Cabaret

Lady Carol – Malady

Comedy singer returns to festival after sell-out shows in Sydney

30 Jul 2010

With her dark vocals and unimaginable covers this intoxicating comedy singer returns to the festival following a sell-out show in Sydney. Expect possibly some of the most enjoyable renditions of Love is a Battlefield and Running up that Hill and you…

Cabaret set to take Edinburgh Fringe 2010 by storm

28 Jul 2010

Variety show fever is sweeping the capital for the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe and cabaret is back with a vengeance. Steering its way back into mainstream entertainment culture by popular demand, the all-singing, all-dancing performances on offer this year…

Camille O’Sullivan: The Dark Angel

23 Aug 2009

For every fly-by-night that comes to Edinburgh in August one month and picks up the awards, TV contracts, films scripts and buggers off to their newly purchased castle on a tax haven Caribbean island. Others do some sweating for their rep and Camille…

Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen

Diabolically good comic gypsy cabaret

16 Aug 2009

The gypsy cabaret troupe returns to the Fringe once more to assault audiences with their riotous mix of songs, storytelling and sinful behaviour. This year, the Balkan-styled, Australia-based five-piece have pitched up to promote their new album, Dead…

Bongo Club Cabaret

Seduction, celebration and imagination

16 Aug 2009

Beginning with American roots folk straight from the Bible Belt (though without the morals), the Bongo Club has created a cabaret of seduction, celebration and imagination. Thoughts that variety is dead are dispelled by ingenious performances from the…

5 Questions: Martha and Arthur

30 Jul 2009

Cabaret duo, Martha & Arthur prepare to make you howl with laughter while they hoof their hearts out in A Lot of Nerve. But first they answer our five questions

Burlescape

25 Jun 2009

What is it about burlesque just now? There’s a new club or class popping up every day, hundreds of dancers queuing up for slots at nights like Club Noir and Rockaburley, and now here comes the Glasgow Cabaret Festival, a week-long festival all over the…

High Tease and Vegas!

25 Jun 2009

Not only is this glamorous team-up night a celebration of American Independence Day, there’s also another kind of emancipation going on. After eight years running a regular monthly event at Glasgow’s Ferry, the Edinburgh-based VEGAS! crowd have decided…

Life as a cabaret

28 May 2009

Calum Ritchie investigates the low-budget, cross-genre revolution happening on Glasgow and Edinburgh’s cultural scenes That’s not to suggest these nights are homogenous, because each…

Antony and the Johnsons

28 May 2009

An unlikely Mercury Music Prize winner back in 2005, Antony Hegarty and his Johnsons play singularly arresting music that draws on classical and cabaret, making for a strange amalgam of otherworldly experimental sounds and chamber music. Playhouse…

Cabaret Baby

2 Apr 2009

CABARET It’s a brave man who throws off the shackles of his classical traditions and embraces a bit of Dolly Parton. But Stephen Deazley is just the man for the job. Inspired by a suitably colourful youth basking in the joys of late 70s, early 80s…

Cabaret

2 Apr 2009

MUSICAL Kander and Ebb’s signature musical beautifully harnesses source material by Christopher Isherwood to recreate the exhilarating debauchery of Weimar Berlin, shot through with punchy reminders of the Nazis’ rise to power. This award-winning…

Preview 2009 - Theatre

8 Jan 2009

Recession? What recession? If you believe the old adage that entertainment thrives in hard times (proven by the rise of the cinema in the austere 30s) surely theatre, which offers escape into alternative worlds, is the ideal diversion from dreary…

Liza Minnelli

5 Jun 2008

SHOWBIZ LEGEND SECC, Glasgow, Fri 6 Jun There aren’t many people for whom the word ‘legend’ is applicable, but Liza Minnelli is certainly one of them. Tales of marital woe and substance abuse may have dogged her personal life, but Minnelli’s career…

Neue Liebe - live music review

5 Jun 2008

CABARET The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Sun 25 May ‘This is much better than playing with dreary indie bands,’ says Andrew Eaton, singer with headliners Swimmer One, and then he quickly checks himself in case there are any dreary indie bands in…

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

13 Mar 2008

If there was an award to be won on last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea won it. As well as a Fringe First, Herald Angel and Total Theatre Award, the show earned a trip to New York courtesy of the Carol Tambor Award and a…

Neue Liebe

17 Jan 2008

Pulling together a host of well-meaning, spiffily-clad and shamelessly talented Edinburgh bohemian types in the brand new surroundings of the Voodoo Rooms, Neue Liebe, performance-poetess-about-town JL Williams’ (pictured, right) cabaret evening, is…

Cash in Christ

1 Aug 2007

Prominent US evangelist Oral Roberts announced to a television audience that, unless he raised $8 million by a given date, God would kill him. Viewers duly donated $9.1 million, and just a few months ago, Brazilian husband and wife televangelist team…

Futurology

Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow

27 Mar 2007

CABARET Cabaret isn’t the first form of theatre you’d associate with Suspect Culture. For over a decade this outfit have produced among the most cerebral work seen in this country. But times are changing, and besides, artistic director Graham Eatough…

The Ministry of Burlesque presents High Tease

29 Jan 2007

CABARET Burlesque, a word used with some specificity by this six-year-old company, is a quite separate form from music hall or vaudeville although it has many traditions in common. Granted, many of the turns are the same - comics, singing, dancing…