by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 8, 2014 | Editorial, Features, Reviews, Spoken WOrd
Edinburgh Festival isn’t all about the bustling energy of Fringe Central and the Royal Mile. Across Princes Street is the New Town district of parks and elegant architecture, and Hendrick’s Gin Parlour with their Carnival of Knowledge. I head over for some high-brow...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 7, 2014 | Reviews
Baby Lame had her quarter-hour of fame some time ago and wants more, more, more. In Baby Lame: Don’t Call It A Comeback, the former child star and mother/manager Moan Crawford take the audience along for a ride back into the limelight. And what a ride: muffins,...
by Sara Cluderay | Aug 7, 2014 | Reviews
A truly creative, artful and emotional piece of music theatre. Quebec’s iconoclastic L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres (LODHO) adapt the music of Kurt Weill for their return to Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, having...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 7, 2014 | Cabaret, Reviews, Spoken WOrd
So I did the festival thing. Met a guy, got chatting, found out he was in a show. I had a free spot in my schedule, and it looked interesting, so I thought I’d give it a go. This was one of those hit or miss moments… Thankfully, I landed on a hit. The...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 7, 2014 | Cabaret, Editorial, Features
“There’s always plenty to talk about when it comes to cabaret at the Fringe” This afternoon saw the launch of Edinburgh Fringe Festival‘s first Cabaret Chinwag – a kind of live chat show for anyone interested in the cabaret scene or, as...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 6, 2014 | Burlesque, Circus, Drag, Features, Previews
August is normally a quiet time for the London cabaret scene. Promoters call it “kipper month” and put regular shows on pause. Performers skedaddle north to Edinburgh for The Mother Of All Arts Festivals. Punters get a chance to avoid the usual dark rooms...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 4, 2014 | Cabaret, Features, Musical Comedy
As the saying goes, success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. The phenomenon that is the current cabaret scene has more fathers (and mothers and gender-transcending parents) than we have fingers but German composer Kurt Weill is possibly the grandaddy of them...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 1, 2014 | Circus, Editorial, Features
Without mentioning the August F-word (we have a separate article dedicated to Edinburgh, don’t worry) here are this month’s circus offerings… The Wonderground is still going strong on the South Bank, with another gala show from Cirque Du Cabaret on...
by Franco Milazzo | Jul 30, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews
Amongst the many icons of musical comedy, Tom Lehrer is a titan and the latest brave soul to interpret his work is solo musician Peter Gill with his show Politically Incorrect – The Songs Of Tom Lehrer at the Museum Of Comedy. To paraphrase Freddie Star, Gill is...
by David Lloyd-Davies | Jul 28, 2014 | Reviews
Having performed their well-received Julie Andrews tribute Julie Madly Deeply no less than 144 times to date, Roulston & Young have revived their 2012 show, Songs for Cynics, presumably to get some respite from the supercalifraglisticexpialidociousness of The...
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