by This Is Cabaret | Oct 31, 2016 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Drag, Features, Musical Comedy
Remember, remember, November is always full of great cabaret. Forget those loud, empty bangs overhead: for real fireworks, check out these five shows. TUESDAY: Meow Meow, Royal Festival Hall The Australian siren dazzled this summer at the Brighton Fringe and in the...
by Laura Cress | Oct 27, 2016 | Reviews, Spoken WOrd
What does music taste like? What is its scent? How does it feel on your skin? With their new production Tapestries, BitterSuite seek to provide the answers and much more in a uniquely engaging and hugely uplifting performance, that will change the way you hear –...
by Laura Cress | Oct 6, 2016 | Cabaret
Four years ago, tucked away in a chic little French brasserie in the centre of London, a new cabaret venue was born. The Crazy Coqs, with the help of its exquisite art deco setting, brought “classical cabaret” back to London. From Tony award-winning Frances Ruffelle...
by Franco Milazzo | Oct 6, 2016 | Reviews
Doing a show about marriage is a brave move. All the statistics point to people getting hitched later in life than ever before; more and more are avoiding it altogether. Two in five marriages end in divorce while a third don’t make it past the 20th anniversary. In The...
by This Is Cabaret | Sep 27, 2016 | Burlesque, Features, Previews
Organised by Agent Burlieque and Burlesque Bible, tomorrow night sees the first Burlesque Awards with ten star acts scheduled to perform. The votes have been gathered and counted, the trophies have been polished and on Wednesday, the Burlesque Awards (hosted by Reuben...
by This Is Cabaret | Sep 27, 2016 | Features
Next month sees the launch of the 2017 All Nude Cabaret Charity Calendar in aid of Cabaret vs Cancer and, once again, we have exclusive images from behind the scenes. For the last four years, the fundraising campaign spearheaded by Rose Thorne has put together an...
by Franco Milazzo | Sep 26, 2016 | Cabaret, Reviews
Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston’s latest collaboration sees them give La Poule Plombée her first full show – and, still, the “frumpy pigeon” is as comically unhappy as ever. There’s no pleasing some people. The French mistress of misery was first seen as a...
by Candace Chan | Sep 22, 2016 | Drag, Theatre
Taking inspiration from Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, David Hoyle’s latest show is a satiric lecture performance aiming to deconstruct education through the medium of education. Ms Hoyle’s character is loving and charismatic like the...
by This Is Cabaret | Sep 15, 2016 | Burlesque, Circus
An all-male Aussie ‘burlesque show with balls’, Briefs bounds energetically back into London’s Southbank’s quirky London Wonderground. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s gender experimenting plays drew gasps at the Globe and bear pits and brothels lined the...
by This Is Cabaret | Sep 14, 2016 | Circus, Features
Touring the UK for the first time Attached is a fast-paced, energetic and funny circus performance from Swedish company Magmanus. As this impressively skillful duo exhibit their acrobatic agility, it quickly becomes clear that they are hopelessly connected. When one...
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