Queensland Cabaret Festival 24 March - 16 April 2023 Multiple venues including Judith Wright Arts Centre, Metro Arts, and the Old Museum Queensland Cabaret Festival 2023 (Cabfest ’23) asks you to take one step beyond, into the intimate sphere of the brilliant, the bright, the beautiful, and the bewildering. Theatre and music collide in this... Continue Reading →
Review: String: an odd evening with Tyrone and Lesley
Tyrone (David Megarrity) and Lesley (Samuel Vincent), photographed by Luke Monsour, Bulimba Studios Presented for one night only at Metro Arts as part of Queensland Cabaret Festival 2022, String: an odd evening with Tyrone and Lesley saw the titular double bass and ukulele duo perform songs from their upcoming seventh album, String, for the first... Continue Reading →
What’s On: String: an odd evening with Tyrone and Lesley
Image supplied String: an odd evening with Tyrone and Lesley 12 March 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Unwinding as a cross between a concert and slide night, Tyrone and Lesley will make your heartstrings ring as they string together 20 years of hits and premiere songs from their new recording String. Tyrone and... Continue Reading →
Review: Bigger & Blacker (La Boite Theatre, Sydney Opera House & W Lance Reynolds)
Photography by Morgan Roberts Steven Oliver’s whirlwind cabaret Bigger & Blacker is sexy, irreverent, and hysterical, as expected, but also deeply personal and moving as he sings about love, loss, and life. Photography by Morgan Roberts Steven Oliver cements himself further as a man of a million talents with this world premiere, a cabaret show... Continue Reading →
Review: Cabaret de Paris (Boyd Productions Pty Ltd)
Warmly hosted by the charismatic and multi-talented Marissa Burgess, longest-serving performer of the Moulin Rouge, Cabaret de Paris was an exciting and delighting Parisian-themed revue frothing with feathers and sequins, featuring dazzling costuming, intriguing illusions, and high-energy dancing. The dancing in this 90-minute production was, frankly, of a higher calibre than the Moulin Rouge dancers when... Continue Reading →