by Franco Milazzo | Mar 11, 2016 | Cabaret, Reviews
This Is Cabaret rating ★★★★☆ Having become a mother since her last visit to Soho Theatre, Lady Rizo has a brand new shebang and she’s here to tell us all about it with little in the way of sentiment or shyness: “it was the first time I’d had a penis inside me for...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 4, 2016 | Features, Musical Comedy, Reviews
The award-winning NY chanteuse Lady Rizo returns next week to the Soho Theatre stage for the UK debut of her new show Multiplied. This time around, she’s joined not just by a backing band but by her months-old son, Tennyson. Before she touched down in London, we spoke...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 2, 2016 | Features, News, Theatre
La Soirée, twice winner of an Olivier Award, has missed out on a nomination this year but the barnstorming burlesque musical Gypsy could clean up. Currently appearing Down Under, La Soirée won their second Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family last April....
by Katharine Kavanagh | Mar 2, 2016 | Circus, Features
The visiting Canadian giants of cirque nouveau may be leaving for another year, with the final show of Amaluna from Cirque Du Soleil on 6th, but the circus party is just beginning. Quite literally in fact, when Nearly There Yet’s family bonanza, The Party,...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 1, 2016 | Features
As Tom Lehrer sang in one of his homicidal ditties, “Spring is here, spring is here/Life is skittles and life is beer”. What he forgot to add (silly Tom!) is that life is also nights out and great events so here are our recommendations for the coming month. May The...
by Franco Milazzo | Mar 1, 2016 | Reviews
This Is Cabaret rating ★★★★☆ “You can tell you’re rocking the gig when you can hear the Piccadilly Line trains going by,” is just one of more printable pokes said by Nina Conti’s sidekick, Monk. Appearing with its owner in her latest outing In...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 29, 2016 | Cabaret, Features
The award-winning NY chanteuse Lady Rizo returns in March to the Soho Theatre stage for the UK debut of her new show Multiplied. This time around, she’s joined not just by a backing band but by her months-old son, Tennyson. Before she touched down in London, we spoke...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 25, 2016 | Features
This Friday, performance art collective Queens of the Underworld bring new show ZODIAC to Cafe Cairo in Stockwell. London is not short on regular high quality themed variety nights – here a Cabaret Roulette, there a Double R Club – and new show ZODIAC is...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Feb 25, 2016 | Circus, Editorial, Features
We all know London is great for bringing in big performance names and hiding out in tiny corners, but it can be easy to forget that some of the most exciting work is the stuff that tours the regions. Just like Tour de France, Cirque Tsuica begin their UK visit in...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 24, 2016 | Editorial, Features
Back in 2014, Soho Estates, owners of the block containing Madame Jojo’s, promised that the iconic burlesque joint would return in “a couple of years” following its premature closure; the place was shuttered after its licence was revoked due to a violent fracas but...
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