by Sarah Jane O'Neill | Nov 26, 2013 | Cabaret, Features, Interview
Songbook cabaret has expanded hugely in London over the last decade. Fans can now hear their favourite chansons in such diverse surroundings as the basement of a Kings Road pizzaria, in a Leicester Square casino or under a new theatre in Victoria. One of the...
by Johnny Fox | Nov 26, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Russell Grant joined an impressive line-up for Ross Leadbeater’s celebration of the works of Ivor Novello. Of all the musical genres the Hippodrome Casino’s Matcham Room has showcased, who’d have thought that mid-century Ivor Novello would have been their...
by Johnny Fox | Nov 25, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Is Richard Fleeshman more than a soap opera hunk? Between winning Soapstar Superstar at the tender age of 16 and emerging to play the Patrick Swayze role in Ghost the Musical in London and on Broadway, Richard Fleeshman spent serious time in the gym with the result...
by Sarah Jane O'Neill | Oct 28, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Love songs, but not as you know them. Barb Jungr gives her own twist on love and loss in a fearless reinterpretation of some well-known classics. As a singer incapable of a hackneyed interpretation, Barb Jungr‘s gift to turn a lyric on its head is used to good...
by Lauren Ball | Oct 18, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
New York cabaret legend Joey Arias has travelled the world dealing in glamour, performing in palaces, backing up David Bowie on Saturday Night Live… and here he is today, in a basement in Soho. “But I like it,” he says, “that’s where the shit happens.”...
by Nicola Rainbow | Oct 4, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Bourgeois and Maurice bring their acerbic wit and fabulous costumes to the Soho Theatre. Downstairs at The Soho Theatre is a great venue for Georgeois Bourgeois and Maurice Maurice to perform their show, Sugartits. The tables are arranged in cosy cabaret seating,...
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