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Artist Submissions And Class Of Cabaret Applications Now Open For Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2025

Artist submissions and Class of Cabaret applications are now open for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2025, inviting performers to showcase their talents at this renowned event.

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Comes to Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival will present Shakespeare’s fan favorite comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Directed by Matt Pfeiffer, the production runs June 26 to July 7 on the Main Stage at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of DeSales University.

Cabaret Star Reuben Kaye Awarded The 2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Icon Award

Mischievous and comedic cabaret star Reuben Kaye was announced as the recipient of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2024 Icon Award at The 2024 Variety Gala, presented in front of a full house at Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre tonight.

Full Cast Set For the RSC'S THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

The full cast has been announced for the RSC's forthcoming production of Shakespeare's suburban comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor.  Directed by Blanche McIntyre, the show runs in repertoire in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between 5 June – 7 September.  

THE MERRY WIVES Comes to Whitley Bay in July

After a sold-out performance at this year’s Wandsworth Arts Fringe in London, a witty new show based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor will be showing at Laurel’s in Whitley Bay for two nights only.

Review: HOOTENANNY �" ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2023 at Banquet Room, Adelaide Festival Centre

Mark Nadler left everybody wanting more, much more.

Review: THE 2023 VARIETY GALA �" ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2023 at Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre

Once again, the Gala was a wonderful night out.

Matt Gilbertson-Hans Awarded The 2023 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Icon Award

Beloved South Australian entertainer, Matt Gilbertson – Hans, “International superstar” has been announced as the recipient of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2023 Icon Award at The Variety Gala, presented in front of a full house at the Festival Theatre tonight. 

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Comes to ActorsNET

ActorsNET finishes its 26th season with a 1960s sitcom reboot of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, a bright and breezy comedy of sexual jealousy and overbearing egos set against a landscape of summer resort leisure and the “dirty dancing” music trend. 

UNCLE VANYA Comes to Theatre Works in June

This June, multi-award-winning Director Bronwen Coleman (Dirt, Naomi, Ignis) and the Anthropocene Play Company (APC) premiere an exciting new translation of Anton Chekhov's renowned classic, Uncle Vanya.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival Announces 2023 Program

Adelaide Cabaret Festival has gone all out, with the biggest and brightest performers announced today, as Adelaide’s favourite winter festival gets set to sizzle when it celebrates Adelaide Festival Centre’s 50th Anniversary in June.

Mick Harvey, J.P. Shilo, and Michaela Berger Join Line-up For Spring Seasonal Sessions in November

The Seasonal Sessions program returns for two nights on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November with some of the country's most celebrated names in music and cabaret at the historic Woodville Town Hall.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022 Finished On a High Note And Looks Forward To Next Year

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022 finished on a high last night with a sold-out performance of Tina Arena’s headline show, Songs My Mother Taught Me, and will soon announce a special program for 2023, alongside Adelaide Festival Centre’s 50th Anniversary.

Tina Arena's Spectacular Adelaide Cabaret Festival Kicks Off Tonight!

Get ready to kick up your heels and warm up this winter with a sparkling program of the best and boldest performers at the 22nd Adelaide Cabaret Festival, starting tonight at Adelaide Festival Centre.

Adelaide Festival Centre Sparkles With Activity During Winter 2022

With plenty on offer to warm the heart, mind and soul, Adelaide Festival Centre will present two of its beloved annual festivals, a stately range of exhibitions, and two infectiously joyous musicals as part of its Winter 2022 season. 

Libby O'Donovan Honoured With The 2022 Cabaret Icon Award

Adelaide cabaret artist, Libby O'Donovan has been presented with the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022 Icon Award at The Variety Gala on the Festival Theatre stage tonight.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival Program Unveiled Today

Get ready to warm up this June with a sizzling program of the best and boldest performers announced today, curated by international star and Australian icon Tina Arena AM.

Patrick Livesey Returns To Holden Street With NAOMI For 2022 Fringe

This Adelaide Fringe, Frank Ford award-winner Patrick Livesey (The Boy, George, Gone Girls, DIRT) returns with an original solo performance, Naomi, about the life of their late mum who died by suicide in 2015. In this world premiere directed by Bronwen Coleman (DIRT), Livesey uses verbatim interviews as the basis for this gripping, at times heartbreaking and surprisingly funny new play about love and mental illness.

Holden Street Theatres to Stage VENUS IN FUR

Frank Ford and Adelaide Critic’s Circle award-winner Wil King (DIRT, ABC/Netflix’s Why Are You Like This) returns for Adelaide Fringe 2022; this time opposite rising star Bridget Gao-Hollitt (Joseph Gordon Levitt’s Superpumped). The pair will star in David Ive’s Tony award-winning Venus in Fur… a witty, barreling examination of sexual politics in the workplace. This smash hit text will be directed by Green Room award-nominee Daniel Lammin.

First Three Episodes of BEDLAM: THE SERIES to Premiere on BEDLAM TV in November

Written by Eric Tucker & Musa Gurnis and directed by Eric Tucker, “BEDLAM: The Series” twists Shakespearean characters and plots we know and love – King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice – into a new story of love, deceit, betrayal, and revenge