by C.J. Lazaretti | Aug 13, 2012 | Features
Live music in burlesque is on the rise, but still an exception. C.J. Lazaretti talks to some of the artists behind the latest live-backed revues and probes the effects of recorded backing tracks beyond the obvious budget issues. The next time someone tells you CDs...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Aug 12, 2012 | Reviews
After 14 years on and off the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Bongo Club Cabaret can rightfully claim the “pioneer” epithet. It may have missed the first inclusion of the genre as a separate category in the festival’s programme last year, but it was here long before...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 1, 2012 | Features
Welcome to This Is Cabaret’s own Fringe central. Check this page regularly to keep up with the only media coverage dedicated exclusively to cabaret, burlesque and circus in the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. You can come back to this list at any time by...
by This Is Cabaret | Jul 23, 2012 | Features
How long does it take to clean up after a giant purple cow? After the end of the E4 Udderbelly Festival, the inflatable bovine at the Southbank Centre vanished without a trace in mere 11 days, to make way for the new additions to the Priceless London Wonderground....
by C.J. Lazaretti | Jul 21, 2012 | Reviews
Every new season of Boom Boom Club is a milestone in British cabaret. Since it abandoned a weekly format in 2011 to reinvent itself as a franchise of self-contained performance events, the seminal variety show has experimented with the genre in unusual venues like the...
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