All posts tagged "Michael Griffiths"

Cabaret Festival Review: Carlotta! The Party’s Over

Carlotta delivered an incredible performance and had the audience eating out of the palm of her hand

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Adelaide Fringe Review: Simply Brill: Hits of the 60s

Michael Griffiths, Amelia Ryan, and Michaela Burger combine their talents makes the show sparkle

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Fringe Review: Simply Brill: The Teens Who Stole 60’s Rock n Roll

Simply Brill is tight, well executed and slick — an absolute sonic treat

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Celebrate teen songwriters of 60s rock ‘n’ roll in Fringe show ‘Simply Brill’

Journey back to NYC's 1960s music scene with Adelaide's own award-winning performers in Fringe show, 'Simply Brill'.

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Cabaret Festival Review: Showqueen with Trevor Ashley

Trevor Ashley is simply the best - he is a showqueen through and through

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Cabaret Festival Review: It’s A Sin: Songs Of Love And Shame

Michael Griffiths takes a funny, yet vulnerable look at his past

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Fringe Review: Simply Brill: The Teens Who Stole Rock and Roll

A wonderful celebration of the artists who shaped rock ’n’ roll, by three of the best cabaret performers around.

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Theatre Review: Michael Griffiths Sings Peter Allen

Presented by: Markus Presents & Markus HamenceReviewed: 25 November, 2022 In the biographical musical, The Boy From Oz, following the life of Australian showbiz legend Peter Allen, there is a wonderful line: “You will tell your life like a story, and it will be a real adventure.” There is no question about it, Peter Allen’s […]

Interview: Michael Griffiths – Bringing A Touch Of Peter Allen to The Regal Theatre

You only need to play a few bars of Peter Allen’s I Still Call Australia Home and people will start humming or singing along to this classic by one of the best composers and performers that Australia has ever produced. From humble beginnings in Tenterfield, New South Wales, to performing at Radio City Music Hall in […]

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Theatre Review: Adelaide Cabaret Festival – The 2022 Variety Gala Season Programme Launch

Presented by Adelaide Cabaret Festival Reviewed 25 March 2022 From the moment Isaac Hannam, a proud Kaurna Aboriginal man, walked on stage in traditional indigenous dress and created magic with his digeridoo before welcoming the audience of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Gala audience to Country, in both Language and English, the Festival Theatre came to […]

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Fringe Review: Steven Oliver: Bigger and Blacker

"Faboriginal" performer with something to say.

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Fringe Review: Carlotta: I’m Not Dead Yet, Darlings!

At 78 years young, Carlotta still knows how to have the crowd eating out of her hand.

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Entertainment

Interview: Michael Griffiths – Being Regal In Adelaide With Cole Porter And Peter Allen

Ben Stefanoff interviews Adelaide's own Michael Griffiths about his show at the newly refurbished Regal Theatre

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Books & Literature

Audiobook Review: Doctor Who #246: The Hunting Ground, by Big Finish

An investigation of a murder leads not only to aliens hunting humans for sport, but to a wider conspiracy by the human government that allows it to happen.

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Adelaide Festival

Fringe Review: Lucky: Songs by Kylie

Michael Griffiths channels Kylie Minogue in this disco-fuelled cabaret.

Fringe Review: Livvy & Pete: The Songs of Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen

Helpmann award winner Michael Griffiths and acclaimed cabaret darling Amelia Ryan celebrate the songbooks of Aussie icons Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen for one night only. Backed by a three piece band featuring Adelaide's finest musicians, revisit all of their sing-a-long classics from Rio to Tenterfield, all the way to Xanadu and beyond.

Fringe Review: Amelia Ryan – The Breast Is Yet To Come

Amelia Ryan brings her tale of pregnancy to the stage in a funny assortment of songs, detailed anecdotes and witty banter. The show is a delightful production that is packed with many authentic and comedic moments.

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Cabaret Fringe Review: Scarred For Life

Last year, Josh Belperio was involved in a serious road accident on his bicycle, leaving him in hospital for a number of weeks with a ruptured spleen. Belperio used this traumatic event to create 'Scarred For Life', a one-man cabaret.

Cabaret Festival Review: Carlotta: Queen Of The Cross

Carlotta is a legend. Long-term show-girl at the famous Les Girls revue in Sydney, Carlotta has always been a figure-head for the queer community, and one of the earliest, and most famous, Australian trans-gender women.

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