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  • Gonzales Piano Talk Show

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    Four-week run by prankster hip hopper turned classical minimalist pianist and crooner Gonzales, with a different guest each week

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  • Cheese 'n' Crackers

    Thu Nov 26, The Basement

    The return of this great variety talent show with host Sarah-Louise Young. Expect music, magic, burlesque, comedy and plenty of cringing

  • Myra's Marvellous Musicals

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    Until Sun Dec 13, The Retro Bar

    A performative quiz about the arts. It's not just musicals - anything from Marcel Marceau to Corrie could come up

Tonight

  • Duckie

    Sat Nov 7, The RVT

    Cabaret that's so out there, it's coming back again. Amy Lamé hosts this arty party playgroup for thirtysomething homos, their friends and fans, with...

  • Gay Bingo

    Sat Nov 7, ICA

    Bonfire Night special for the eyes-down flamers, paying fiery tribute to DJ deluxe Jon Sizzle. Jonny Woo hosts with carcrash drag performances. Big fun.

  • The LipSinkers

    Sat Nov 7, Bistrotheque

    This East End gaggle of twisted trannies are back. Our favourite Mister Sisters - Spanky, Lisa Lee, Ryan Styles, John Sizzle, Blanche Du Bois and guest -...

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This week

  • The Lost Supper

    Sun Nov 8, Pizza On The Park

    Paul L. Martin's high-calibre showcase series returns with dark prince of cabaret Dusty Limits. Expect Weill, Waits, Bowie and perhaps a preview of Dusty's...

  • Bar Wotever

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    Tue Nov 10, The RVT

    The queer performance club night welcomes the talented Michael Twaits, previewing material from his forthcoming full-length show, 'Icons'.

  • Cabaret Carousel

    Wed Nov 11, The Book Club (previously Home Bar)

    Jonny Woo hosts a storytelling masterclass, encouraging seasoned and novice performers to try out their yarns.

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  • Time Out at the Opera

    Massive glitter ball explosion of thanks to everyone who took part in Time Out's take-over of the Royal Opera House's Deloitte Ignite Festival over the weekend. It culminated with Un Ballo in Mascara, Jonny Woo's celebration of all thing gender-bending, cross-dressing, cabaret and chaotic.

    Jonny Woo debuted his hilarious collaboration with Bourgeois & Maurice – 'Don't Google Me, Mother' – and the Crush Room saw the likes of Dusty Limits, La John Joseph in that paper dress, the ever-brilliant Scottee, a green-painted Dickie Beau, Fancy Chance doing a stunning new routine, and many, many others.

    Highlight of the night was the vogue ball, though – quick thank you to all of the judges, including Beth Ditto, Gareth Pugh, Mary Portas and my co-judge, Andrew Logan. Horse Meat Disco's gorgeous boys kept the hall full to bursting, too.

    Biggest thank you? To everyone who came down. It was occasionally chaotic, often surreal but surely one of the...

  • Edinburgh review: Patti Plinko And Her Boy

    Who Patti Plinko and Her Boy

    What Addictive, bourbon-soaked theatrical cabaret.

    Why The small stage, as it is, is decked out like someone’s back yard after one hell of a party. On bamboo screens hang fairy lights, a religious portrait of Mary and faded black and white photographs, a Mexican mask is propped against the wall, liquor bottles sit by instruments. The lights are down, there are three people seemingly passed out in crumpled heaps as the audience gingerly steps over and past. And then it begins. Patti might be a wisp of a thing, but she sings like a hell cat – all purrs, growls and deranged screams – and looks like wild amounts of fun on a night out: her hair’s tousled, her tea dress is coupled with battered cherry Doc boots. ‘Her boy’, as the anonymous guitar player is called, is barefoot in a black car mechanic’s jumpsuit and mirrored sunglasses and the receiver of many adoring looks; new for 2009 and also in black is the violin...

  • Edinburgh review: Sweeney Todd

    Who Sweeney Todd: His Life, Times and Execution!

    What Gothic retelling of the life, times and execution of the famous eighteenth-century barber with puppets, song and plenty of slapstick tomfoolery.

    Why There are several musical interludes as well as a shadowy gothic aesthetic in this reinvention of ‘Sweeney Todd’, the Georgian barber of Fleet Street who sliced and diced his customers before handing their bodies over to Mrs Lovett and her pies, but that’s where any Tim Burton comparisons should start and end. Sweeney Todd, in Finger In The Pie’s retelling, is less of a man bent on a corpse-building rampage and something of a gentle and shy clown. Gin-drinking puppets – both shadow and marionette – feature prominently and with skill (the company have worked with Jim Henson puppeteers, and it shows), comic turns and even a bit of juggling: an strong performance by a promising young company.  

    Until Aug 31 at Gilded Balloon, 2.15pm, and then at...

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