ADELAIDE THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 128

Lady Rizo, as any of her fans will tell you, has a magnificent voice.

In the final night of Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2015, Artistic Director Barry Humphries took to the stage to announce he is handing over the role of Artistic Director to the creative talents of Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect, who will be co-Artistic Directors for the Festival in 2016 and 2017.

Harold Pinter, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, is famous for probing the darker sides of human emotion.

The standard of performances this year was as high as we have come to expect from these marvellous young artists.

If the Narelles hadn't existed, it would have been necessary to invent them.

I, for one, will be keeping an eye open in the near future, eager to see the next moves that these five will make.

Three guest soloists were invited by Alastair Kerr, musical director Panorama do Brasil.

Tex Perkins And The Dark Horses neatly and casually led their audience through some laid back and understated songs.

Harper Clements looks back over her forty years, working in the White House.

Frisky and Mannish are no strangers to Adelaide audiences, and their many fans turned out in force.

Rooted in Weimar era German Kabarett, with touches of Dadaism evident, My Vagabond Boat is about loss, enforced travel, and seeking new lives.

Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen, accompanied, or perhaps that should be aided and abetted, by their musical director, Daryl Wallis, at the piano are the Strange Bedfellows.

Every concert has new aspects, new joys, and new stories, and so did this one.

The Goodbye Girl, is the 1993 musical based on the film from 1977, with a book by Neil Simon, music by Marvin Hamlish, and lyrics by David Zippel

The performance spanned the decades, with so many landmark songs marking the way.

Midnight Soul captures the essence of underground soul clubs in an unforgettable debut.

CANDY CHAMBERS - 50 FOREVER! will play Friday 19 June, 9pm | Sunday 21 June, 7pm Nexus Arts Theatre, Cnr North Tce & Morphett St, Adelaide.

From the first note of Eagle Rock to the last cartwheel from Carnival of the Animals, the 2015 Come Out Children's Festival saw nine days of incredible fun, amazing entertainment, interactive learning and record-breaking success.

A MUSICAL spoof of popular horror shows is set to cast a spell with its all-singing, all-dancing mix of bizarre comedy this June.

The marvellous Opening Night Gala Performance, like the whole Cabaret Fringe, has found audiences continually increasing.

What is your reason to be pretty?  Our obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this perceptive and exhilarating comedy.

Get warm and fuzzy these winter school holidays with Windmill's new interactive teddy bear musical!

Jesus Christ Superstar will be presented by Scotch College Adelaide from July 29th to August 1st, 2015.

After a record-breaking sell-out season in Los Angeles and an off-Broadway run that had critics raving, smash hit US comedy It's Just Sex is set for its Australian premiere in what will be The Adelaide Repertory Theatre's raciest show ever staged.

The original production received critical acclaim but, by comparison, this production makes that one look rather tame.