by This Is Cabaret | Apr 9, 2015 | Drag, Previews
Influencing everybody from RuPaul and Madonna down, Paris Is Burning is a drag documentary that celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Those who didn’t catch it the first time around can now see it on the big screen for free. Released in 1990, Paris Is...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Sep 25, 2014 | Circus, Features, Previews, Reviews, Video
This year’s Raindance Film Festival is now underway, and we’ve had a sneak preview of the circus documentary Grazing The Sky that’s showing next weekend… Directed and produced by Mexican film-maker Horacio Alcalá, Grazing The Sky intercepts the...
by This Is Cabaret | Jan 7, 2014 | Features, Variety, Video
Bravely poking a lens into the dark undergrowth of the New York cabaret scene, Exposed is a film which reveals the thoughts and fears of some of its most prominent performers. Tigger! by Don Spiro Bambi Lobster Girl by Ande Whyland Julie Atlas Muz by Ande Whyland Mat...
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 Franco Milazzo | Dec 15, 2012 | Features, Previews
In 1973, Liza Minnelli brought her classic show Liza With a Z to the Royal Festival Hall. Four messy divorces, two new hips and almost four decades later, she returns in 2013 for her only London date of the year. There are few performers who cast longer shadows over...
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