Sunday, August 4, 2013
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a rip-snorting comedy of histrionic extravagance. It’s William Shakespeare meets the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59PMThursday, July 25, 2013
The most revolutionary thing about Ballet Revolución is in its philosophy on dance: forget the history, the traditional and modern theories, and the techniques; just sit back and enjoy it! …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:01PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is a complicated farce which stands the test of time. Despite retaining much of the dated language from this early Shakespearian work, the State …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:17PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Michelle Nightingale’s Born To Run played to a sold-out audience in the Artspace Theatre, despite being programmed on the same night at the same time as a one-off performance by Martha Wai…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:28PMPhil Scott crawls onto the stage as a shipwrecked sailor might crawl onto a beach looking around in awe saying, ‘I Survived’. Only, Scott is wearing aviator glasses, a beanie and ca…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:48AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
We have no choice over how we are born, and the choice as to how and when we die is still not generally in our own hands. Call it assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, it’s still a cri…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:41AMMonday, June 24, 2013
Lady Rizo (Amelia Zirin-Brown, a Grammy award winning Diva) is guaranteed to energise and entertain those punters starting to feel “Festivaled out” during the final week of the 2013 Adel…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMFriday, June 21, 2013
To say Barb Jungr is a second string Marianne Faithfull isn’t quite fair but she really does have the moves like Jagger. If Jungr ever grows tired of performing live she could always make …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Jose Carbo, known in Adelaide for his State Opera Figaro and a scene stealing spot at the Christmas Proms opened his latin heart with the music of his native Argentina in a tribute to that m…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PMBaby et Lulu, a couple of unabashed Francophile chanteuses, put on a show that leaves their audience feeling as refreshed as a bottle of sweet white wine rather than Cabaret’s standard nig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:57PMThe superlative adjectives used to describe Bernadette Robinson, her voice, her shows and her ability to engage and entertain an audience have been flying around for years now — and she …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:50PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
She might look like Elvira with an undercut but close your eyes and there are times when Joey Arias will take you straight back to the smoky Jazz ‘n Blues of Billie Holiday. Arias on Holid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:49AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Robyn Archer began her career as a cabaret singer at the opening of Adelaide’s Space Theatre in Brecht and Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins in 1974. Her international career as a performer and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:49PMWhen Jacques Brel died in 1978 at the age of 49 he left behind a body of work whose influence extends far beyond any barriers of genre, culture or age. Still, The Adelaide Cabaret Festival�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:45AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Christine Johnston, best known as one of the three Kransky Sisters, brings her latest oddball venture, RRAMP, to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Songs, dances, animation and more are all deli…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:15PMSaturday, June 15, 2013
David Pomeranz walked on stage and did something unusual. Instead of simply beginning his one-man show, Chaplin: A Life In Concert, he stood centre-stage and explained why he was doing it. A…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:56AMTo a twinkle from her pianist Australian Lucy Maunder walked on stage in a skimpy black dress, sat down in front of the piano and began a slow and gentle recital of Irving Berlin’s ‘Blue…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:51AMPaul Capsis usually puts on a good show and his current outing at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival The Paul Capsis Revue is no exception. In fact it’s a rollicking good time. Capsis struts on…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:39AMThursday, June 13, 2013
Darren Percival’s sold–out audience felt the warmth on a cold winter night in Adelaide. If anyone came expecting to see Percival channel Ray Charles then they’d be disappointed. The on…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Kristin Chenoweth has twice the voice of Dolly Parton (at only half the price) and she used that voice to knock the socks off her audience at the Festival Theatre in her Australian stage deb…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:45AMSunday, June 9, 2013
The “children of the ‘80s” (as baby-boomer child of the ‘60s Joan Baez so eloquently put it at the seminal ‘80s event Live Aid) are now into or fast approaching their 40s. At 45, �…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:20PMTommy Bradson’s Reg Livermore tribute show Reg is a blast! The show is a world premiere commissioned by Artistic Director Kate Ceberano for the 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival but it’s ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:59AMSaturday, June 8, 2013
The Festival State is about to get a brand new Festival. Rose Wight OAM has joined forces with Penelope Curtin to present ‘The Body in the Garden — a crime and garden writers’ festival…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMKate Ceberano rolled out the red carpet and South Australians felt the love at last night’s Variety Gala Performance of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. A galactic array of local, national a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:19AMFriday, May 31, 2013
The Adelaide Festival Centre and The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will combine across two nights on Friday May 31 and Saturday 1 June 1 at 8pm in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMSaturday, May 18, 2013
5.1 have pulled off quite a coup with the world premiere stage production of this impressive and confronting play. Some years ago, a gay friend of mine living in a large share household was …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:18PMThursday, April 25, 2013
The Bakehouse Theatre plays host to Canadian playwright Morris Panych’s 2003 award-winning Girl In The Goldfish Bowl. A mild, yet interesting and engaging drama representing a crossover pi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:44PMSunday, April 21, 2013
Patch Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Dave Brown has announced he will leave the top post in 2015. With a typically innovative approach, the outgoing Artistic Director of Adelaide’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
As part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations The Adelaide Festival Centre is presenting two exhibitions under the banner of the Spirit of the ‘70s. The first, Signifying Change, will revol…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:27PMThursday, April 11, 2013
The locals turned out in force for the opening of Northern Light Theatre Company’s production of Little Shop of Horrors at the swank Shedley Theatre in Elizabeth. There were also plenty of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:23PMMonday, April 8, 2013
David Sefton’s first Adelaide Festival recently concluded as an artistic, box-office and personal success for the new Artistic Director. 2013 also marked the first time the Adelaide Festiv…
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