by Belinda Liversedge | Jul 2, 2017 | Burlesque, Reviews
Deep inside the newly-renamed Underbelly Festival, burlesque extravaganza Between The Sheets invites us to dim the lights and slip into bed for their fourth run at the Paradiso Spiegeltent. Producer and MC Polly Rae has kept the show largely as it was last year but...
by Chris Dudley | Jul 1, 2017 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
Australian drag cabaret star Trevor Ashley makes a welcome return to the Paradiso Spiegeltent with his celebrated tribute to Liza Minnelli. Appearing on stage with seven-piece band, we’re treated to Ashley’s uncanny impersonation of Liza, complete with...
by Franco Milazzo | Jun 23, 2017 | Magic, Reviews
Talk about an appearing act: Penn & Teller return to the UK but is this their last visit? Penn & Teller have become modern bywords for world-class magic and it is easy to see why. They have been working together since the 1970s and have scaled the heights of...
by This Is Cabaret | Jun 12, 2017 | Reviews, Theatre
Working: The Musical charts the various ways we experience work and does so with great skill, authenticity and, surprisingly given its revue format, at times with real emotional punch. Based on a book of interviews with working men and women in the early 1970s by US...
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...
by Laurane Marchive | May 31, 2017 | Circus, Reviews
Catch Me (Attrape-Moi) This Is Cabaret rating Buy tickets As the sun starts shining on the city and semi-naked Londoners from all points of the compass flock to the parks, it’s that glorious time of the year again: summer. And with it, we see the return to the...
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