• Mitch Tambo

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Mitch Tambo

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    It’s 2005. Everyone’s favourite (fictional) game show ‘Race Against The Clock!’ has been on air for 40 years. As the anniversary episode draws closer, the former prize models are unceremoniously thrown together, but a long-buried rigging scandal might be just the thing to encourage them to step out of the…
    Dr Trevor Jones

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Dr Trevor Jones

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    King of the keys, maestro of musical theatre, and star of storytelling, Dr Trevor Jones’ late night piano bar is the stuff of cabaret legend. Taking requests and dishing out free drinks with the same magnificent appetite, his musical mastery knows no bounds. Surprise guest stars and spontaneous singalongs seem…
    There Is Nothing Like A Game!

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: There Is Nothing Like A Game!

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Beloved cabaret star and musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff (Thank God You’re Here, Spicks and Specks) brings you a late-night show like no other. Sure, there’ll be killer music and special guests, but finally you, the audience, will have a chance to be part of the late night chaos. Quizzes, games,…
    25 Years in Conversation

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: 25 Years in Conversation

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    As Marilyn Monroe said, “That’s a quarter of a century – makes a girl think!” Come contemplate the past, present, and future of cabaret with former Executive Producer and cabaret lover Alex Sinclair, as she chats with the lifeblood of past and present festivals. Celebrate how this festival has grown,…
    JUDY

    Little Triangle: JUDY

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    There’s a little Judy Garland in all of us. Six performers take the stage to showcase the magic and humour of a legend. In an intimate evening of raucous storytelling with reimagined songs, Little Triangle showcases its trademark wit and flair. From vaudeville to Hollywood, from the big stage to…
    Joanne Hartstone

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Joanne Hartstone

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    After being dumped 6 weeks before her wedding, award-winning South Australian theatre maker Joanne Hartstone turned her heartache into a step-by-step guide to recovering self-worth and resilience. Together with her newly single friends Annie Slade and Jess Beck they transformed the steps into a brilliant musical guide with exquisite three-part…
    Burlesque: The (parody) Dinner Show

    Talk and Tease Comedy Cabaret: Burlesque: The (parody) Dinner Show

    Level 1 Level 1/ 33 darlinghurst Rd, Potts Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    This is an immersive musical theatre and culinary experience unlike any other! Relish the theatrical whirlwind of acting, dancing, singing and storytelling as it unfolds around you from the comfort of your cabaret table...all while wining and dining on delicious modern Australian cuisine. This is a parody adaptation of the…
    Unapologetically Judith Owen

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Unapologetically Judith Owen

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Bodacious, seductive, and joyful, Judith Owen’s electrifying new show celebrates the oft-forgotten badass ladies of 1940s and 50s jazz and blues. With the help of her all-star band ‘The Gentleman Callers’, Owen sizzles with the essence of these risqué trailblazers. You’re in the hands of a master with this returning festival…
    Bobby Fox

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Bobby Fox

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    It's the only sketch comedy show set entirely in the year 1925! Old-school cool, sizzling with flair and charm, Bobby Fox (Jersey Boys, Hot Shoe Shuffle, Singin’ In The Rain, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls) brings his twenty-five years of stage panache to Adelaide Cabaret Festival, in a scintillating song and…
    Skank Sinatra

    Jens Radda: Skank Sinatra

    Qtopia Sydney 301 Forbes St, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Twice crowned Best Cabaret at Adelaide Fringe, nominated for Best Musical Theatre and Cabaret at Sydney Fringe, and with sold-out award-winning performances spanning Australia and Europe, the unstoppable Skank Sinatra storms into Qtopia Sydney from the 14th to 22nd of June, armed with powerhouse live vocals, sky-high glamour and a…
    Mama Alto – Transcendent

    Hayes Theatre Co: Mama Alto – Transcendent

    Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
    One of Australia’s finest cabaret artistes, the velvet-voiced Mama Alto returns to Sydney for her Hayes Theatre debut with “Mama Alto: Transcendent”- following sold-out, smash-hit performances at Joe’s Pub in New York, Perth International Cabaret Festival, and Melbourne Recital Centre. Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent…
    Sugar

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Sugar

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Theatrical, outrageous, silly and sexy, Tomáš Kantor’s award-winning debut is about Sugar - a radiantly-beautiful gender-fluid twink who discovers that there’s money to be made from ‘transactional relationships’ (though their primary source of information is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman). What could go wrong? Tomáš veritably shimmers with charisma, and…

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