Hold on to your handcuffs - the Adelaide Cabaret Festival is finally here and the Cabaret criminals are on the run - headed straight for centre stage for this year's spectacular opening night Variety Gala.
It's that time of year again. Not only is everybody talking about awards season here in New York, but this is when the buzz starts about the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in Australia. It's one of the greatest gigs for an American performer (or any performer) to get, and has been getting stronger and stronger every year.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director Kate Ceberano has unveiled a stellar line up of not your usual suspects for her final year as Festival Director.
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival and David M. Hawkins are thrilled to announce that legendary singer- songwriter Melanie Safka is making her long awaited return to Australian shores this June with her People In The Front Row Tour.
Anthony Warlow, Australia's leading star of musical theatre and one of the world's most renowned stage performers, returns home this June with Tony-Award winner Faith Prince for an exclusive concert event titled Direct From Broadway. The Australian tour will premiere at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival on June 10, before going on to Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
The Lunchtime Concert at 1.10pm today 15 November will see the prize winners of this year's John Davis Music Awards. This popular concert will present the rising stars of the music world to the public, and see them rewarded with cash prizes for their proficiency.
Adelaide Festival Centre's CEO and Artistic Director, Douglas Gautier announced that the Artistic Director for Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2015 will be Barry Humphries. Barry Humphries needs no introduction: he is undoubtedly one of Australia's most loved comedians, satirists, artists, and authors. Best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, he is also a respected film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter.
Adelaide Festival Centre's CEO and Artistic Director, Douglas Gautier announced today that Artistic Director for Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2015 will be Barry Humphries.
The Lunchtime Concert at 1.10pm Friday 15 November will see the prize winners of this year's John Davis Music Awards. This popular concert will present the rising stars of the music world to the public, and see them rewarded with cash prizes for their proficiency.
Adelaide Festival Centre cements its position as one of the nation's leading cultural precincts as it unveils its 2014 program. It is the largest season ever at the Festival Centre, featuring two large-scale musicals, an exciting array of family entertainment and several groundbreaking collaborations with local companies. The program features some big names both nationally and internationally with Lior, Ludovico Einaudi, Helen Reddy, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Tan Dun among the line-up with a total of 233 shows, 77 events, 13 world premieres and 10 Australian premieres.
Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini and leading Australian theatre producer John Frost today announced the principal cast for Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic Broadway musical The King and I. Lisa McCune and Teddy Tahu Rhodes will co-star in the Tony Award-winning Australian production, which is being revived next year by the Gordon Frost Organisation and Opera Australia.
Adelaide Festival Centre's Cabaret Festival was honoured with the 'Sustained Contribution by an Organization or Group' award at South Australia's art and cultural awards, The Ruby Awards on Friday night.
The 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival is set to burn brightly on the final weekend, with performances that will dazzle from a bevy of incredible artists. Don't miss stunning cabaret chanteuse Lady Rizo, Aussie larrikinsBrian Cadd and Russell Morris, or Magosopher Sunny Leunig (he's a magician and a philosopher). Everyone's favourite hotpant-clad German, Hans, will strut the Banquet Room stage with his Lucky Bitches, while pseudo-Mexicans Puta Madre Brothers will tear up the Space Theatre. Kate Ceberano and Teddy Tahu Rhodes will cross the boundaries of classical and contemporary in Meet Me In The Middle, Tony Award winner Adam Guettel will treat audiences to his adventurous musical theatre tunes, and the incomparable songstress Idina Menzel will literally stop the show as she performs on the closing night of the Festival.
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival exploded with a compelling Variety Gala performance. The red carpet was overflowing with A-list celebrities and Cabaret superstars. Patrons partied well into the night and the Festival Centre venues were transformed into the glitz and glamour that is the cabaret realm.
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival exploded with a compelling Variety Gala performance. The red carpet was overflowing with A-list celebrities and Cabaret superstars. Patrons partied well into the night and the Festival Centre venues were transformed into the glitz and glamour that is the cabaret realm.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director Kate Ceberano has upped the ante at this year's Festival with not one, not two, not even three leading ladies making their Adelaide Cabaret Festival debut but four divas will reign supreme, including both the good and bad witches of Broadway smash hit Wicked, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel as well as Cassandra Wilson and Molly Ringwald.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director Kate Ceberano has upped the ante at this year's Festival with not one, not two, not even three leading ladies making their Adelaide Cabaret Festival debut but four divas will reign supreme, including both the good and bad witches of Broadway smash hit Wicked, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel as well as Cassandra Wilson and Molly Ringwald.
RUSSELL MORRIS is confirmed to join an already sensational line up for tomorrow night's Heart of St Kilda Concert at The Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival wishes to advise that Dan Koek's Adelaide Cabaret Festival show A Decade Down The Road that was scheduled to take place 21 - 22 June at Dunstan Playhouse has had to be cancelled.
Final acts have now been announced for the 2013 Heart of St Kilda Concert. In addition to the already stellar line-up, performing at this annual fundraiser, The Sacred Heart Mission have announced the following performers to complete a sensational line up for 2013.
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