This would, without doubt, be the most intellectually stimulating offering in this Cabaret Festival and a thoroughly absorbing and enriching session it proved to be.
Lanie Lane and Betty, her 1957 arch top guitar, presented an hour of blues in a traditional vein.
For this performance Elizabeth Cousemacker turned to the music of three of the great composers, Noël Coward, Kurt Weill and Cole Porter.
This show was marred by a truly dreadful sound mix, making it impossible to fairly judge the performance.
The Variety Gala Performance was sold out even before the programme of events had been printed, and for good reason.
Lisa Flanagan gives a warm and sensitive performance as she tells the stories of major events through the remembrances of friends and family members.
This is probably the best thing that State Theatre has offered for some time, so try to catch it.
Adelaide Festival Centre and National Pharmacies proudly announce the much anticipated 2010 Something on Saturday season, now in its 33nd year and running from 8 May to 4 September.
Presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre the 2010 Adelaide International Guitar Festival will run over four days from 25 – 28 November. This Festival is a celebration of the world’s most popular instrument, bringing together some of the best guitarists from around Australia and the world, with artists crossing a range of genres and showcasing their skill, musicianship and creativity.
This dance/drama/documentary piece is based on the devastating 1980 Ash Wednesday bushfires as experienced by choreographer Katrina Lazaroff and her family.
Written by Don Reid, this play documents the exercise sessions at a local gymnasium, Gerry’s Gym, where five long term friends gather weekly.
A decade of cabaret and there’s more to come as the Adelaide Festival Centre and Artistic Director for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, David Campbell, announce the 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival program, 11 – 26 June, proudly supported by Principal Partner FOXTEL.
Cast your eyes on an exciting array of items, some not previously displayed, from the Visual Arts and Performing Arts Collections, in Treasures of the Adelaide Festival Centre collections in the Artspace Gallery (upstairs in the Dunstan Playhouse) at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
Renowned violinist, Richard Tognetti, performed and conducted Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 .with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Adelaide Fringe artists came and conquered this month with a plethora of acts that enchanted, entertained, challenged and sometimes just weirded out Fringe-hungry audiences.To celebrate their successes, the Adelaide Fringelast night threw a huge party and gave out a bunch of gold stars to the cream of the event’s program.
This is a programme of two linked but contrasting works; Rubicon, choreographed by Paris based Melbournian Prue Lang in collaboration with the dancers, and Meridian, choreographed by our own Leigh Warren.
This production is a dramatisation of the first part of William Faulkner’s book, the chapter entitled April Seventh, 1928.
This is an energetic, well constructed and engaging show, filled with constant variations in dance style and much more.
Inspired by a conversation overheard in a food court, this haunting expose of bullying and abuse is enacted by five intellectually disabled actors.