The Arts Reviews: Cabaret Betty Buckley Divas at the Donmar Donmar Warehouse LondonTHE ARTS REVIEWS: CabaretEdward Seckerson
The other nicety is the title of the film. One might assume (I did) that the character of Mimi is female and is seduced by a male but in Wertmüller’s film, it is the reverse. This causes traditional gender stereotypes to be turned on their heads with more awareness of assumptions. ...
Stars of cabaret sing the Great American Songbook New York Cabaret Convention: A Salute to Sheldon Harnick and Charles Strouse By Marc Miller on Oct. 25, 2016To quote a predecessor of Harnick's, "Who could ask for anything more?"The...
“There was a cabaret and an Emcee. There was a city named Berlin in a country named Germany and it was the end of the world. And I was dancing with Sally Bowles and we were both sleepwalking.” I had always seen productions that had Cliff pause at “and it was the end of the wo...
It is a delightful mix of narrative play and cabaret turn; it is very funny and surprisingly camp. The show is performed in a blend of Hindi and English, but such are the strengths of the performances that even with no grasp of Hindi, the audience knows what’s going on and still ...
A new composition performed by London’s Phaedra Ensemble is inspired by a curious sonic phenomenon known as The Hum. Vanessa Ague investigates Album of the Week The Poison Was the Cure: Religious Equipment by Quiet Husband Richie Culver may have named all the tracks after the contents of his...
“The Blue Angel” where she played a seductive cabaret singer. Von Sternberg brought her to Hollywood where she rose to become the biggest female star in Hollywood. She co-starred with James Stewart in one of her greatest roles, “Destry Rides Again” in 1939. She became a United States ...
Theaterscene is sad to report that Sandi Durell, the founder and longtime publisher and editor of Theaterpizzazz, has passed after a long, courageous battle with cancer. Many in the theater and cabaret community loved Sandi; she was special, vibrant, and delightful. We send our condolences to...
Pabst treated her with a regard and respect that Hollywood had never given her, even though she irked him by relishing the city's "life is a cabaret" energy to a degree that would make Sally Bowles blush. (She later made it up to him by giving the director one night of what she de...
Instead, Quadrophenia the film quickly grasped me for the storyline alone and makes up for the lack of music with a gripping tale of teenage angst and conflict amid the streets of London. Reportedly, the story is at least somewhat derived from the life of Who member Pete Townshend and the...