by Franco Milazzo | Aug 22, 2014 | Reviews, Variety
The Double R Club is a curious creature. There’s a dark concept at its heart which is both expansive and invasive. It asks us to look out upon the stage and take in a variety of horrors and delights related in some artistic way to the works of auteur David Lynch,...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 14, 2014 | Reviews, Theatre
Who doesn’t like it loud and heavy every now and then? OperaUpClose’s La Traviata at the Soho Theatre is a vibrant burst of classical goodness in one of the city’s temples of cabaret. The same company popped the venue’s opera cherry back in...
by Laura Cress | Aug 13, 2014 | Cabaret, Reviews
There’s nothing new or startling about Celia Imrie’s one woman cabaret Laughing Matters at the St. James Studio, but that doesn’t seem to matter because it’s Celia Imrie. Even when the vocals are strained and the song choices a little predictable, she still manages to...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 13, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
With critics increasingly in the firing line (and in, one case, in hospital), how could I not spend my last show slot of the Fringe taking in this new musical comedy from Charlesworth and Holland Productions? At Edinburgh Fringe, where many shows (and more than a few...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 12, 2014 | Burlesque, Circus, Drag, Reviews, Theatre
Welcome to the wonderful world of Dixey. A fabulous fairy-tale where burlesque meets Walt Disney. Always light, always entertaining, and with the noblest unicorn I’ve ever seen. Dixey (named for the first ever male burlesquer Henry E Dixey) is a top class show,...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 11, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews, Spoken WOrd
Somewhere between a hiphop gig, theatre, and a TED talk, lies Baba Brinkman’s latest show, The Rap Guide To Religion. Never a direct dig at people for their beliefs, Brinkman is more fascinated with why we have them. He’s investigated the science behind religious...
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