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Review: Joe Black’s Meet Me At The Eldorado

Review: Joe Black’s Meet Me At The Eldorado

by This Is Cabaret | Jun 2, 2017 | Drag, Musical Comedy, Reviews

The wooden Paradiso Speigeltent is back on the Southbank for the summer. Erected in its usual boozy enclave near Waterloo, it is all sparkly-mirrored retro glamour, promising 1920s-style Teutonic debauchery. Joe Black’s Meet Me at The Eldorado is a show that has...
Review: Friday Night Filth, Underbelly Festival

Review: Friday Night Filth, Underbelly Festival

by Franco Milazzo | May 15, 2017 | Burlesque, Musical Comedy, Reviews

Now this is a rarity: a variety night with stand-up comics as a regular part of the bill. And that’s comics plural as regular Underbelly Festival event Friday Night Filth takes not one but two comedians away from their usual microphone stands and puts them in a tent...
Why Alternative Eurovision Is Better Than The Real Thing

Why Alternative Eurovision Is Better Than The Real Thing

by This Is Cabaret | May 10, 2017 | Musical Comedy

Brexit, schmexit. This is London calling and it’s time to go all European again for just one weekend. Last year, the UK gave Europe the middle finger and mooned it for good measure. For the 48% who voted to stay and (we suspect) the even higher proportion that...
The Return Of Richard Carpenter: Matthew Floyd Jones Brings Us Close To Seventies Icon

The Return Of Richard Carpenter: Matthew Floyd Jones Brings Us Close To Seventies Icon

by This Is Cabaret | May 5, 2017 | Musical Comedy

The Seventies were a great era for music and don’t let anyone tell you different. The antics and the music of the Beatles and the Stones were filling the newspapers and the stadiums. Rod Stewart and the Bay City Rollers were rocking the tartan look and no-one cared...
Boys From The Posh Stuff: Bounder and Cad

Boys From The Posh Stuff: Bounder and Cad

by Johnny Fox | Apr 5, 2017 | Cabaret, Musical Comedy, Reviews

Two thoroughly nice chaps you’d safely take home to mother. Two Cambridge choral scholars and occasionally camp satirists at pains to remind you they’re heterosexual. One a bit shorter and blonder, one a bit like Robert Peston. Let’s first accentuate the positive and...
Critics’ Choice: Five Cabaret Shows You Really Should See This Week

Critics’ Choice: Five Cabaret Shows You Really Should See This Week

by This Is Cabaret | Oct 31, 2016 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Drag, Features, Musical Comedy

Remember, remember, November is always full of great cabaret. Forget those loud, empty bangs overhead: for real fireworks, check out these five shows.   TUESDAY: Meow Meow, Royal Festival Hall The Australian siren dazzled this summer at the Brighton Fringe and in the...
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