Review: Boom Boom Club: Prospero’s Tavern

Review: Boom Boom Club: Prospero’s Tavern

Every new season of Boom Boom Club is a milestone in British cabaret. Since it abandoned a weekly format in 2011 to reinvent itself as a franchise of self-contained performance events, the seminal variety show has experimented with the genre in unusual venues like the...
Review: Saturday Night at The Spiegeltent

Review: Saturday Night at The Spiegeltent

Many of the best artists in London cabaret and burlesque are taking turns at the busy big top by the Southbank Centre. If you’re equally busy and can’t catch them individually, or could use a sample before you choose your tickets, Saturday Night at The Spiegeltent is...

Review: Saturday Night at The Spiegeltent

Many of the best artists in London cabaret and burlesque are taking turns at the busy big top by the Southbank Centre. If you’re equally busy and can’t catch them individually, or could use a sample before you choose your tickets, Saturday Night at The Spiegeltent is...
The Week in Cabaret: Arts and Crafts

The Week in Cabaret: Arts and Crafts

“If there is one thing I know about burlesque and cabaret performers is we hoard,” says Ivy Paige. After amassing a wealth of circus signs, props, wigs and costumes, some of which she’s never worn, the singer and compère organised the first edition of Ivy...