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…
To 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 Ski…
Paul 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 onto…
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 only thi…
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…
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, '80s starle…
Tommy 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 hard t…
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' to b…
Kate 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 and…
The Adelaide Festival Centre and The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will combine across two nights on Friday May 31Â and Saturday 1 June 1 at 8pm in a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. …
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 …
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 piec…
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 well…
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 revolve…
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 t…
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 Festival…
Kate Ceberano released a little of her positive energy to an appreciative audience at The Festival Centre last night with her launch of the 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Programme. Molly Ri…
For most South Australians an evening of flamenco " and we have fine singers, guitarists and dancers here with regular contact with Spain " is a bare stage, some guitars, and percussion and …
The final theatrical production of the 2013 Adelaide Festival was the Warsaw based TR Warszawa Company's production of Nosferatu, adapted and directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna. The play was perfo…
Finally, a chance to see what all the fuss is about. Sylvie Guillem, prima ballerina assoluta, and the darling of the world's greatest contemporary choreographers, comes to Adelaide in a tri…
Beowulf, was originally written sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries as an epic Anglo-Saxon poem. Jason Craig's incarnation; Beowulf " A Thousand Years Of Baggage, makes its Australia…
Sell Out Tour is an absurdist comedy incorporating aspects of surrealism and physical theatre. The show originated from street theatre performances and developed into the more traditional pr…
Look Mum, I said "F***" in public lots of times, and anyway, I'm gay so there! Billed as gay comedy for the masses, this is much more gay comedy (such as it is) for the gays. Ethan is a tall…
Forty five years on, it still fascinates, and holds up as a real classic. Stanley Kubrick's epic film is a work of genius by a man far ahead of his time. Combined with the 96 piece Adela…
What the Body Does Not Remember, essentially the debut work of the choreographer and the company Ultima Vez, established Belgian choreographer Wim Vanderkeybus as a major force when it was f…