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Soho Theatre certainly knows how to attract great cabaret. As well as hosting Bourgeois & Maurice, tonight the theatre has the very last outing for the Time Out Critics’ Choice Cabaret Whore, the one-woman show by Sarah-Louise Young which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in …

Bourgeois & Maurice Bourgeois and Maurice‘s second full show, Shedding Skin, has arrived at the Soho Theatre just as many of their comedy compatriots head north for the Edinburgh Fringe. That, though, is fine with this particular duo as they have an altogether different destination: …

Currently dazzling London with his one-man show Confessions of a Dancewhore, we spoke to its star Michael Twaits, aka drag queen Lady M. about London Pride 2010. What are you looking forward to at London Pride 2010? Well there’s a lot going on – cultural …

With London Pride 2010 coming to a climax with the parade on Saturday, we spoke to top drag king Ophelia Bitz. The voluptuous comic songstress performs as her alter ego Mavarotti and was the winner of this year’s national drag king contest, King Of The …

Zawe Ashton in Salome (c) Helen Warner Between his only novel (The Picture Of Dorian Gray) and his most famous plays, Oscar Wilde wrote the blank verse play Salome in 1891. Wilde’s tale of sexual greed and brutal revenge, not shown in Britain for almost …

Previously known as the Whitehall Theatre, Trafalgar Studios is hosting Confessions of a Dancewhore, part of Pride 2010. Written and performed by Michael Twaits, the show is a queer cornucopia of cabaret, comedy and commentary exploring the politics of identity. Twaits knows how to make …

Sinead Matthews as Lulu at the Gate Theatre (c) Catherine Ashmore If you ever need a reminder of the power of theatre, this is it. Although Lulu, Frank Wedekind’s tale of a femme fatale spreading desire and destruction wherever she goes, was written over a …

Photograph courtesy of the Crowne Plaza Welcome to our third instalment in Ask a Concierge, our series of interviews with concierges of London’s hotels. Starting out at the Holiday Inn Kensington which has recently relaunched as the Crowne Plaza London Kensington, Tony Rossi will celebrate …

Photograph courtesy of Le Café Du Marché Executive Chef Simon Cottard has been working at Le Café Du Marché for 20 plus years. With three venues under one roof, his top position keeps him active, which seems to be just the recipe for his success. In …

Ever wondered what it would be like to have Alan Bennett’s monologues interpreted musically by Victoria Wood? Step this way… Co-written by Welsh composer Dafydd James and Ben Lewis (founder of award-winning theatre company Inspector Sands), ”My Name Is Sue” comes to London via the …