by Franco Milazzo | Jul 30, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews
Amongst the many icons of musical comedy, Tom Lehrer is a titan and the latest brave soul to interpret his work is solo musician Peter Gill with his show Politically Incorrect – The Songs Of Tom Lehrer at the Museum Of Comedy. To paraphrase Freddie Star, Gill is...
by David Lloyd-Davies | Jul 14, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews
Bourgeois & Maurice have had a successful seven years as one of the cabaret scene’s most well-regarded acts. What better way to celebrate their longevity than having a birthday party in London Wonderground’s Spiegeltent? Having steeped in the queue for seats –...
by David Lloyd-Davies | Jul 1, 2014 | Drag, Musical Comedy, Reviews
Spit or Soileau? Possibly as a result of Channel 4’s longrunning Eurotrash and its normalisation of bizarre sexuality and London’s burgeoning performance art scene, it seems that we’re becoming a difficult crowd to shock. In the last two months alone, I’ve seen a...
by This Is Cabaret | Jun 5, 2014 | Features, Musical Comedy
There is much mystery around musical comedy duo Die Roten Punkte. Are they really brother and sister or is there more going than that? Is all that slap subsidised by a special EU grant? And are their Berlin accents for real – then again what do real Berliners...
by Sara Cluderay | May 25, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews
A masterclass in the art of post-modern cabaret from the Australian-born chanteuse. The self-styled post-post-modern diva Meow Meow’s unique brand of “kamikaze cabaret” and performance art exotica returns to the Southbank, following last year’s concert with the London...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 31, 2014 | Features, Musical Comedy
Consummate host and all-round mensch Lenny Beige has been entertaining the good folk of London since Moses was in shorts. Or maybe it was long trousers. Either way, Beige is one of the closest things the capital has to a flesh-and-blood cabaret institution. Next...
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