Cabaret

First raft of shows from 2012 Edinburgh Fringe programme

Stewart Lee, Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert and more to appear at Fringe 2012

5 Mar 2012

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has revealed around 60 shows to take place at this year's event in August. The announcement comes weeks before the full line-up announcement on Thu 31 May. Comedy shows form the bulk of the latest show announcements…

Vive Le Cabaret

Fascinating Aida, Meow Meow and The Penny Dreadfuls head up quality cabaret package

27 Aug 2010

The explosion of cabaret on this year’s Festival circuit has meant that there are plenty of shows whose attitude to quality control is suspect. Thankfully Vive Le Cabaret is a wonderful exception to this. Fronted by the inimitable Des O'Connor – a…

Insider's insight: Canada’s cabaret comedy diva Sharron Matthews

The high – and low – notes of life on the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe

10 Aug 2011

You know my fave place to take a nap in Edinburgh? The hill right beside the Half Price Hut on Princes Street: it is soft, it is shaded by trees and if you place yourself properly, no one can see you sobbing into your phone on a million dollar phone…

Lounge Room Confabulators perform 2011 Fringe show in your home

Edinburgh Festival Fringe duo bring their cabaret show to your house

20 Jul 2011

Lounge Room Confabulators have hit on a wonderful idea in performing their show only in punters’ homes. List editor Jonny Ensall invites them to appraise his flat as a performance space

Liza Minnelli sings at Silver Clef Awards

TV Gossip

1 Jul 2011

Liza Minnelli burst into song during her acceptance speech at the Silver Clef Awards this afternoon (01.07.11). The singer-and-actress was honoured with the Icon prize at the annual ceremony which was held at the London Hilton hotel and after…

Merrill Grant: A Twentieth Century Fox

A cabaret homage to silver-screen greats

5 Aug 2010

With her Southern twang, strawberry-blonde hair, beaming smile and can-do attitude, Merrill Grant is the epitome of a 1930s belle. Which is just jim-dandy, given the cabaret act she’s bringing to this year’s Fringe. Inspired by her love of Shirley…

Meow Meow – Feline Intimate

The post modern showgirl delivers a unique type of cabaret

30 Jul 2010

With more purr than a panther, divine diva Meow Meow slinks back to this year’s Fringe with her unique brand of kamikaze cabaret kitsch. With sell-out shows around the world and the likes of David Bowie on her fan list, Meow Meow’s hypnotic performance…

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…

Interview: Lorraine Bowen celebrates material world in Polyester Fiesta!

Fabric-loving funny woman and pal of Billy Bragg hits Glasgay!

26 Oct 2011

You may not be aware but this year is the 70th anniversary of polyester. Yup, that’s right- the fabric responsible for some of the strangest, best and undeniably worst looks of the past half-decade is in its twilight years and musician/comedienne…

Apocalypse (A Glamorously Ugly Cabaret)

Catherine Gillard and Peter Clerke of Benchtours embark on a cabaret adventure

21 Sep 2011

Two years after they folded their lauded theatre company, benchtours, Catherine Gillard and Peter Clerke are touring with a new outfit: Occasional Cabaret. Apocalypse, their first full-length production, is developed from a two-week residency at…

Interview: Becc Sanderson - Eat, sleep and breathe

Australian cabaret singer on food, jodhpurs and corsets

8 Aug 2011

This Australian cabaret singer just did a six-month tour of people’s living rooms, performing songs about flowers (eg Radiohead’s ‘Lotus Flower’, Edith Piaf’s ‘La Vie En Rose’). She’s in Edinburgh now, and talking to us about jodhpurs and corsets...

