In Pictures: Prospero’s Tavern

In Pictures: Prospero’s Tavern

Boom Boom Club is one of the most innovative cabaret collectives in the UK. Prospero’s Tavern, their latest production, recreates the plot of Shakespeare’s The Tempest to make Prospero the owner of a mythical pub with live entertainment, mixing theatre an...
Review: Between the Sheets

Review: Between the Sheets

There’s more than 24-hour gambling to the newly re-opened Hippodrome Casino. Starring Miss Polly Rae, Between the Sheets is the only burlesque revue in the historical venue’s inaugural calendar of cabaret events. Judging from its spectacular routines full of exuberant...
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...