by This Is Cabaret | Feb 22, 2016 | Previews
This week, Richmond’s Orange Tree theatre launches their new series of one-night events with a mixture of theatre, comedy, music and spoken word nights running from 24-27 February. Three nights in particular will highlight established cabaret talents. This...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 18, 2016 | Musical Comedy, Reviews
This Is Cabaret Rating: ★★★★★ Sometime in the late 1980s, Kenny Everett, Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana apparently walked into a South London gay bar. If you need to Google any of those names, there’s a good chance that Royal Vauxhall is not for you. Details of...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 17, 2016 | Cabaret, News
We may be only six weeks into 2016 but it looks like another established Soho cabaret space may be heading for the exit, at least in its current form. The Crazy Coqs Cabaret & Jazz Club is one of the few remaining rooms in London that has dedicated its bill...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 17, 2016 | Reviews
The Glory’s epic drag contest LIPSYNC1000 is back for another season. See below for our report on the first heat and images from the night. Last Wednesday saw Heat 1 of LIPSYNC1000 at The Glory, their flagship annual contest in which drag queens, kings and...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 12, 2016 | Features
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone for Red Bastard has announced his final London shows. There won’t be many tears shed at this news: those who have seen him in the flesh are more likely to recall the experience...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 11, 2016 | Burlesque, Features
Tomorrow night sees the launch of a burlesque show which promises to take the audience to a new level. To be precise, four new levels… The brainchild of the performing trio of Betsy Rose, Missy Fatale and Jolie Papillon, Gin House Burlesque sees an East End joint...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 11, 2016 | Reviews, Theatre
Ursula Martinez is not shy about exposing herself in the name of art. Her burlesque-cum-magic red hanky routine made her name over a decade ago and, when a performance of that act was unofficially uploaded to the internet, Martinez turned her feelings about the affair...
by Ed Gosling | Feb 10, 2016 | Circus, Reviews
Six performers struggle to hold on to a platform that spins, shakes and tilts them in experimental dance theatre He Who Falls at the Barbican as part of the London International Mime Festival The marketing for the show hints at the action unfolding through elements of...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 3, 2016 | Drag, Reviews
Self-described “action transvestite” Eddie Izzard has come a long way from his early days of performing on the cobbles of Covent Garden and his first gig at Balham’s Banana Cabaret. Three decades on, he has returned to the West End with Force Majeure:...
by Ed Gosling | Feb 2, 2016 | Reviews
Wild Worlds: V is a selection of tableaux, images and disjointed visual references. It is hyper-real, referential and takes it’s three and a half actors (Gabby Sellen appears as a disembodied mouth and head only) beyond human representations to become absurd...
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