by Chris Dudley | May 30, 2017 | Reviews
This year’s Alternative Eurovision was as close as it have ever been. Our judges have tallied up the points and it looks like we have a winner – and it is not who the audience chose. The brainchild of theproducersUK with a helping hand from This Is...
by Franco Milazzo | May 26, 2017 | Reviews
According to the opinions of the most learned historians, Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns did apparently like the occasional alcoholic beverage and singsong. In total keeping with that, Dumfries’s Big Burns Supper is a rousing and, at times, raucous weekend-long...
by Franco Milazzo | May 15, 2017 | Burlesque, Musical Comedy, Reviews
Now this is a rarity: a variety night with stand-up comics as a regular part of the bill. And that’s comics plural as regular Underbelly Festival event Friday Night Filth takes not one but two comedians away from their usual microphone stands and puts them in a tent...
by Franco Milazzo | May 7, 2017 | Circus, Reviews
Australian circus troupe Casus return to London with their latest show Driftwood, a no frills/many thrills study of human relationships and connection. Knee Deep, the 2012 predecessor to Driftwood, gave Casus an international standing and led to that award-winning...
by Chris Dudley | Apr 25, 2017 | Drag, Reviews
8:00 PM at the Leicester Square Theatre and, with phones set to airplane mode and armrests down, it is time for veteran flight attendant-cum-comedienne Pam Ann back to cause mayhem on her 20th anniversary. The last two decades have seen Caroline Reid as her...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 5, 2017 | Cabaret, Musical Comedy, Reviews
Two thoroughly nice chaps you’d safely take home to mother. Two Cambridge choral scholars and occasionally camp satirists at pains to remind you they’re heterosexual. One a bit shorter and blonder, one a bit like Robert Peston. Let’s first accentuate the positive and...
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