2026 with Xanadu as its first major production of the year. Packed with roller skates, high-energy choreography and a whole lot of spirit, this cult favourite promises a joyful start to the season. Ahead of opening night last night,…
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Announcing Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2026 Program
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The world’s largest cabaret festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has unveiled its 2026 program, featuring a star‑studded line‑up of comedy, theatre and music with tickets on sale from 12pm today, Wednesday 1 April. Unveiling his debut program as Artistic Director, multi-award-winning Australian comedian, singer, and writer Reuben Kaye presents the 2026…
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Review: Cluedo Hits Adelaide With Murder Most Madcap
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★★★★★ You may not know who the killer is, but Cluedo knows exactly what it is. And crucially, unlike its colourful cast of villains, it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. Based on the cult 1985 film written by Jonathan Lynn, itself inspired by the classic board game, this stage…
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Review: Fuccbois Live In Concert 2026 Adelaide Fringe
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★★★★☆ They’ve been creating music, travelling the world and breaking hearts for twelve years. Now, it’s time to say goodbye forever. Welcome to the final show of the Fuccbois Farewell Tour (NO encores). Your favourite heartthrobs, Brendan, Brandon, Tyler and Also Brendan, will pelvic thrust and four-part harmonise their way through…
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Announcing The Book Of Mormon For Perth & Adelaide
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Perth and Adelaide, the Mormons are back! The Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® award-winning production THE BOOK OF MORMON will return to Crown Theatre Perth from October and the Festival Theatre Adelaide from December 2026. Visit www.thebookofmormonmusical.com.au to sign up to the ticket waitlist for priority access to tickets. This follows previous announcements…
