Ben Richards and guests: Swing Into Springtime was reviewed at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The programme was well-paced, the performances were consistently high in quality, and the atmosphere felt perfectly suited to the venue.
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Much-loved Musical Theatre Review contributor Jeremy Chapman dies at the age of 84
Jeremy Chapman became not just one of my most treasured reviewers, but a wonderful companion on nights out at the theatre and a dear friend.
David Marino – Crazy Coqs
David Marino performed at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Marino sings with a maturity that far exceeds his years and his youthful looks.
The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway – Crazy Coqs
The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 29 November 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Callaway equates performing at Crazy Coqs to ‘singing in a human hug’, not such a bad description for how it feels to be in her presence.
Dillie Keane: Still Curious – Crazy Coqs
Dillie Keane: Still Curious at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This supremely visual artist has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
Talking Point: Janie Dee in Conversation With Edward Seckerson – Crazy Coqs
Talking Point: Janie Dee in Conversation with Edward Seckerson at Crazy Coqs, London.
Boum! C’est Chantastique – Crazy Coqs
Boum! C’est Chantastique was reviewed at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Certainly, come the end, the audience had been charmed by this highly individual tribute to three fine artists.
Mrs & Mr: Navigating Marriage and Musical Theatre – Crazy Coqs
Mrs & Mr: Navigating Marriage and Musical Theatre was performed at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Not just a masterclass in musical theatre performance, but a sweetly life-affirming evening out too.
Dagmarr’s Dimache: Hersh Dagmarr – Crazy Coqs
Dagmarr’s Dimache: Hersh Dagmarr at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
Beautiful World Cabaret With Laura Pitt-Pulford – Crazy Coqs
Laura Pitt-Pulford performed at Crazy Coqs, London as part of Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret season. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It was a delightful homespun evening, encapsulating the importance of us caring for each other and for the world we live in.
Stars to come out for Janie Dee-led Beautiful World cabaret shows
Double Olivier Award-winning actress and singer Janie Dee’s series of star-studded Beautiful World Cabaret shows at London’s Crazy Coqs, celebrating the Earth, begins today (13 May).
Karen Mason: Kander & Ebb… And All That Jazz! – Crazy Coqs
Karen Mason: Kander & Ebb… And All That Jazz! continues at the Crazy Coqs, London on 28 April 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It was material from less familiar shows that made this 70-minute tribute so captivating
Five Questions With: Karen Mason
It’s rare for Broadway actress-singer, recording star and cabaret great KAREN MASON to come to the UK – the last time she sang in London was in 2013. Here Jeremy Chapman catches up prior to the performer’s Kander and Ebb show And All That Jazz! at London’s Crazy Coqs on 24 and 28 April 2025, as part of Musical Theatre Review’s interview series Five Questions With…
An Evening with Liz Callaway – Crazy Coqs
An Evening with Liz Callaway continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 17 March 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cabaret is such a tricky artform to pull off, but every time I am privileged to be in the same room as American actress and singer Liz Callaway, she makes it look easy.
Man Without a Mask: Hugh Panaro – Crazy Coqs
Man Without a Mask: Hugh Panaro at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A powerful antidote to the blues, that’s Hugh Panaro. Please come back soon!
Five Questions With: Hugh Panaro
Hugh Panaro is back in London with the UK premiere of Hugh Panaro – Man Without a Mask, a highly personal scrapbook of a life and career, taking audiences backstage, into dressing rooms and right to the heart of Broadway.
Snapshots: Lorna Dallas – Crazy Coqs
Snapshots: Lorna Dallas at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some cabaret singers age gracefully, others disgracefully but the unique voice of the great American Lorna Dallas doesn’t seem to age at all.
Deux Grandes Dames – Crazy Coqs
Deux Grandes Dames with Melissa Errico and Isabelle Georges at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Five Questions With: Melissa Errico
One of the hottest cabaret tickets in town this summer will be the visit of Deux Grandes Dames, New York superstar MELISSA ERRICO and her Parisian soulmate Isabelle Georges, to the Crazy Coqs in London’s Piccadilly on 10 and 13 July 2024.
