Cabaret
Music, drama, comedy all wrapped into one and served up in a cosy environment like a pub or a restaurant. We don’t review enough Cabaret really, but you’ll find what we have reviewed here.
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Review: Only Bones, Assembly Roxy
A wibbly wobbly man does remarkable things with his body in a delightfully extraordinary performance that includes knee-synching to song… Weird maybe but truly breathtaking!
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Review: Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret, theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
Songs, history and wool make for a charming hour of performance.
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Review: The Magician’s Table, The Vaults
Atmospheric, immersive and mischievous, this close-up magic night charms but lacks variety. Strong performers and striking moments shine, though slow pacing leaves the finale feeling underwhelming.
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Review: Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime, Underbelly Bristo Square
Pun-fuelled queer opera burlesque with a fetish slant that is strictly for grownups, and will leave you laughing.
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Review: Midnight at the Never Get, Menier Chocolate Factory
A moving melodic tale of forbidden love, artistic struggle and the music that keeps love and hope alive
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Review: The Lady Boys of Bangkok – Full Moon, Sabai Pavilion, Shepherd’s Bush
A riot of rhinestones, pop anthems and camp chaos that dazzles and overwhelms in equal measure
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Review: AFTERDARK, Pride in Kingston
An unusual way to beat the heat while simultaneously supporting hyper-local Pride, rolling around the footings of a 12th-century Saxon bridge over the River Thames proves an unexpected treat.
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Review: Mrs Dalloway, Wilton’s Music Hall
Virginia Woolf meets disco, cabaret and stand-up in a daring but bewildering theatrical mix of genres.
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Review: Dead Doves and Lemons, Etcetera Theatre
Part lecture, part performance, pure passion – a must for the fan fiction curious, and for fan fiction devotees.
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Review: Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral, Soho Theatre
The title of Zoe Wohlfeld’s Dog Funeral promises exactly the kind of sweetly sinister paradox that the show delivers. It is a clown show about grief, an hour-long act of comic mourning that constantly balances the adorable against the disturbing.…