Cabaret

The Pale Blue Door - the pop-up restaurant housed in set designer Tony Hornecker's handmade ramshackle-fairytale-dollhouse-madhouse home in Dalston and staffed by alt-drag waitresses - was one of this year's hidden delights. Fab news, then, that...

Champagne Charlies hosts this New York-styled open mic session for cabaret, musical and jazz singers. Bring along your sheet music and some support. Info: open@cellardoor.biz

Our favourite mister sisters - Lisa Lee, Spanky, Ryan Styles and John Sizzle - give a festive twist to their already twisted tranny stylings. Expect Christmas standards, some glitzy razzle-dazzle and a special guest or two as the raucous nu-drag...

The Tassel Club presents their new weekly Saturday night show at the brand new Proud Cabaret venue, a supper club which promises to blend a speakeasy vibe with hot cabaret, circus and vaudeville performances.

Festive lunchtime edition of the burlesque, blues and magic show.

A show oozing with quality. Get down early for the free burlesque taster class (6pm and 6.30pm), dinner is available (not included in ticket price, pre-book tables via website). Acts include hostess Lady Alex and the Wam Bam Belles, magic from...

The Barbettes host this be-feathered cabaret of glitz and kitsch. Popular with big birthdays and hen nights, Miss Terri comperes a long line-up of performers, singers and saucy strippers.

Famously discovered at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion, this sensational swing duo Kitty La Roar and Nick Of Time work everything from Nirvana to 'Big Spender' in a toe-tapping style.,

The London Magician, Vixen DeVille and the Marquis of Gray welcome you to a sinister, seductive seasonal celebration.

Dreamily decadent Dusty Limits compères this superior cabaret night, now relocated to Thursdays and an East End venue after, its promoters claim, being 'driven from the Borough of Camden by the pitchfork-wielding puritans'. A sensuous mix of...

Jonny Woo brings his tongue-twisting, yarn-spinning abilities to bear on this monthly night at which storytellers and spoken-word artists show their wares. Tonight he offers his takes on 'Georgette' and 'Last Exit to Brooklyn, with an appearance...

Frisky and Mannish, Barbara Nice (aka Corrie's Janice Connolly) and Radio 4's Nick Mohammed take part in this fundraiser for St Mungo's homeless charity. Plus circus and West End acts.

Ukulele maestro Des O'Connor hosts a night of naughty fun starring the Wam Bam Belles' Lola LaBelle, Ruby Deshabille and Banbury Cross.

Tonight the ultra-laidback and welcoming queer art night presents New York acrobat and spoken-word artist YaliniDream and Manchester hip-hop act Ajah with a full band and full set. Plus collection for World AIDS Day.

From November 19 to December 20, a derelict office block is home to 'Tis the Season to be Jolly... As F**k, a festive fringe festival bringing together London favourites and Edinburgh discoverie. The glamorous girls of the Kitten Club are in...

Created by Sandi Toksvig with Facsinating Aida's Dillie Keane and the Southbank's Jude Kelly, this Christmas family cabaret show offers a playful take on 'A Christmas Carol', with time out for special turns and panto-style singalongs. Ronnie...

Cabaret stars brush shoulders with burlesque showgirls, jazz and swing bands send dancers spinning around the floor, cocktails might come in teacups and decadent young thing really dress the part. Tonight Dusty Limits and Frisky & Mannish join...

It's the first birthday party for the forward-thinking anti-cabaret party, with Scottee and pals revelling in the theme 'We Hate You' (cos they're all heart, of course). Jan Moir, Nick Griffin and Paris Hilton are among the targets of righteous...

Now in its ninth year, the Millionth Muse company's panto is reliably devoted and debauched, both paying tribute to the form's traditions and playing filthy havoc with them. This year, Dusty Limits takes a well-aimed hook to J.M. Barrie's...

Burlesque performer and comedian Ivy Paige presents her latest show. Ivy Paige sucks you down the rabbit-hole in this voluptuous take on Lewis Carroll's classic. Expect business with bunnies, tea-pots and a Queen of Hearts or two.

After a year of try-outs, newcomers - some with other performance experience, some not - compete for the title of Bethanl Green Queen of Burlesque, with scene royalty judging and Jo King hosting. Consider it the beginning of the end: next week...

Chanteuse Holly Penfield entertains in the upstairs bar with her jazz trio.

The maestros of musical misappropriation have had quite a year of it, and round things off with this festive spectacular - and their West End debut. Expect wicked riffs on Wham!, Bing Crosby, Mariah Carey et al. The tasty line-up also includes...

Like magic? Love this. Promising a line-up ranging from Piff the Magic Dragon's grumpy sorcery to AJ the Escapologist and Knife Juggler's skateboard-mounted antics. Plus magical moves from Matt Hennem. Price includes Deep Funk club night after show.

With Ivy Paige.

Think you know cabaret? Drop any thoughts of middle-aged lounge singers in hotel bars. Feisty French-Irish chanteuse Camille O'Sullivan's show is, first and foremost, highly theatrical, each song sung as though it was a whole show all of its own....

Thursday nights are Folly nights at the new Proud Cabaret venue, and tonight features pianist Clifford Slapper, vaudevillian Celine Hispiche and burlesque artist Natsumi Scarlett.

This lunchtime show offers a cheeky twist on the Dickens classic and promises to deliver 'some of the biggest names in British burlesque and cabaret'.

New monthly speakeasy-style late-night lock-in, drawing Prohibition-era chic and Bloomsbury-era ideas. Music, film, poetry and art are in the mix - and, of course, dancing. This winter soiree features music from Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards...

Cabaret of magic, comedy and illusion courtesy of Richard Leigh and friends.