by Ed Gosling | Nov 26, 2013 | Burlesque, Reviews
Can students from two competing schools ever come together to create something new? Can they shake off their diverse tutelage to perform on the same stage or will they always co-exist like star-crossed lovers who see each other across a darkened burlesque parlour...
by Valentina Rock | Nov 26, 2013 | Burlesque, Reviews, Variety
Lady Alex goes back to the future and takes her fabulous Wam Bam Belles and Boys with her. It’s “bad” but only in the Eighties’ sense. One of the most famous supperclubs in London is moving on and branching out. The Wam Bam Club has been holding down Café De...
by Sarah Jane O'Neill | Nov 26, 2013 | Cabaret, Features, Interview
Songbook cabaret has expanded hugely in London over the last decade. Fans can now hear their favourite chansons in such diverse surroundings as the basement of a Kings Road pizzaria, in a Leicester Square casino or under a new theatre in Victoria. One of the...
by Johnny Fox | Nov 26, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Russell Grant joined an impressive line-up for Ross Leadbeater’s celebration of the works of Ivor Novello. Of all the musical genres the Hippodrome Casino’s Matcham Room has showcased, who’d have thought that mid-century Ivor Novello would have been their...
by This Is Cabaret | Nov 26, 2013 | Features
For fans of all-killer, no-stocking filler shows, Christmas may have just come early. The fabulous Beyond the Cabaret night returns for a mash-up special that is not to be missed! Basically, if you’ve been anywhere in cabaret this year then you will have heard...
by Johnny Fox | Nov 25, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Is Richard Fleeshman more than a soap opera hunk? Between winning Soapstar Superstar at the tender age of 16 and emerging to play the Patrick Swayze role in Ghost the Musical in London and on Broadway, Richard Fleeshman spent serious time in the gym with the result...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Nov 22, 2013 | Circus, Features
Crying Out Loud are the UK’s top independent producers of contemporary circus, and pride themselves on championing extraordinary artists. They returned from this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival with both Total Theatre Awards for physical/visual performance –...
by Franco Milazzo | Nov 21, 2013 | Features
Thanks to the cream of London’s cabaret community, you many have literally nothing to look forward to all next year. Cancer is bad. Its evil. It kills people in non-Hollywood chic ways and in numbers that are almost beyond comprehension. In 2010 (the latest year...
by This Is Cabaret | Nov 20, 2013 | Reviews
Ben Walters’ stirring video collage combines silver screen treats with dramatic live performance but can film ever capture the soul of cabaret? Actress and scriptwriter Josie Urso investigates. When hip-hop poet Gil Scott Heron sang that the revolution would not be...
by This Is Cabaret | Nov 14, 2013 | Features, News
The tragic case of MI6 spy Gareth Williams has caught the public’s attention again this week. Police found his body padlocked inside a sports bag placed in a bath in his flat. After his death in 2010, the coroner has pointed the finger at third parties including...
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