by This Is Cabaret | Jun 2, 2017 | Drag, Musical Comedy, Reviews
The wooden Paradiso Speigeltent is back on the Southbank for the summer. Erected in its usual boozy enclave near Waterloo, it is all sparkly-mirrored retro glamour, promising 1920s-style Teutonic debauchery. Joe Black’s Meet Me at The Eldorado is a show that has...
by This Is Cabaret | May 31, 2017 | Burlesque, Circus, Drag
Briefs’ bandleader Fez Fanaana spills the beans on their new show. The all-male Australian comedy-slash-circus-slash-drag-slash-boylesque cabaret phenomenon known as Briefs returns to London next month. Once again, they will be taking over the Paradiso...
by Laurane Marchive | May 31, 2017 | Circus, Reviews
Catch Me (Attrape-Moi) This Is Cabaret rating Buy tickets As the sun starts shining on the city and semi-naked Londoners from all points of the compass flock to the parks, it’s that glorious time of the year again: summer. And with it, we see the return to the...
by Chris Dudley | May 30, 2017 | Reviews
This year’s Alternative Eurovision was as close as it have ever been. Our judges have tallied up the points and it looks like we have a winner – and it is not who the audience chose. The brainchild of theproducersUK with a helping hand from This Is...
by This Is Cabaret | May 30, 2017 | Features, Variety
The star of America’s Got Talent 2016 comes to the Garrick Theatre next week with a full-length show and you could be there courtesy of This Is Cabaret. Remember the days when mild-mannered men used to have to duck into phone booths to change into superheroes?...
by Franco Milazzo | May 26, 2017 | Reviews
According to the opinions of the most learned historians, Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns did apparently like the occasional alcoholic beverage and singsong. In total keeping with that, Dumfries’s Big Burns Supper is a rousing and, at times, raucous weekend-long...
by This Is Cabaret | May 21, 2017 | Cabaret, Features, Interview
Time to roll back the years as Ol’ Blue Eyes is back in town. Kind of. His fans call him Francis Albert or The Chairman Of The Board but most know him as Frank Sinatra, the singer-cum-actor who mingled with politicians, mobsters and movie stars when not lending...
by This Is Cabaret | May 19, 2017 | Circus, Interview
Having thrown off the old school trappings of ringmasters, animals and slapstick clowns, modern circus has grown in all kinds of thrilling directions. Driftwood, the latest production by Australian company Casus is a fine example of this, relying as it does on a small...
by Franco Milazzo | May 16, 2017 | Circus
Oh, Soho. The land of drag queens, drug fiends and sex shops comes under the microscope in this new circus extravaganza at the Peacock Theatre. SOHO is the brainchild of Stufish, arena production designers for A-listers Lady Gaga and Madonna so they know how to put on...
by Franco Milazzo | May 15, 2017 | Burlesque, Musical Comedy, Reviews
Now this is a rarity: a variety night with stand-up comics as a regular part of the bill. And that’s comics plural as regular Underbelly Festival event Friday Night Filth takes not one but two comedians away from their usual microphone stands and puts them in a tent...
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