Café Society Swing continues at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London until 16 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The stories of so many of America’s greatest black cabaret and jazz stars are dominated by Café Society, the club in New York’s Greenwich Village which ran for ten years from 1938 to 1948. When […]
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Jazz-flavoured Cafe Society Swing to play Stratford East
Actor Peter Gerald will join the accomplished international cast taking to the stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East next month in Café Society Swing, a celebration of the first racially-desegregated jazz club in New York. Directed by Christian Durham, and packed with jazz, blues, gospel and bebop, Café Society Swing will see Gerald (Little Shop of […]
