Search results for: “adelaide cabaret”
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Review: Sugar By Tomáš Kantor 2026 Midsumma Festival
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Showing at Arts Centre Melbourne for 2026 Midsumma Festival, Sugar performed by Tomáš Kantor is a riotous cocktail of camp glamour, irresistible pop, and larger-than-life storytelling. Brought to life through Kitan Petkovski’s precise, astute direction, with acerbic, razor-sharp writing by Ro Bright, this dazzling cabaret follows the mischievous exploits of…
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The Scoop Favourite Shows Of 2025 Part Three: Circus & Festivals
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It’s been one year since The Scoop was created, and the first feature published was my personal list of Favourite Shows of the year. As 2025 comes to a close, we have been looking back at some of the shows that stood out this year. This next instalment is an eclectic mix of our…
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Reuben Kaye Announces New Show: Hard To Swallow In 2026
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Reuben Kaye returns with a brand-new solo cabaret comedy show, Hard to Swallow – sharper, sexier and more political than ever, touring Australia in 2026. The tour kicks off in Perth at the end of January, and continues to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. In this no-holds-barred spectacle, Kaye dives…
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Review: Reuben Kaye Reigns Supreme In enGORGEd
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Reuben Kaye returned to Brisbane for one night only last night for the Queensland premiere of his acclaimed show, enGORGEd, at the Concert Hall, QPAC, co-presented with Melt Festival. I haven’t known – or known of – Reuben Kaye for long. I first met him at the Media Call for Jesus…
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Reuben Kaye Blasts Back To Brisbane With enGORGEd
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The irrepressible and multi-award-winning Australian comedian, singer, and writer, Reuben Kaye (Spicks and Specks, Celebrity Letters & Numbers, The Kaye Hole) returns to shake up Brisbane with the Queensland premiere of his acclaimed show enGORGEd for one night only in Queensland Performing Art Centre’s (QPAC) Concert Hall on 6 November 2025, co-presented with Brisbane’s 2025 Melt Festival. Hitting…
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Hayes In New Places: Announcing Hayes Theatre Co 2027 Season
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As they prepare for their final year as Artistic Directors, Richard Carroll and Victoria Falconer have announced Hayes Theatre Co’s biggest season yet for 2027, taking its acclaimed brand of musical theatre beyond its home in Potts Point with a program of ambitious new work, bold reimaginings, beloved classics and…
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Announcing Menopause The Musical 2026 Cast
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The global hit Menopause The Musical® has unveiled the cast for its 2026 Australian tour, returning to stages across the country from August with a brand-new production. The tour opens in Geelong this month before travelling to Parramatta, Melbourne, Newcastle, Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra, bringing audiences a night of uncontrollable laughter, uplifting…
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Review: The Man Who Came To Dinner Is Christmas In July With Claws
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★★★★½ Peter Goers may be one of the few Adelaide performers who could walk on stage as Sheridan Whiteside and make the audience feel the casting joke before the first barb has fully landed. Following his successful return to the stage last year in Harvey, Goers now plays the acerbic…
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Review: You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown Is About Nothing, & Everything
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★★★★★ There is something almost radical about how little happens in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Before Seinfeld, this was the musical about nothing. Nobody saves the world, nobody gets the girl. Nobody has a glitter-cannon self-realisation. Charlie Brown cannot fly a kite. He cannot kick a football. He…
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Announcing Cast For Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular
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The Australian cast of ‘COME ALIVE!’ The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular has today been announced for the first tour outside of its ongoing sellout run in London. ‘COME ALIVE!’ The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular kicks off a national tour on 19 May in Sydney under the purpose-built Hippodrome at the…
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Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett Returns To The Meat Market in 2026
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Following a phenomenal, sell-out 2025 season, and due to overwhelming demand, Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett returns to North Melbourne’s iconic Meat Market for a limited season from 17 April – 24 May 2026. The critically acclaimed show is once again led by the undisputed queen of Weimar kabarett, Bernie Dieter.…
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Announcing Tootsie Musical To Make Australian Premiere Sydney
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Co-Founders Nathan M Wright and Andrew Bevis (The Addams Family, The Prom) today announced that the hit Broadway musical Tootsie will make its highly anticipated Australian premiere this May at Teatro at the Italian Forum in Sydney. The production further cements the company’s reputation for bringing acclaimed international premieres and…
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Announcing Freak Out! The Afterparty To Close Out Midsumma Festival
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For one night only, FREAK OUT! THE AFTERPARTY is set to become the ultimate late-night closer destination for the Midsumma Festival. A wild collision of burlesque, circus, cabaret, and live acts, all set to the pulsing, nostalgic beat of a 90s house music soundtrack runs on Saturday 7 February 2026. …
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Announcing Cast For Phantom Of The Opera
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Opera Australia has announced that Australian musical theatre royalty, celebrated soprano Amy Manford has been cast as Christine Daaé in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera when it returns for a much anticipated, limited season at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour from 27 March to 3 May 2026.…
