by This Is Cabaret | Jan 8, 2016 | Features
We like our January nights like we like our coffee: short, dark and hot. The year has only just started but there’s some lively entertainment this month which will warm up any chilly evening. Truly, if you can’t find something in this list worth spanking the last of...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Jan 6, 2016 | Circus, Editorial, Features
The new year’s here (in case you missed that) and, with it, a raft of circus embedded within the London International Mime Festival programme. First up (11-23rd) is the latest show from British pioneers Ockham’s Razor; Tipping Point, features several...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Jan 4, 2016 | Circus, Editorial, Features
Between the end of the Christmas season and the start of summer, the annual Circus Reunion is a chance for showmen and women to gather under one permanent roof and catch up on the year’s events. We spoke to Frazer Watson, organiser of this year’s bash, to...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 25, 2015 | Features
Last Christmas, we gave you our heart*. This Christmas, we have something else in mind. Put down that mince pie, switch off the TV for a few minutes and watch this. Yes, now. We’ll keep this short as you probably have plenty to do like, well, you know, finishing that...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 24, 2015 | Editorial, Features
“Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, “treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 11, 2015 | Features
Hi guys. Virgin Xtravaganzah here. What. A. Fucking. Year. This. Has. Been! 2015 was, generally speaking, totes amazeballs. It started for me with the end of 2014, which might sound a little early, but I’m going somewhere with this. You see, it was about then...
by Johnny Fox | Dec 7, 2015 | Cabaret, Reviews
She’s at it again. Not content with stripping the bones and sinews of Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley, the ‘Silent Witness’ of the cabaret circuit Barb Jungr now forensically dissects and reconstructs the Beatles. It has become a cliché to say that ‘she...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Dec 5, 2015 | Circus, Editorial, Features
My Christmas season begins tonight with the Mary Bijou Cabaret and Social Club‘s Christmas Bauble in Cardiff, but wherever you are this December, there are plenty of circus sparkles to put you in the festive spirit. The Hyde Park Winter Wonderland is still going...
by Franco Milazzo | Nov 25, 2015 | Drag, Features
Next month, alt-drag producer and performer Scottee can be seen in Camp (As Christmas). He’ll be joined by a crew featuring Ginger Johnson who describes here her journey from the North-East to the capital. When I first moved to London in 2010, I took a job...
by This Is Cabaret | Nov 24, 2015 | Drag, Features, Interview
It’s an open secret that some this year’s finest cabaret acts have been seen not in supperclubs, speakeasies or variety nights but at the talent contests and festivals that have sprung up around the capital and beyond. Tronicat La Miez’s gloriously...
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