by Katharine Kavanagh | Mar 4, 2015 | Circus, Editorial, Features
Laydeeeeez and Gentlemen, get it while it’s hot: your one stop What’s On shop for all the circus you need in your life this month. Wherever you are this March there’s certain to be something circussy heading your way, with a healthy number of small,...
by Candace Chan | Mar 2, 2015 | Drag, Reviews, Theatre
“Who could you be if you lived without limitation?” This is the premise of Hellscreen, a play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm adapted from a Japanese horror story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa published in 1918. Set in contemporary London, the story follows artist Frank Holt (East...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 28, 2015 | Cabaret, Features
Leonard Nimoy passed away yesterday aged 83. The veteran star of the small and the silver screen also dabbled in other arts not least photography and singing. He may be ridiculed for some of his musical choices but he had a fine deep voice which often brought out the...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 25, 2015 | Drag, Features, Video
Poor David Cameron. When his MPs aren’t flocking to UKIP, being getting caught out by the media or promoting astrology as a way to treat patients, the Prime Minister is preparing for an election his party is unlikely to win outright. Thankfully, help may be at...
by Johnny Fox | Feb 25, 2015 | Reviews
It’s not often you get to spend the night with someone who danced with Fred Astaire, drank with Dean Martin and did who-knows-what with Elvis. It’s been eleven years since Liliane Montevecchi played London. Then she enthralled Pizza on the Park, now it’s Crazy Coqs...
by This Is Cabaret | Feb 25, 2015 | Features, Previews
The full line-up of the inaugural Birmingham Cabaret Festival has been released. From 14-30 May, the Old Joint Stock public house will host to a selection of London favourites as well as a variety of local talents. Musical comedy stalwarts EastEnd Cabaret will...
by Franco Milazzo | Feb 23, 2015 | Reviews
Being called an East End drag legend may sound like an epitaph but Jonny Woo is currently making like Conchita Wurst and rising like a phoenix. He hosted regular variety circus show Boom & Bang at The Roundhouse, he has a new band, helped open a new cabaret venue...
by Johnny Fox | Feb 23, 2015 | Cabaret
If I’ve been to one compilation evening where a range of theatrical types repackage show tunes on the theme of “love, sex and relationships”, I’ve been to a hundred but the credentials of the two killer-diller headliners now trading as The Desperate Divas...
by Ed Gosling | Feb 19, 2015 | Circus, Reviews
Canadian troupe Cirque Eloize has touched down in London for ten days ahead of a UK tour. One of the forerunners of Cirque Nouveau, they’ve been blending high level circus with narrative and storytelling since 1993. The last show I saw at the Peacock theatre...
by Johnny Fox | Feb 19, 2015 | Cabaret, Reviews
Anne Reid’s father was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, reporting from India, Iran and Lebanon. She says she likes journalists, as long as they don’t write anything nasty about her. Spending an evening in her company at Crazy Coqs it would be...
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