Review: Terror 2012: All in the Mind

Review: Terror 2012: All in the Mind

Audience interaction and sadistic cruelty may sound like a sure recipe for criminal charges, especially in Soho. At theatre company The Sticking Place’s bracing hodgepodge of drama and cabaret, though, your physical integrity and enjoyment are both safe. Terror 2012:...
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: 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...
Videos: Alternative Eurovision Favourites

Videos: Alternative Eurovision Favourites

Call it musical Marmite or a kitsch collision of disco, nationalism, outré fashion and downright weirdness, there’s no doubt Eurovision has a special place in many people’s hearts. Alternative Eurovision, traditionally held on Eurovision Eve since 2010 has...