Billed as a 'brand new family musical' it is quite difficult to pin down which family members are actually being targeted.

This was an extremely tight production. A well written romp through the many musical loves of comedian Lenny Henry.

Here on the stage for two shows only was a true work of Australian cabaret – an unplugged walk through what looks to be a much bigger production that traces the many faceted life of actor/singer Jack Charles.

As this year's Adelaide Cabaret Festival starts to wrap up it was nothing short of a complete delight to be entertained by a legend of the American Broadway stage Ben Vereen.

In Songs for Nobodies the actor plays both the 'nobody' and the 'somebody' in such a seamless way it becomes hypnotic.

The Variety Gala is an appetizer before the grand buffet on offer now until the 23rd of June and this year it’s quite an eclectic band of gypsies descending upon Adelaide.

What started as conversations between the playwright and director Chris Drummond about 'strange loops' developed into a determination to build a production in the vein of Christoph Marthaler.

Director Adam Cook has carefully respected the various nuances in the play and worked at creating a production that looks and sounds authentic to the finest detail.

The life of any artist can't easily be condensed into two hours of stage time in a theatre, without a certain amount of significant material being passed over.

Involuntary presented by One Point 618 and Adelaide Festival Centre is a curiously bland patchwork of ideas that shoots itself in the foot by not living up to some remarkably arresting promotional material.