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2019 Adelaide Cabaret Festival

Wednesday, October 23

Cabaret review: RocKwiz Salutes Rock Musicals

According to her RocKwiz sidekick Brian Nankervis, when Julia Zemiro accepted the gig as artistic director of Adelaide’s Cabaret Festival she said something to the effect of “Okay, but we’re bringing RocKwiz.” Easy to say that’s what being the boss means – do whatever the hell you want – but in this case, it just made perfect sense.

Cabaret review: Kate Miller-Heidke

What better way to end the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, which has always stretched the concept of the art form, than an eclectic reworking of the songs of Kate Miller-Heidke – one of Australia’s most genre-elastic songwriters and performers?

Cabaret review: Vika and Linda Bull – Between Two Shores

If God’s best instrument is the human voice, two superb examples featured at the Dunstan Playhouse in Vika and Linda Bull’s Between Two Shores.

Six Adelaide Cabaret Festival highlights from Julia Zemiro

Adelaide Cabaret Festival artistic director Julia Zemiro nominates six highlights – from classic cabaret acts to the unexpected – amid an eclectic line-up of festival performances featuring more than 380 artists over 16 days.

Cabaret review: Dickie Beau – Unplugged

Unplugged is a tiny miracle at the heart of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Dickie Beau opens up cabaret’s box of tricks and places the contents inside a beautifully constructed, thought-provoking piece of theatre.

Pub Choir: Singing is fun – but is it for everyone?

Surrounded by a large crowd of people chanting, laughing and toasting their schooners in the Famous Spiegeltent, you can find yourself wondering: Just because we can sing, should we?

Fat Musicals is bigger than Broadway

Hot on the heels of their successful gin-fuelled show Mother’s Ruin, cabaret duo Maeve Marsden and Libby Wood are back in Adelaide with a new tongue-in-cheek body of work that promises to be ‘bigger than Broadway’.

Cabaret Festival review: Max Savage – Nobody Knows My Name

Max Savage and his band deliver a brilliant and original musical journey through Adelaide’s after-dark streets and bars in a Cabaret Festival premiere that deserves an encore.

Cabaret Festival review: Liner Notes Live presents Ziggy Stardust

As wild and eclectic as the original album, Liner Notes Live: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is a fabulous chocolate-box of Bowie-inspired performances.

Cabaret Festival review: Roscoe James Irwin – Lost in a Dream

Australian musician Roscoe James Irwin re-creates the music of American jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker in this fittingly soulful tribute.

Cabaret Festival review: Paul Capsis

Could there be a more consummate or captivating cabaret performance than Paul Capsis – dressed in leather, fur and full make-up – singing ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’ in the Famous Spiegeltent?

2019 Adelaide Cabaret Festival opening night

Led by artistic director Julia Zemiro, a varied line-up of cabaret stars entertained guests at Friday night’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival opening show The House is Live at Thebarton Theatre.

Cabaret Festival review: Broadway Bound (but not gagged)

Broadway Bound (but not gagged) sees Sydney-born performer Kaye Tuckerman tell the tale of her dogged pursuit of the Broadway dream in a performance featuring songs ranging from musical classics to an ABBA medley.

Cabaret Festival review: The Swell Mob

UK company Flabbergast Theatre invites audience members to lose themselves in a delightfully sinful world filled with thieves, lovers and vagrants in the Australian premiere of The Swell Mob.

A sparkling old new venue for Adelaide Cabaret Festival

One of the last remaining antique Belgium mirror tents will come to life for Julia Zemiro’s inaugural Adelaide Cabaret Festival, hosting an eclectic line-up of live performances and a late-night club on weekends.

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2019 Adelaide Cabaret Festival opening night

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