Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Carlotta: The Party’s Over

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
The inspiration behind Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Australian icon, political activist, and living legend, Carlotta has led an extraordinary life. She hosted the legendary Les Girls in Kings Cross, was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia, and helped us launch the first ever Adelaide Cabaret Festival in…
Show Tunes Trevia

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Show Tunes Trevia

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Wild about Wicked? Crazy for Chicago? Phanatic for Phantom? Back by popular demand, for two sessions only, put your knowledge to the test alongside other diehard fans. Broadway buffs of all generations will delight in questions from the Golden Age through to modern hits, sprinkled with exclusive live performances. Led…
Rizo

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Rizo

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Our favourite genre-defying goddess of song returns to her second home, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, blending songs and stories, with her unmatched charisma in a new work, all about the ephemeral nature of ‘home’. From her childhood on an Oregon commune, to 15 years of traveling the globe (where home is…
Show Tunes Trevia

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Michelle Brasier – Average Bear

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Fresh from a sold-out off-Broadway run, beloved cabaret superstar Michelle Brasier (Thank God You're Here, Aunty Donna) brings her multi-award-winning show to Adelaide Cabaret Festival. It asks, what would you do if you found out you had less time on this planet, than ‘the average bear’? This all-singing, all-joking, all-heartbreaking…
Madame Martha’s Parisian Cabaret

Jens Radda: Madame Martha’s Parisian Cabaret

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
Step into the sensational underground Parisian cabaret where Vogue-posing, Fosse-popping, French-lace-drenched club kittens take you on a wild ride of intoxicating elegance. Following SOLD-OUT seasons across Australia, this electrifying explosion of Moulin Rouge glamour and Berlin grunge unfolds into a dazzling spectacle of music, dance, storytelling and drag. WINNER OF…
Show Tunes Trevia

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Marry Your Friends

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
A celebration of holy mate-rimony. It's often said your friends are your chosen family, so here’s your chance to put a ring on it! This wild, joyful, and (optionally) interactive event gives you the opportunity to say, ‘for richer or poorer, in sparkles and in sin’ and publicly proclaim your…
Tired Ass Showgirls

Hayes Theatre Co: Tired Ass Showgirls

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Ready for some BS in the Bathhouse? Undress the truth behind two of Australia’s hardest-working showgirls in this outrageous, raucous, and kinky cabaret comedy starring Seann Miley Moore and Brendan de la Hay. It’s a wet and wild ride of glitter, glam, and steamy stories straight from the s…auna. Expect…
Tired Ass Showgirls

Hayes Theatre Co: Tired Ass Showgirls

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Ready for some BS in the Bathhouse? Undress the truth behind two of Australia’s hardest-working showgirls in this outrageous, raucous, and kinky cabaret comedy starring Seann Miley Moore and Brendan de la Hay. It’s a wet and wild ride of glitter, glam, and steamy stories straight from the s…auna. Expect…
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…
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…
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…
Mackenzie

Hayes Theatre Co: Mackenzie

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
What if Macbeth was a tween actress on a huge D*sney channel show in 2006? And what if Lady Macbeth was her ruthless stage mum who believed that her baby deserves to have it ALL!!!!? For one night only – come see an early reading of this new play with…

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