by Franco Milazzo | Aug 14, 2014 | Reviews, Theatre
Who doesn’t like it loud and heavy every now and then? OperaUpClose’s La Traviata at the Soho Theatre is a vibrant burst of classical goodness in one of the city’s temples of cabaret. The same company popped the venue’s opera cherry back in...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 11, 2014 | Reviews
You there at the back! Sit up and listen. Ursula Martinez’s My Stories, Your Emails isn’t the kind of lecture you want to fall asleep in, trust me. This doyenne of performance art is not an easy one to ignore in the flesh. While some of her ilk create abstract works...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 8, 2014 | News
Located in the north-eastern fringes of London, Walthamstow is noteworthy on two fronts. It has the longest street market in Europe, a kilometre stretch of stalls described by Wikipedia as “downmarket and unique“. It is also the end of the line for the...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 7, 2014 | Reviews
Baby Lame had her quarter-hour of fame some time ago and wants more, more, more. In Baby Lame: Don’t Call It A Comeback, the former child star and mother/manager Moan Crawford take the audience along for a ride back into the limelight. And what a ride: muffins,...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 4, 2014 | Cabaret, Features, Musical Comedy
As the saying goes, success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. The phenomenon that is the current cabaret scene has more fathers (and mothers and gender-transcending parents) than we have fingers but German composer Kurt Weill is possibly the grandaddy of them...
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