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Mexico's finest are back! Following a scorchio season in July, the best luchadores Mexico has to offer don their masks and return to the Roundhouse
Read moreFri Dec 5 - Sat Jan 3 2009, Battersea Arts Centre
1927 present this ethereal show of fractured fairy tales told through live music, animation, cabaret, silent film and music hall-style song
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Sun Dec 7, The Brickhouse
The inimitable, spectacular talent that is Empress Stah presents her Christmas show of circus, magic, mime and song
Critics' Choice
Thu Dec 4, Madame Jo Jo's
A very long line-up of international burlesque girls this evening at Chaz Royal's striptease show. Charlotte La Belle Araignee (Hollywood), Angela Eve...
Thu Dec 4, The Basement
Jamie Anderson hosts this cabaret showcase featuring three rising stars in the musical theatre world.
FREE
Thu Dec 4, The Social
If you've ever fancied yourself as a Missy, Eminem, Beastie Boy or Snoop then here's your chance to act out your rap fantasies. Free beer and prizes to be...
FREE
Critics' Choice
Fri Dec 5, Cordy House
Promising 'a multimedia pile up of artistic endeavour celebrating the evolution of artistic spirit', Mutoid Waste take over the five floors of Behind The...
Critics' Choice
Tue Dec 9, Electricity Showrooms
Scrunch down your legwarmers, find that leotard you swore never to wear again, and grapevine down to the disco-tastic basement for an old school aerobics...
Critics' Choice
Sat Dec 6, Mass
Spectacular, mind-blowing fetish party, all thanks, as ever, to Torture Garden. On stage: Empress Stah's 'Ice Palace of Malice', Joe Black, Maleficent...

Wed Dec 31
Start the year as you mean to go on splitting your sides, or getting kinky, at one of these top comedy and cabaret New Year's Eve soirées
Forget hammy men in masks and tights, Lucha Libre is becoming an international phenomenon, with...
The 36-year-old alternative performance artist Johnny Woo picks a dedicated youngster with...
Time Out dons a mask and joins the hedonistic party scene and the ‘world’s sexual elite’
A momentary lapse in concentration resulted in Time Out’s Comedy editor, Tim Arthur, entering...
From folding jumpers on Regent Street to wearing hair skirts in downtown New York, Jonny Woo...
Time Out gets its frock out and dons its pearls as we hits London‘s thriving tea dance scene...
Can-can dancing is a fantastic French workout but are its sexual politics out of step? Time Out...
Immodesty Blaize reveals the strip performers – old and new – who get her excited
Shining cabaret star Camille is all set to ignite London
Clueless about cabaret? Bemused by burlesque? Try Social Club leader Simone Baird’s...
Visceral, subversive and, above all, entertaining: a new generation of performers are proving...
Time Out examines the Circus of Horrors and looks back at London’s centuries-long love affair...
Burlesque performer Miss Polly Rae tells Time Out London about her inspiration for her show at...