All posts tagged "Cabaret"
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916ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Nobody Knows My Name
With his new show, Nobody Knows My Name, Max Savage presents original songs and spoken-word all set around the city after-dark.
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1.5KArtsCabaret Festival Review: Alma Zygier Quintet
Sometimes words just get in the way; this set of songs transcends what you would expect from a jazz quintet.
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1.4KArtsCabaret Festival Review: Paul Capsis with Jethro Woodward & the Fitzroy Youth Orchestra
Capsis live is a religious experience. His latest avatar is Rock God, and in this show, he performs a dozen rock, pop, R’n’B, jazz, theatre and whatever songs.
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1.4KArtsCabaret Festival Review: Last Dance, The Forgotten Masters
Aaron Cash hits the stage and sings the first few bars of a famous song then, in the manner of all good cabaret performance, this show takes a turn, or two.
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1.9KArtsCabaret Festival Review: Kaye Tuckerman – Broadway Bound (But Not Gagged)
In seventy minutes, Tuckerman sings twelve songs or medleys. In between songs, she chats engagingly to us about the ups and downs of her professional career. It’s a simple recipe, and like most simple recipes, it works.
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1.9KArtsCabaret Festival Review: The Letter String Quartet With Tina Del Twist – The Silly Season
Tina del Twist is played by Australian singer/actor/writer/comedian/producer and director Wes Snelling. She is Wes’s bohemian Auntie - the family misfit, never quite fitting in. With a good serve of red wine, in a brandy balloon big enough to bath a baby in, Tina stumbles on stage to begin what she thinks is her Christmas concert.
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2.8KArtsAdelaide Cabaret Festival Review: Megan Mullally and her band Nancy and Beth
The band Nancy and Beth is the creation of Megan Mullally, who is recognisable from her role as Karen in the hit television show Will & Grace. She is joined on stage by her co-creator Stephanie Hunt from Friday Night Lights.
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2.0KArtsAdelaide Cabaret Festival Review: Unsung – Amelia Ryan and Libby O’Donovan
It is just like the publicity says, it’s raucous, it’s nostalgic and it’s a loud and proud celebration of the incredibly long list of talented Australian women who have graced our pop and rock scene.
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1.3KArtsAdelaide Cabaret Festival Review: Suburban Gothic
Directed by Steven Gates (Tripod), Suburban Gothic boasts three cabaret singers and an impressive band complete with cello, drums, and baby grand piano.
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2.3KArtsAdelaide Cabaret Festival Review: The 11 O’Clock Number – Haus of Hans
It wouldn’t be an Adelaide Cabaret Festival without our favourite fabulously faux German, Hans, and he’s ready to keep your night of cabaret fun going in the entertaining variety show 11 O’Clock Hour with Haus of Hans.
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2.1KCabaret FringeCabaret Fringe Festival Review: Friendly Feminism For The Mild Mannered
Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered is the debut original cabaret show by Adelaide-based performer Millicent Sarre.
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3.8KCabaret FringeCabaret Fringe Festival Review: Shake It
Shake It offers an hour of entertainment, packed with guest acts from across the burlesque, circus and cabaret communities, both in Adelaide and interstate.
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1.4KArtsCabaret Festival Review: The Swell Mob
Eighteenth century taproom etiquette isn’t hard to pick up. you get the idea in no time.
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1.7KArtsAdelaide Cabaret Festival Review: Dolly Diamond: Parton Me
Dolly Parton fans will find themselves delighted by Dolly Diamond’s unique cabaret interpretation of the country singer’s biggest hits.
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1.7KArtsCabaret Festival Review: Taxithi
The Greek word “taxithi” translates into English as “journey”. Yet in the way of Greek words, it evokes so much more than mere movement. It encompasses yearning, sorrow, optimism and hope, along with grief and loss. It is the word which sums up the experience of almost any migrant.
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1.5KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Discharged! A Nursing Cabaret
There’s much comedy, witty song rewrites, costumes, zany characters, and the odd medical prop, all presented with considerable energy by this solo performer.
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1.7KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Spice Rack
Anyone growing up in the late 90’s would be all too familiar with the music of the Spice Girls, the fun pop group from the UK who spawned several hits around the globe! Anyone coming to see Spice Rack strictly for a tribute show of the girls were definitely not getting just that. This was a tribute show with a twist, and more of a variety hour of skits and musical mash-ups.
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2.2KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: A Stitch In Time: A Knitting Cabaret
A Stitch In Time is a terrific cabaret of knitting songs and quirky facts from WWI and WWII, researched, developed and presented by the Canadian singer, Melanie Gall
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1.3KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Squeeze My Cabaret
Alongside her hugely successful Squeeze My Cans, theatrical polymath Cathy Schenkelberg is premiering her new show, Squeeze My Cabaret, at this year’s Fringe. It is a blatant fun-poke at the silliness of a so-called “religion” founded by a science-fiction writer.
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1.5KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: A Hero
What lies behind the mask of a hero? In the vernacular of social media, “it’s complicated”.
