by This Is Cabaret | Feb 28, 2013 | Circus, Features, Previews
All dressed up and wondering where to go? Let us point you to a quirky quartet of upcoming upbeat and offbeat options where you can slip into something different and enjoy some quality variety off the cabaret scene’s beaten paths. Rumpus Vol. 14: 20,000 Leagues Under...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 5, 2013 | Circus, Features, Musical Comedy, Previews, Variety
Very few venues resemble the results of dropping LSD in the middle of a GCSE biology lesson. With that in mind, we welcome back the giant upside-down purple cow that houses the Udderbelly Festival. It returns in April to its now-traditional grazing pasture on the...
by Franco Milazzo | Dec 15, 2012 | Features, Previews
In 1973, Liza Minnelli brought her classic show Liza With a Z to the Royal Festival Hall. Four messy divorces, two new hips and almost four decades later, she returns in 2013 for her only London date of the year. There are few performers who cast longer shadows over...
by This Is Cabaret | Nov 14, 2012 | Features, Previews, Video
While it may seem to some that The X Factor treats its entrants as little more than musical marionettes, there are a pair of puppets that will never bend a knee to Gary Barlow and his fellow judges. Bunraku pair Boris & Sergey are the potty-mouthed stars of their...
by Franco Milazzo | Jul 23, 2012 | Interview, Previews
Catia Carico has programmed shows at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern since 2008, the year before the venue hosted the first edition of Hot August Fringe festival. Franco Milazzo speaks to the producer amidst preparations for the latest edition of the event. What’s...
by This Is Cabaret | May 2, 2012 | Previews
A new show. A new venue. A new UK invasion, by the international impresarios behind the Slipper Room in New York City and Chinatown in Shanghai. It’s impossible not to build up high expectations for When Worlds Collide, the newest revue to hit London’s East End....
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