Cabaret

Hotel de l’Avenir is a show from graduate students in the CalArts (California Institute of Arts) School of Theater (sic) and has been inspire

Rob Bailey, illusionist and psychologist brings his show to the Fringe and looks at the world of homeopathy, the psychic and reiki practitioner.

Fringe minus 1. It's late, and a few hours from now more venues start rolling out their preview shows: Thursday sees previews from C Venues, the Bedlam, Zoo, and the Gilded Balloon to name a few. So I should be in bed.

From the crucible that brought us last year’s ‘La Clique’, Smoke and Mirrors is another treat from the Australian post-cabaret scene.

Frances Ruffelle is a sparkling, shimmering star in the world of Musical Theatre, winning a Tony Award for her Broadway role of Eponine in Les Miserables, with lead performances in Chicago, Ll

Dan Willis offers his comedic musings on the 1986 feel-good movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which the eponymous hero skipped school and, as the tagline says “did it all in one day&rd

Ghillie Dhu is a splendid, new, high-ceilinged venue, with a long mirrored bar reminiscent of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies- Bergère.

A single woman looks back on her life, and reveals a very special, hidden talent

 The desperate divas are back in town. Following last year’s successful “Cabaret Whore!” Sarah-Louise Young returns with four alter egos who sketch out their lives in so

At  9.50pm on a Sunday night, I join the queue snaking from the archway of the Assembly Hall, round the corner up the Mound almost to the High Street.  Camille, the Celtic Queen of Cabaret is back in town following sell out seasons in London, New York and Sydney. From her Edinburgh debut in Le Cirque in 2003, and her award winning Spiegeltent show in 2007, it's been a long journey for this French-Irish architect from Cork who literally ran away with the Circus to be a global musical star.

The last time I saw an audience as glamorous as the one at High Tease, was at a Bryan Ferry concert. Say no more! This was my first taste of a burlesque show so the clues were there already for a fantastic, glittering, liberating, cheekily funny night.

They come along rarely, like diamonds in coal dust, glittering in all that darkness that is the Edinburgh Fringe: a perfectly formed comedic character with all the edges polished and rounded, the intonations and inflexions practised until they are flawless and have the impact and presence of a high yield, nuclear detonation.

Energy. Enthusiasm. Skimpy costumes. A casino. All in a fabulous historical venue, the Jam House. What more could you want from a late night cabaret show?

If you like cabaret burlesque this is a must because Voodoo Vaudeville know how to hold a very naughty party!

Penelope and Madeleine Solomon sing and sketch their way through an hour's worth of entertainment accompanied by a fine three-piece ensemble of button accordion, snare drum and double bass. This trio can certainly klezmer (klezmer being Jewish secular music, deriving from kleys (a vessel) and mer (song), i.e., song for drinking occasions).

Willcommen, Bienvenue, Welcome to the Cabaret, 21st century style - sexy, sophisticated, classy and deliciously camp. The genre of cabaret, created as avant garde, risqué adult entertainment in Paris in the 1890s, has always been about pushing the boundaries of taste and decency from naughty but nice to the daringly decadent.