Review: Up and Over It

Review: Up and Over It

After performing around the world and in award-winning ensembles like La Soirée, Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding take their talented Riverdance alumni selves to the Priceless London Wonderground for one night only. Up and Over It shake up traditional Irish dance with...
Review: Waiting for Stanley

Review: Waiting for Stanley

Hands up who talks to themselves sometimes? Or makes up scenarios in their heads? One-woman play Waiting for Stanley meanders through fantasies like the best daydreams do. Mixing song, puppetry and animation, Leela Bunce (AKA clown burlesquer Audacity Chutzpah) tells...
Review: Miss Hope Springs’ Sunday Soirée

Review: Miss Hope Springs’ Sunday Soirée

Glitter and loud show tunes can only go so far. Inaugurating new Piccadilly venue Crazy Coqs Cabaret with Sunday Soirée, a musical comedy residency conceived under the label of “sophisticamp”, Miss Hope Springs is living proof that drag can be swanky. The diva’s Las...
Review: The Ismena Collective: Sunday Cabaret

Review: The Ismena Collective: Sunday Cabaret

Cabaret: it’s not all about the tassels, the fire-breathing, the aerialism or the filthy humour, you know. The Ismena Collective are a soulful trio who wallow in relatively mellow musical mellifluence. We caught up with them at a recent show in the West...
Review: Sleaze

Review: Sleaze

If you’re ready to leave your superego at the door, you’re ready for Sleaze. Produced by freakish crooner Mat Fraser and burlesque dancer Trixie Malicious, the raunchy revue is a lowbrow cornucopia of sensational kicks. Acts can go from silly and tacky to downright...
Review: Apple Cart Festival: Cabaret Tent

Review: Apple Cart Festival: Cabaret Tent

Do cabaret and wellies go together? The second edition of The Apple Cart festival at Victoria Park held eight unflinching hours of non-stop mayhem in its cabaret tent, under non-stop rain. It was a muddy affair. Literally as well. Rising popular demand for variety is...