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....
by Tricity Vogue | May 1, 2012 | Features
For their sci-fi themed revue, cabaret collective The Blue Stocking Society drafts photographer Gavin Mecaniques to send them into orbit. Every month the Blue Stocking Society collaborates with a photographer to conceive a themed photo for its monthly cabaret...
by Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor | May 1, 2012 | Reviews
If you were to follow in person the tragic story of Jay Gatsby in the fictional setting of West Egg, Long Island during Prohibition, wouldn’t you want to crash one of Gatsby’s parties? You’ve got one more chance to do it: legendary cabaret venue Wilton’s...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 30, 2012 | Features
Stand-up comedy may be all about outrage these days, but you won’t find a better destination to get your politically incorrect kicks than the variety arena. Last week had great treats in store for brave souls unafraid of a little edge in their entertainment, with a...
by Alita O'Ginn | Apr 27, 2012 | Features
For some time now, on my rounds of the great and the good of cabaret spectaculars, I have found that I dread the mention of burlesque. Not because I don’t like the art form: precisely because I love it. Will it be satirical? Will it be erotic? Or am I going to suffer...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Apr 27, 2012 | Reviews
“Let’s wake ’em up upstairs!” yells Holly Penfield as she leads a dancing mob through the plush surroundings of the Beaufort Bar. You’d never tell it’s been 60 years since the Savoy Hotel last hosted a cabaret show, judging from the enthusiasm and consummate talent in...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 27, 2012 | Photos, Variety
If you only sharpen one sense for White Mischief events, make sure it’s your sight. Update your spectacle prescription, don those contact lenses or just open those eyes wide because there’s no stinting on the spectacular either on stage or amongst the...
by Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor | Apr 26, 2012 | Reviews
If Handel on Christmas, Swan Lake On Ice and large orchestras is what comes to your mind when you think of the Royal Albert Hall, think again. Last weekend The Boom Boom Club took over the Elgar Room at the celebrated Victorian venue, host to some of the greatest...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Apr 26, 2012 | Reviews
Part of CircusFest, Professor Vanessa’s Wondershow fills the main space at the Roundhouse with a heartfelt homage to the British fairgrounds of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Developed by Dr. Vanessa Toulmin, director of the National Fairground Archive at the University of...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 26, 2012 | Previews, Variety
London has done without a good spiegeltent for too long. Underbelly is correcting that ghastly oversight with Priceless London Wonderground, a mammoth five-month festival housing some of the world’s finest cabaret, burlesque and circus talent under a 1920s-style...
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