by This Is Cabaret | Nov 6, 2014 | Reviews
He’s been acting since the mid-1990s but 2014 will go down as a watermark year for London-born Mat Fraser. The London-born sideshow performer, writer, director and activist can be seen on the latest season of American Horror Story, set in a 1950s freakshow. In a...
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 Franco Milazzo | Sep 2, 2013 | Features, Interview, Variety
Will the real Mat Fraser please stand up? In 2012, London saw two very different sides to the performer. In his own London show Sleaze as well as the Double R Club and White Mischief, audiences saw him him rock out with his cock out while, over at the Olympic Stadium...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 26, 2013 | News
This week sees as a series of fundraising events in honour of “the Marilyn Monroe of burlesque”, one of the founding legends of modern burlesque who passed away earlier this month. Modern burlesque would be a very different beast but for the likes of...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Sep 18, 2012 | Reviews
Wild entertainment beyond the reach of decency, virtue and licensing laws is what follows whenever Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz share the stage. Billing themselves as The Freak and the Showgirl, the two performers specialise in graphic antics that mock all notions...
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