by Franco Milazzo | May 12, 2013 | Reviews
Yes, yes – illustrious parent, the love affair with the much older famous man, her own film. All this we know. But is ventriloquist Nina Conti actually any good? Ventriloquist Nina Conti brings latest show Dolly Mixtures to the Soho Theatre with her eclectic...
by Johnny Fox | May 11, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
As a gay man whose formative clubbing years were in the glamour-obsessed 80s, drag ought to be right up my (Danny La) Rue, “dear”, but it just isn’t. Never was. Even now I can’t see the irony in tipping up to a Soho bar in colourful wig, eyeliner and...
by Franco Milazzo | May 9, 2013 | Reviews, Variety
A classic case of casting pearl before swine, Baroque Cabaret has its high points but sinks in a morass of apathy and messy pacing. A truly decadent affair, The Playboy Club’s Baroque Cabaret allows its high roller members to let their hair down and relax with...
by Sasha Garwood | May 8, 2013 | Musical Comedy, Reviews
Angel-faced, nightingale-voiced, devil-witted cabaret king Dusty Limits’s Darkling is a glorious and fleetingly self-deprecatory celebration of melancholy and mortality. Songs from artists as diverse as Amanda Palmer, Nick Cave, Kurt Weill and Noel Coward are...
by Sarah Jane O'Neill | May 2, 2013 | Reviews, Variety
Get your freak on with Time Out Live’s Friday Night Freakshow, a potent cocktail of late night variety hosted by the divinely decadent EastEnd Cabaret. If the weather isn’t convincing you that we’re on the cusp of summer, the annual appearance of an upside down...
by Nicola Rainbow | May 2, 2013 | Burlesque, Reviews
Christopher Jones, Victoria Hardie and Brian Matthews are certainly fans of the art of the tease. Together they have put together Burlesque Beauty, a book of their top burlesque performers and the impact these women have had on the current British burlesque scene....
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