Five Questions With: Tamar Broadbent
Award-winning singer-songwriter Tamar Broadbent will be presenting her brand-new cabaret show Plus One on 25 June at London’s Crazy Coqs. Here she continues Musical Theatre Review’s interview series: Five Questions With…
Here’s to the Ladies… Bonnie Langford – Crazy Coqs
Here’s to the Ladies… Bonnie Langford at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Once upon a time, as Baby June, she would sing ‘Let me entertain you’. Fifty years on and the ever-youthful Langford is doing that as brilliantly as ever.
Takin’ Stock 2, Kim Criswell 30 Years Upon the Wicked Stages of Europe – Crazy Coqs
Takin’ Stock 2, Kim Criswell 30 Years Upon the Wicked Stages of Europe at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Life and Loves of a Broadway Baby: Melissa Errico – Crazy Coqs
The Life and Loves of a Broadway Baby: Melissa Errico at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
London concert and festival date for Broadway’s Melissa Errico
Tony-nominated actress and singer Melissa Errico will play two London concerts ahead of making an appearance at the Lichfield Music Festival early next month.
Miss-Leading Ladies: Back With A Vengeance! – Crazy Coqs
Miss-Leading Ladies: Back With A Vengeance! Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Frankie and Beausy: Frances Ruffelle and Norman Bowman – Crazy Coqs
Frankie and Beausy: Frances Ruffelle and Norman Bowman at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Merrily From Center Stage: Ann Morrison – Crazy Coqs
Merrily From Center Stage: Ann Morrison at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Barb Jungr: Chanson – Crazy Coqs
Barb Jungr performed Chanson at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Takin’ Stock: Kim Criswell 50 Years Upon The Wicked Stage – Crazy Coqs
Takin’ Stock: Kim Criswell 50 Years Upon the Wicked Stage at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tori With An “I” – Crazy Coqs
Tori Scott: Culture Shock at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tori Scott blazes onstage, her personality lighting up the room, a cross between Bette Midler and a young Ethel Merman. The voice rings out, belting in a healthy chest sound, the top notes never shouted, and the emotion true.
The Fabulist Fox Sister – Crazy Coqs
The Fabulist Fox Sister was performed at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Donna McKechnie: Take Me To The World – The Songs of Stephen Sondheim – Crazy Coqs
Donna McKechnie: Take Me To The World – The Songs of Stephen Sondheim at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Nina Kristofferson to play festive concert at London’s Crazy Coqs
Multi-award-winning star Nina Kristofferson will return to London’s Crazy Coqs to showcase much-loved Christmas classics in her Festive Christmas Concert in December.