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Coffee, Cats & Conversation: A Chat With Lucy Maunder
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The first time I saw Lucy Maunder, she was playing Roxie Hart in Chicago, at Crown Theatre Perth. The second time was via Zoom last Thursday morning, in the context of an interview about her role in CATS. Both of us were in morning mode, with our respective offspring somewhere in…
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Brisbane Festival 2025 Bursts To Life As The City Turns Technicolour
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Today marks the spectacular opening of Brisbane Festival 2025, launching 23 glorious days of performance, public art and participation across the city. Running until 27 September, the festival features 106 productions, 1,069 performances and 2,260 artists – with 21 world premieres and more than 43% of events free to the…
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Review: Beauty And The Beast Has Perth Under Its Spell
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Beauty and the Beast is deeply ingrained in our cultural zeitgeist. Multiple generations across countless cultures have resonated with some form of archetypal narrative about the transformative power of empathic love. Disney’s 1991 animated classic, Beauty and the Beast, is by far the most beloved, alongside its 2017 live-action remake, and the…
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Brisbane Festival Launches Its Epic 2025 Program
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Brisbane Festival has unveiled its most expansive and city-shaping program to date, in a dynamic celebration of art, culture and community. The blockbuster 2025 program invites audiences to experience the city anew — from towering whale bones on the river to a world premiere dance trilogy, and bridges reimagined as…
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And Then There Was Mia: Taking the Lead in Christie’s Iconic Mystery
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Agatha Christie’s thriller And Then There Were None opened in Sydney last week, after a highly successful debut in Melbourne earlier in the year. Mia Morrissey plays Vera Claythorne in this all new adaptation. The Scoop had the chance to sit down with Mia amid the tour. Mia talks all…
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Review: La Clique Is A Wild Wet And Wonderfully Weird Night Out
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Celebrating 20 years since its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, La Clique is back – brasher, bolder, and more brilliant than ever. Currently touring Australia, the Olivier Award-winning circus cabaret is a whirlwind of comedy, burlesque, and sheer chaos. It’s vaudeville for the 21st century, and it doesn’t care about…
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Review: The Lady Boys of Bangkok Bring Glamour and Good Vibes to Gluttony
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The Australian premiere of The Lady Boys of Bangkok has taken Gluttony by storm this Adelaide Fringe season. And what a treat it is to have them here! If you are looking for an exotic escape into a world of glitz, glamour and girls like no other, you must catch…
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Review: Primal the Show Leaves Audiences Panting For More
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The Adelaide Fringe is overwhelmingly spoilt for choice for shows in the circus cabaret genre. However, I am here to make your next show choice easy, because Primal is an exclusive feast of circus unlike the others! From the creators of Rouge and Shake It, Highwire Entertainment is treating the…
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Review: Infamous Thrills with Big Top Delights
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Awarded Best Fringe Show in 2024, Infamous is back and amazes once again with jaw-dropping circus delights. Located in a big top tent in Ellis Park on the western outskirts of the city, Infamous was first created in 2017 by 6th generation circus performer Joseph Ashton. Formerly known as Ashton’s…
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Review: MARVELous the Show A Gloriously Good Time
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If you are after a Thor-oughly entertaining night out, MARVELous the Show is the ultimate whirlwind of chaotic fun! Whether you are a Marvel Universe expert or only vaguely familiar with the characters, MARVELous the Show has a glorious mix of parodies and pop culture references that will leave any…
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Review: La Ronde A Daring Dance of Desire and Acrobatics
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A trip to the Garden of Unearthly Delights would not be complete without one of Strut & Fret’s circus cabaret shows. Making its world premiere in 2025 is La Ronde, a grand variété of circus extraordinaires, and it does not disappoint! Director Scott Maidment has gathered a collection of stunning,…
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Review: LIMBO is Edge of Your Seat Entertainment
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Adelaide, you better strap yourself onto the edge of your seat because LIMBO – The Return is this season’s Fringe bucket list show! Causing quite a social media buzz last year, Strut & Fret’s world-renowned circus cabaret show LIMBO has made a triumphant return to the Adelaide Fringe! Off the…
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Review: Blanc de Blanc Encore Has Never Looked Better
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While many local theatre companies are just coming back to work after the festive break, the party never stopped at The West End Electric. Since its arrival in November, Blanc de Blanc Encore has been wowing audiences with its blend of comedic charm, dazzling circus acts and stunning cabaret performances.…
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Musical Theatre Reviews
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Musical Theatre reviews from Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and around Australia
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The Scoop Review: Best Shows of 2024
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This year, in my house, we cancelled all our streaming subscriptions. Even Netflix! (Not Prime, of course: we want the free postage.) But it had come to the point where we just weren’t watching TV anymore, so it made sense to unsubscribe and save the money. When I wasn’t tucked…
