Search results for: “adelaide cabaret”
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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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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: Tomáš Kantor Sparkles In Sugar At Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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Sugar, Spice and a whole lot of sparkle – Tomáš Kantor’s cabaret debut is a riotous plunge into the sweet and salacious side of transactional relationships. Sugar is a party mix of pop hits, sexual politics and emotional vulnerability that collide in the most deliciously chaotic way.It is no wonder that Sugar is an…
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Adelaide Cabaret Festival Celebrates 25 Years With A Sparkling Start Tonight
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Get ready to raise your glass and throw on your sequins as the 25th Adelaide Cabaret Festival kicks off tonight with a spectacular red carpet opening and a sold-out 2025 Variety Gala at Her Majesty’s Theatre. The world’s largest cabaret festival and Australia’s favourite winter celebration returns with its trademark…
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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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Win Tickets To LASSÙ Cosmic Cabaret At Adelaide Fringe!
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Step into LASSÙ Cosmic Cabaret Saloon perched on the galaxy’s edge, where space cowboys, alien drifters, and the legendary Rodeo Sisters dazzle with out-of-this-world acts. Join Rodeo Clown Rusty as he journeys through the golden days of LASSÙ, determined to revive the magic that once filled the saloon. Immerse yourself…
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Review: The Perfect Life (A Musical By Amity Dry) 2026 Adelaide Fringe
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★★★★★ ARIA Gold singer-songwriter of The Lighthouse and former contestant on The Block: All Stars, Amity Dry has a powerful story to tell. And it’s our story. The story of women. The Perfect Life (A Musical by Amity Dry) arrives at this year’s Adelaide Fringe. Think Desperate Housewives, but less desperate and no murder. We meet…
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Review: Confessions Club Vol. III 2026 Adelaide Fringe
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★★★★★ The Adelaide Fringe has never been shy about late-night mischief, but Confessions Club Vol. III pushes past cheeky into something more theatrical. It’s sexy, yes, but it’s also surprisingly crafted. Beneath the kink and glitter sits a show about ownership of desire. The production returns to the Fringe after…
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Review: Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett 2026 Adelaide Fringe
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★★★★★ The hottest cabaret club East of Berlin has arrived in Adelaide, instantly cementing themselves in my eyes as the 5-star, unmissable show this Fringe season! Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett is a raunchy, mesmerising and welcoming escape that will have you squealing, gasping and lapping up every glorious second. Bernie…
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The Garden of Unearthly Delights Best Circus 2026 Adelaide Fringe
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Tonight, Australia’s favourite outdoor performance precinct, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, will once again bloom into the beating heart of the 2026 Adelaide Fringe, transforming Rundle Park / Kadlitpina into a vibrant celebration of world-class performances, including unbelievable jaw-dropping circus acts. The Garden’s 2026 Program showcases more than 115 dynamic…
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Review: Cirque Alice Turns Adelaide Upside Down
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Adelaide, it’s time to follow the White Rabbit to Her Majesty’s Theatre for a feast of circus like no other! Cirque Alice has come to town, offering us a magical escape to Wonderland this January. On opening night, Adelaide audiences were left utterly surprised and delighted at the sheer extravaganza…
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Announcing Cabaret At Teatro In November
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The cabaret event of the year, the inaugural season of Cabaret at TEATRO, Sydney’s newest theatre, is set to take over the Italian Forum theatre this November in one of the biggest star-studded line-ups across a limited three-week season. Presented by Gale Edwards and Max Lambert in association with On…
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Announcing Cirque Alice For Adelaide In 2026
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Following sell-out seasons in Brisbane and Singapore, Adelaide Festival Centre has announced the Adelaide premiere season of Cirque Alice, an epic new show from the creators of the global smash hit The Illusionists that will transform Her Majesty’s Theatre into a Wonderland from 8 – 18 January 2026. This acclaimed,…
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Review: Wonderfully Terrible Things A Dark and Daring Circus Cabaret
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Hailing from Sydney, Cirque Songstress Productions has returned to the 2025 Adelaide Fringe with Wonderfully Terrible Things. Living up to its name, lead vocalist Christine Ibrahim and her cast blend delightfully daring stunts with hilariously cheeky moments that are just the right amount of terrible in the best possible way!…
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Review: Jesus Christ Superstar Rises To The Challenge
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★★★★☆ A guitarist stands in silhouette against a blood-red backdrop. Mark Lanigan-O’Keefe attacks Andrew Lloyd Webber’s opening riff, his shadow thrown across the stage as though Jimmy Page has wandered into Golgotha. The image captures the challenge facing Therry Theatre. Jesus Christ Superstar belongs to musical theatre, but it was…
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Review: A Transgender Woman On The Internet, Crying
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★★★★½ A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying, a world premiere musical from Green Door Theatre Company, isn’t perfect, but it teaches us that it shouldn’t have to be. Following acclaimed concert presentations at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and the Hayes Festival of New Work, the show arrives in Sydney…
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Announcing Cast For Mackenzie: A World Premiere By Bell Shakespeare
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Bell Shakespeare today announced the cast for the upcoming world premiere of Mackenzie, a new play by visionary creator Yve Blake, including five original songs. The production will open in Sydney at The Neilson Nutshell from 6 June – 18 July, before touring to Arts Centre Melbourne from 23 July…
