by This Is Cabaret | May 10, 2017 | Musical Comedy
Brexit, schmexit. This is London calling and it’s time to go all European again for just one weekend. Last year, the UK gave Europe the middle finger and mooned it for good measure. For the 48% who voted to stay and (we suspect) the even higher proportion that...
by This Is Cabaret | May 9, 2017 | Drag, Features
Controversialist. Anti-drag queen. Philosopher king. David Hoyle has been called all these things but who is he really? Now that we are neck-deep in drag queens on our screens, it is not unusual for the mainstream media to label any cross-dresser with a novel angle as...
by Franco Milazzo | May 7, 2017 | Circus, Reviews
Australian circus troupe Casus return to London with their latest show Driftwood, a no frills/many thrills study of human relationships and connection. Knee Deep, the 2012 predecessor to Driftwood, gave Casus an international standing and led to that award-winning...
by This Is Cabaret | May 5, 2017 | Musical Comedy
The Seventies were a great era for music and don’t let anyone tell you different. The antics and the music of the Beatles and the Stones were filling the newspapers and the stadiums. Rod Stewart and the Bay City Rollers were rocking the tartan look and no-one cared...
by This Is Cabaret | May 3, 2017 | Features
One of London’s finest cabaret companies returns with another epic show for the Underbelly festival. The South Bank will once again hear the purring of the London Cabaret Award-winning Black Cat Cabaret crew this year as, for the fourth consecutive year, they...
by Chris Dudley | Apr 25, 2017 | Drag, Reviews
8:00 PM at the Leicester Square Theatre and, with phones set to airplane mode and armrests down, it is time for veteran flight attendant-cum-comedienne Pam Ann back to cause mayhem on her 20th anniversary. The last two decades have seen Caroline Reid as her...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 22, 2017 | Interview
The times, they are a-changing. A year on from the Brexit referendum and nearly 100 days since Donald Trump became President, the political landscape in both the US and the UK is unrecognisable from where it was just twelve months ago. Who better to reflect on this...
by Candace Chan | Apr 21, 2017 | Circus
Last year Finland’s Race Horse Company brought their wild circus extravaganza Super Sunday to CircusFest 2016 at the Roundhouse. This year they return with not one but two shows, taking Super Sunday and Around – a circus show for children – on a UK tour...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 5, 2017 | Cabaret, Musical Comedy, Reviews
Two thoroughly nice chaps you’d safely take home to mother. Two Cambridge choral scholars and occasionally camp satirists at pains to remind you they’re heterosexual. One a bit shorter and blonder, one a bit like Robert Peston. Let’s first accentuate the positive and...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 1, 2017 | Burlesque, Drag, News
Soho Estates have announced that, when the scaffolding around the Madame Jojo’s venue eventually comes down next year, there will be “something very different”. John James, MD of Soho Estates and Paul Raymond’s son-in-law, exclusively filled us in on the...
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