Out of the Dark: The Film Noir Project – Melissa Errico – Crazy Coqs
Out of the Dark: The Film Noir Project – Melissa Errico at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim – Crazy Coqs
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 22 October 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Linda Lavin: Love Notes / Billy Stritch: Cy Coleman Revisited – Crazy Coqs
Linda Lavin: Love Notes at the Crazy Coqs, London Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Billy Stritch: Cy Coleman Revisited at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ La crème de la crème from the New York cabaret scene were at the Crazy Coqs for the […]
I’m Comin’ Out – Patti Boulaye
I’m Comin’ Out was performed by Patti Boulaye at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Patti Boulaye’s new show I’m Comin’ Out centres around Diana Ross, both her songs and her life, and kicks off with an encounter at the London Palladium when Boulaye sensed that Ross didn’t really […]
Fane to step down as Crazy Coqs programmer after six years
Fane, the independent programmer at Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zédel is stepping down at the end of this year after six years and over 3,500 shows at the London cabaret hotspot. In a joint statement Fane’s James Albrecht, Clemmie Haynes and Alex Fane said: “Programming Crazy Coqs has been a huge privilege – one of […]
Soho Songs – Crazy Coqs
Soho Songs: A new Song Cycle by Barb Jungr & Mike Lindup at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Barb Jungr and Mike Lindup, words and music, have created this poignant homage to the Soho that many of us remember from our youth in the 1970s and 80s. A Soho […]
Moments by Sondheim – Crazy Coqs
Moments by Sondheim at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Among the numerous huge celebrations of Stephen Sondheim around the world today, it’s good to also have some intimate ones such as these Moments by Sondheim, given to us with much talent and humour by classically trained soprano Julez […]
Triple Threats: Broadway, Jazz & Soul – Crazy Coqs
Triple Threats: Broadway, Jazz, & Soul was performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After 16 months online, during which Harold Sanditen managed to host over 500 vocalists from around the world, the Open Mic Party is alive and well, back in person at the Crazy Coqs where it […]
Broadway star Linda Lavin to make London concert debut
Tony and Golden Globe-winning actress and singer Linda Lavin will make her London concert debut at Crazy Coqs in September. The Broadway legend who received the first of her six Tony Award nominations in 1970 for her performance in the Neil Simon play Last of the Red Hot Lovers, will bring her show Love Notes […]
Crazy Coqs concert date for Nina Kristofferson
Multi-award-winning actor, singer and writer Nina Kristofferson will bring her hit show Timeless to London’s Crazy Coqs in June 2022. The actor, singer and writer of critically acclaimed Nina Kristofferson’s Billie Holiday Story will return to the capital with Nina Kristofferson’s Timeless on 10 June. Performing a selection of songs from writers as varied as […]
The Joy of Spring: Lorna Luft – Crazy Coqs
The Joy of Spring: Lorna Luft at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For our greatest pleasure after only five months, Lorna Luft was back again at Crazy Coqs, this time celebrating spring with a zing, accompanied by Simon Beck on the piano and Fraser Snell on the double […]
An Evening with Billy Stritch – Crazy Coqs
An Evening with Billy Stritch at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Alongside his concert with Lillias White, legendary musical director and pianist singer Billy Stritch, best known for having been Liza Minnelli’s companion and confidant for decades, does a solo turn. It’s a live version of his highly […]
Lillias White sings Broadway / Hoagy Carmichael & Friends – Crazy Coqs
Lillias White sings Broadway / Hoagy Carmichael & Friends at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (for each show!) Lillias White is making her cabaret debut in London, with master musical director Billy Stritch on piano. Her first show is Lillias White sings Broadway, appropriately starting with a mashup […]
On a clear day you can see Simply Barbra Forever – Crazy Coqs
On a clear day you can see Simply Barbra Forever at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ After two years of postponements due to Covid, Steven Brinberg was finally able to treat us to his new show, On a clear day you can see Simply Barbra Forever, a 51st […]
From Cy Coleman to Barry Manilow to bossa nova – Enjoy An Evening With Billy Stritch
BILLY STRITCH is an award-winning pianist and singer who is known to audiences worldwide for his many solo concert performances and as accompanist and musical director for Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett and Marilyn Maye to name but a few. During the pandemic, Billy created his own weekly Facebook livestream music show called Billy’s Place. For […]
Broadway star Lillias White takes centre stage at London’s Crazy Coqs
Multi-award-winning Broadway star LILLIAS WHITE will bring two of her most popular shows to London’s Crazy Coqs this April. The star whose Broadway credits include Cats, Fela!, Chicago, Barnum and How to Success in Business Without Really Trying will take centre stage from 14-23 April 2022 for alternate performances of Lillias White Sings Broadway and […]
Amour & After: Melissa Errico Sings Michel Legrand – Crazy Coqs
Amour & After: Melissa Errico sings Michel Legrand at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With Melissa Errico you get the full package – a voice to die for like no other, a fabulous, sparkly blue dress she bought specially for the Crazy Coqs, an infectious giggle with all […]
