by Franco Milazzo | Mar 25, 2013 | Features
Whether you’re posh or poor, there’s something special for you this week. Alp Haydar’s Final Asylum Seekers Timed to perfection to chime with David Cameron’s latest attempt to shift the political focus onto migrants, Alp Haydar’s...
by Franco Milazzo | Mar 25, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Here’s a Jamaican singer interpreting the life and works of the Belgian iconoclast and father of the modern chanson, Jacques Brel. Is Peter Straker a great pretender? The first part of Peter Straker’s Brel focuses on telling Jamaican-born Straker’s...
by Franco Milazzo | Mar 22, 2013 | Circus, Reviews, Theatre
A Spaniard, a German and two Brits walk into a theatre. Whatever the joke is, it can’t be as funny as Spymonkey’s Cooped. Aitor Basauri Toby Parks Stefan Kreiss There is no doubt that Spymonkey are a national treasure. Given that the quartet includes a...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 24, 2013 | Variety
At University College London, students are being tempted away from their precious study by a new variety night. We speak to magician and producer Edward Hilsum. As old doors close, new ones open. Two popular cabaret venues, the Old Vic Tunnels and Marylebone Gardens,...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 20, 2013 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Musical Comedy
Gird those loins, London: New York’s Lady Rizo has arrived for a three-week stretch at the Soho Theatre. Even if she had the baggage allowance, this Grammy Award-winning singer still won’t be taking prisoners. Last summer, Lady Rizo won the inaugural Time...
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