Having been fortunate enough to see the vast majority of headline shows that Underbelly's programmed in the 11 years since they set up shop on the Southbank, I'm confident that …
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Having been fortunate enough to see the vast majority of headline shows that Underbelly's programmed in the 11 years since they set up shop on the Southbank, I'm confident that …
Acutely pitched and incomprehensibly energetic, Hot Gay Time Machine's high camp soiree into Toby Marlow and Zak Ghazi-Torbati's sexual awakenings is intelligent, unadulteratedly obnoxious and sublimely silly. Lucy Moss, Toby Marlow …
Piecing together the drug-fuelled ups and downs of one of music's most loved enigmas, Vika Bull raises the roof of the Cadogan Hall with an electrifying performance in At Last: The …
With a tour de force of a singing trio, witty lyrics and a fabulous shoe collection, Liberty Rides Forth! may not have the production values of a West End musical - …
Anna Nicholson has true talent for improvisation and facilitating audience participation - which is where the fast-paced, energetic and enjoyable Woman of the Year really holds its own. The Space is a …
Anne Steele’s vocals dazzle in Welcome to the Big Top, but I’m unconvinced this seasoned performer’s overly-sentimental patter entirely translates for British cabaret audiences. For us Brits at least, New York-based …
Hamilton meets Spice Girls meets Madame Jojo's - in Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow's electric gig-theatre piece about refusing to be reduced, or erased, to a mnemonic. Six starts with an unequivocal …
Black Cat: Bohemia sets Underbelly's Spiegeltent alight with an impressive international line-up, an endearing and charismatic MC and plenty of real searing flames - but one too many moments feel genuinely …
Taking over from SOAP as Underbelly Southbank's second Spiegeltent headliner of the summer, Circa's Peepshow is regrettably culpable of the same sins: imaginative ideas seem oddly infrequent, sequences often feel underehearsed and …
The next headliner in Underbelly Southbank's 2018 season, SOAP, splashes about but rarely makes waves in its endeavour to be the raunchy circus smash of the summer. Talent feels underused …
Described as the 'grammy-nominated godfathers of alternative cabaret', The Tiger Lillies take us on an eclectic journey into all things dissident and dark in Devil's Fairground - but at moments withdraw from …
It's about as twee and anodyne as shows come - but A Spoonful of Sherman is well-produced, energetically performed and entirely successful at bringing its (elderly) target audience to their …
Love Happens Here: an LGBTQI Cabaret showcases some genuinely great voices, but suffers from a lack of the nudge-nudge-wink-wink delivery characteristic of both the cabaret genre and the most successful am-dram …
Ad Libido's superb structuring, relentless creativity and unmitigated rigour ensures it's as didactic, thought-provoking and genuinely affirming as one could hope for. Fran Bushe’s quasi-autobiographical Ad Libido adeptly deconstructs a taboo which …
The Children Are Stinky duo are tremendously competent hand balancers, jugglers and acrobats. But - far more importantly - they also know exactly how to make kids gasp, cheer and …