
As the curtain was raised last night, cabaret returned to its home at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Shane Warne – The Musical has received a few careful nips and tucks before returning to the stage at this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Angels in America is an astonishing piece of theatre. I’m not sure how else to describe it. It is epic and sweeping and moving and hilarious and tragic and poetic and complex and unbelievably, unbelievably beautiful.

It’s hard not to get swept up by the grandiose scope of Bolshoi’s work or ignore the sheer beauty of their classicist aesthetics.

With the Bill Henson affair still resonating, and the closure, only this week, of another art gallery after accusations of child pornography, you might expect Fraught Outfit’s adaptation of On the Bodily Education of Young Girls to have something of a dangerous edge to it.

Ernest James Watts is a phenomenon. He's played with everyone from Adderley, to Zappa. Did I mention The Rolling Stones? He's toured with them, too.