by Vivacity Bliss | Nov 24, 2015 | Reviews
This Is Cabaret Rating: ★★★★★ Cabaret is theatre without walls and performance without rules – a place where anything can, and frequently does, happen. And in a scene filled with a show for every palate, few do it better than Brett Haylock’s La Soirée, playing...
by This Is Cabaret | Nov 19, 2015 | Drag, Features, Interview
Both in the guise of his award-winning alter ego Myra DuBois and as a writer, director and actor, Gareth Joyner has made an indelible mark on London’s cabaret scene. His acid-tongued drag queen’s bon mots may be pitiless and cutting but, truly, many of...
by Franco Milazzo | Nov 18, 2015 | Burlesque, Circus, Drag, Editorial, Features, Musical Comedy, Previews
This Sunday sees the launch of the 2016 All Nude Cabaret Calendar at Fontaine’s. As a taster of what to expect, photographer Sin Bozkurt has shared some priceless and revealing behind-the-scenes shots he took. You probably know at least one person who has survived,...
by Valentina Rock | Nov 17, 2015 | Reviews
This month, Italy’s cabaret and variety scene reaches a new level with the arrival of its first dedicated festival. The Milan Extraordinaire will see an international cast of vaudevillians perform in the European capital of fashion and design. An experienced...
by Valentina Rock | Nov 17, 2015 | Reviews
Questo mese, la scena cabaret e varietà italiana raggiunge un nuovo livello con l’arrivo del suo primo festival dedicato a questo genre . Il Milan Extraordinaire vedrà un cast internazionale di varietà vaudevilliani esibirsi nella capitale europea della moda e...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Nov 8, 2015 | Circus, Editorial, Features
So it seems there’s plenty of circus filling the capital this month! And there was I thinking I would have to fill up November’s guide with themed club nights and events, like the Cirque Noir evening at Shoreditch Trapeze Bar on 19th, the weekly Circo Du...
by This Is Cabaret | Oct 19, 2015 | Features
Halloween has joined Christmas as being less a single day and more an entire season. Let’s face it: for those of us who like to dress up, like to be scared, like to explore the darker corners of our souls or just like to party as if the very apocalypse is scheduled...
by This Is Cabaret | Oct 13, 2015 | Features, Magic
Opening tonight, one-man magic show Master Of The Macabre already scored a controversial note of notoriety when Transport for London refused to allow their official poster (above) to be shown on the Underground; whether the overt horror of a bloody eyeball is more...
by Franco Milazzo | Oct 5, 2015 | Reviews
Being good at more than one thing is always useful in life and never more so than when you’re a circus artiste. As well as being a dab hand at acrobalance, banquine, acrobatics, physical theatre and contemporary movement, Niamh O’Reilly adds some damn fine...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Oct 2, 2015 | Circus, Editorial, Features
This month is all about two things: Bristol‘s second biennial Circus City Festival, which takes place from 8-31st, and Halloween. Circus City includes over 50 performances in 14 different venues across Bristol, both indoors and out, as well as cabaret, cinema,...
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