Fascinating Aïda salute addition of cabaret section to 2011 Fringe

Edinburgh Fringe cabaret regulars salute recognition of artform

3 Aug 2011

Good God, there’s a cabaret section! I can’t begin to describe the delight that AT LAST, we misfits have been recognised and awarded a category of our own. Fascinating Aïda have been practising what the legendary New York producer Donald Smith calls…

Liberace: Live From Heaven

Edinburgh Festival show features piano man playing at the Pearly Gates

27 Jul 2011

In cabaret, what turns a concert into theatre is the hook that hangs the tunes together. Hanging squirming from this particular hook is Liberace (reincarnated in Bobby Crush) as he plays for his immortal soul. We join the sequined piano man after his…

Five cabaret shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2011

Meow Meow, Ali McGregor, Le Gateau Chocolat and Cabaret Whore among highlights

20 Jul 2011

Meow Meow. A firm Fringe favourite, this purrfectly glitzy performer brings her edgy post-feminist cabaret woes to the International Festival, as part of a much-anticipated work-in-progress. When you’re racking up over 6m hits on YouTube, chances are…

Paul Daniels: Hair Today Gone Tomorrow

2011 Edinburgh Fringe show from magician and entertainer

6 Jul 2011

The Hamiltons are well-established on the Fringe. Now Edinburgh braces itself to greet Neil and Christine’s rivals for the title of Britain’s Battiest, Tory-est, Publicity-Hungriest Couple. Step northwards, Paul Daniels and ‘the lovely’ (it’s…

I am a Camera

Largely forgotten adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin omits social decay

30 Nov 2010

(12) 100min (Park Circus) Made in 1955 this, the first major film adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, is largely forgotten, eclipsed by the multi award-winning stage and film musical Cabaret, also adapted from Isherwood’s tales…

iOTA from Smoke and Mirrors - Five questions

Slightly demented ringmaster in stripey socks

24 Aug 2010

5 words you’d use to describe your show Cerebral, moving, beautiful, intense, entertaining. 4 things you bring on tour Slippers, laptop, clothes, eczema cream. 3 shows you hope to see in Edinburgh Harlekin by Derevo, Jennifer Coolidge and…

Me! Me! Me!

Join the Vive Le Cabaret team for some shite white win

19 Aug 2010

This lunchtime cabaret-burlesque offering from Des O'Connor (not to be confused with a certain perma-tanned chat show host), Sarah-Louise Young (definitely not the first porn actress to earn more than $1m for a single film, even if she'd welcome the…

Smoke and Mirrors

Vaudevillian talent show in the Spiegeltent

19 Aug 2010

There are magic tricks in this cabaret show that might leave your brain short circuiting in an attempt to understand them. Even the next day. Just because they’re old school (the severed man in the box, pictured; the white doves conjured from up an…

House Cabaret

18 Aug 2010

Getting up close and personal has never been easier with a personalised performance from your house. Host your very own cabaret at your own venue with your own friends. For one night only, a small troupe of dedicated cabaret artists arrives at your…

Meow Meow - Feline Intimate

Cabaret will never be the same

12 Aug 2010

The former star of La Clique, who counts David Bowie among her fans, strips away the mystique of cabaret in this riotous postmodern deconstruction of her art. That’s literally the case when during the first few minutes of the show she’s interrupted by…

The Blue Lady Sings

A free cabaret-style show full of humour and skill

11 Aug 2010

Tricity Vogue is blue. Not depressed, literally painted blue. She sings the blues and other lyrically relevant songs. She is also a painting, although slightly unhinged and occasionally escaping her frame. Romping through a series of cabaret-style skits…

Mini Profile: Vive Le Cabaret

3 Aug 2010

What’s that then? That would be a nightly cabaret show, hosted by Des O’Connor. Seriously? Mister Take Your Pick? Des & Mel Des O’ Connor is coming to the Fringe? Actually, no. ‘It’s not the orange-faced one off the telly,’ points out Vive Le…

Cabaret Chordelia - Making a Song and Dance

Cabaret with a heart and mind

3 Aug 2010

Company Chordelia is known for its willingness to push the boundaries of modern dance and strike an emotional chord. Something which looks set to continue when they bring their latest performance Cabaret Chordelia to the Fringe. Described as an…

Fringe 2010 cabaret offerings are as colourful as ever

Smoke & Mirrors, Alan Cumming and The Crack

30 Jul 2010

From pared down to jazz-hands up, this year’s variety and cabaret offerings are as colourful as ever. Anna Millar meets the makers to find out why we just can’t get enough It’s a certain man who can shimmy from club door whore to straight-talking…