Alan Cumming is a force of nature. He memorably, if briefly, brought comic book favourite Nightcrawler to life in big budget blockbuster (and still the best X film) X-Men 2. He’s also a fan fave in hit TV show The Good Wife, and you can binge him as a baddie in criminally underrated SBS show Briarpatch (go do it for free right now).
Then there’s his stage prowess, with meaty roles in the classics including Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth, plus Samuel Beckett's Endgame. He also found time to knock out best-selling albums and a novel in Tommy’s Tale. And the Scotsman’s nightlife hot spot Club Cumming goes off in his adopted home of New York, with his glitzy, ritzy, host-with-the-most act also landing him in the hot seat as artistic director of the 2021 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. The term “renaissance man” barely covers it.
After his solo show was rudely thrawrted by lockdowns, he has just dropped a run of rescheduled 2022 tour dates for Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age. You'll get to see him up close and personal when the solo show touches down at the Palais Theatre on Saturday, Jan 14.
After being postponed a year, this gig promises to be a bewitching night of showbiz, tunes and life-affirming laughs; an unashamed celebration of that most communal of pastimes: ageing. Age cannot wither his infinite variety. There’s simply no joyous sparkle quite like Cumming’s, so consider us itching to spend an unforgettable evening in his fine company once more.
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