Adelaide Cabaret Festival

Variety Gala Performance
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
June 10.

It’s that time again. Defying the mid-June wintry blast, the Adelaide Festival Centre opens every door and available performance space for thirteen nights of the best of burlesque, Broadway, music theatre and punk satire. Now in its sixteenth year the Adelaide Cabaret Festival has consolidated a reputation that has attracted legends and innovators from Europe, the UK and the Big Apple itself.

On the Festival Theatre stage …

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2015
Adelaide Festival Centre

Steve Sheehan’s Tristan and Isolde
with Norma Knight
Festival Theatre Rehearsal Room
June 16

Naughty or Nice
Ray Jessel
The Space
June 20

Love Songs for Sir Les
Barry Humphries and Guests
Festival Theatre
June 20.

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival has closed shop and it is all smiles in the counting house. With 45 sold-out shows, and the best box office numbers in its 15 year history, the festival is stronger and more …

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2015

Variety Gala Performance
Festival Theatre
June 5.

Peter and Jack
Teddy Tahu Rhodes, The Idea of North
Greta Bradman with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
June 7.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2015
Adelaide Festival Centre
Bookings BASS 131 246;
adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au
until June 20.

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival mid-winter revels have begun. Now in its 15^th year, it is currently in the mischievous care of that Lord of Misrule, Barry Humphries.

Soon after he was appointed, he impishly …

Daily Review

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: From Kate With Love

21 June, 2014
Adelaide Cabaret Festival
June 6 – 21

With the Winter Solstice comes the end of the 2014 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Now in its fifteenth year the festival has proven a staunch success and a boost for the Adelaide Festival Centre in a usually dark month. Using every speck of space in the venue, this year’s Cabaret Festival featured some 470 artists in more than 60 shows, 35 of …

Freedman Does Nilsson
Tim Freedman
Dunstan Playhouse
June 12.

Waiting For My Real Life
Colin Hay
Dunstan Playhouse
June 13.

Murray Bramwell

The Harry Nilsson story is as paradoxical as it is sad. He had great success; but his biggest hits were covers of other writers’ songs. He was a brilliant vocalist, but never performed live. His first album was ignored by everyone – except John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He had an eight album contract with RCA Records and …

Variety Gala Performance
Festival Theatre
June 6.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2014
Adelaide Festival Centre
Bookings BASS 131 246;
adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au
until June 21.

In a flurry of feathers, finery and red carpet the 14^th Adelaide Cabaret Festival has opened with its usual first night event, the Variety Gala Performance, but, outgoing Artistic Director, Kate Ceberano insists, “it’s not the usual suspects.”

Perhaps that is a nod towards those who wonder what exactly “cabaret” is these days. Is it Weimar cafes …