by Candace Chan | Dec 8, 2014 | Reviews
Un Cas De Nostalgie is a story about one mime’s affairs with his imagined friends, from fantasies he carries in a tiny suitcase. Looking at Pi performing on stage it’s hard to imagine that the character was created only a year ago by actor Alexander Luttley. I was...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 8, 2014 | Reviews
The #SaveSoho campaign continues apace with more famous signatories adding their name to Tim Arnold’s open letter to London Mayor Boris Johnson. This weekend, Mitch Winehouse joined the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard and Idris Elba. The jazz...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 5, 2014 | Reviews
Now in its fourth year, the London Cabaret Awards has released the latest longlist of nominees. We’ve already discussed what we’ve found in some way good or in some way bad about the 2015 longlist. This isn’t the time or place to discuss the cons and cons of the...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 5, 2014 | Reviews
The sad closure of Madame Jojo’s last month may a silver lining to it if the events of the last seven days are anything to go by. On Saturday, the cabaret community gathered in numbers and (unusually) in daylight to mourn the iconic venue’s passing in...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 5, 2014 | Reviews
Medical history meets cabaret this week for a new show which takes places in one of London’s most atmospheric venues. Inside the creepy-as-all-hell Old Operating Theatre, the first episode of The Curiousity Cabaret brings together musicians, doctors (the useful...
by This Is Cabaret | Dec 4, 2014 | Drag, Reviews, Theatre
About three years ago, Stuart Saint penned a scabrously adult version of the Whittington saga for Leicester Square Theatre’s snug basement room where they have been milking his Dick ever since for a loyal catchment. This year, he announced in a pre-show introduction,...
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