by This Is Cabaret | Apr 8, 2015 | Features, Previews
If you go down to the Southbank today, you may be in for a big surprise. The big purple one has landed once more and we’re not talking Quality Street sweeties. The upside-down cow that houses the annual Udderbelly festival of opens this Thursday and, as well as...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 7, 2015 | Zingers
What should you be seeing this week? Here’s some shows we recommend checking out. Zinger Of The Week: Cabaret Roulette’s Nightmares (Wednesday) What scares you most? Tax returns? Spiders? That evil guy looking over your shoulder right now? (Only kidding....
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 3, 2015 | Previews
Two weeks after Neil Gaiman announced via Twitter that his wife Amanda Palmer was expecting their first child, the New Statesman has some news of their own. Palmer is well known for leading “Brechtian punk cabaret” group The Dresden Dolls. Oh, and for...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 1, 2015 | Reviews
Sometimes, music defies mathematics. One and one sometimes makes more than two and recent collaborations between comic singer Sarah-Louise Young and maestro Michael Roulston are a prime example of this. Individually, they have forged enviable careers. Roulston is the...
by Franco Milazzo | Mar 27, 2015 | Circus, News
The Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil has put his shares in the multi-billion pound business on the market. The asking price? A cool $2 billion. Before you go searching down the back of the sofa for loose change, be warned that this won’t buy you the whole...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 22, 2015 | Reviews
When it comes to makeup, there are no shortage of online tutorials, and it is a very lucrative business: 27-year-old Michelle Phan began uploading beauty tips onto Youtube in 2007 and, 350 videos and a billion views later, she nets over 5 million dollars per year....
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 20, 2015 | Previews
House of Blue have just moved to the city and they’re throwing a wild cabaret party. Yay and forsooth, this is verily the era of sophisticated debauchery with kinky ways to frolic every which way you look. The capital is not running short on places for one to...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 19, 2015 | Interview, Previews
Highly-rated cabaret award winning filthmongers The Ruby Darlings return to London this Friday with a one-off show. The perverse purveyors of everything that goes hump in the night are on their way to being one of the funniest acts around. Their lewd and...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 16, 2015 | Features
When arts charity IdeasTap announced last week the end of its seven year mission to support up and coming productions, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Since 2008, it has helped many artists to create or grow new work giving away around £2.3m in funding...
by This Is Cabaret | Mar 15, 2015 | Previews
In 1966, iconoclastic comedian Lenny Bruce said he had been arrested for saying nine particular words. Six years later, one of American standup genius George Carlin’s routines listed “seven words that can never be spoken on television”. Scroll...
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