Stage and screen star Ute Lemper will bring her personal tribute to Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich back to London this summer. Created and performed by the multi-award-winning Broadway and West End actress and recording artist, Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene will play Cadogan Hall on 18 June 2022. Based on her own telephone encounter with […]
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Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene – Livestream
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene will be also be streamed globally on 25 November 2020 and 5 December 2020 after being filmed at Club Cumming in New York with Alan Cumming and Ute Lemper as producers. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ute Lemper’s career, spanning over 30 years is vast and varied. She has […]
Rendezvous With Marlene: Ute Lemper – Electric Theatre, Guildford and Touring
Rendezvous With Marlene: Ute Lemper at the Electric Theatre, Guildford, and on tour until 8 February 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It was quite a coup for the 180-seater Electric Theatre, not even Guildford’s biggest, to host an international superstar of Ute Lemper’s stature and the New York-based German diva […]
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with Marlene – Arcola Theatre
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with Marlene continues at the Arcola Theatre, London until 19 May 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In the late 1980s, German actress Ute Lemper was playing the role of Sally Bowles in a Parisian production of Cabaret, for which the French press dubbed her “la nouvelle Marlene”. Lemper […]
Peter Groom’s Dietrich show Natural Duty to play Wilton’s Music Hall
Actor, dancer and choreographer Peter Groom’s hit theatrical cabaret tribute to Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich is heading back to London this November with a transfer run at Wilton’s Music Hall. Created and performed by Groom, Dietrich – Natural Duty will follow its sold-out run at the Vault Festival 2018 in January, arriving back in the […]
Too Young to Stay In: Too Old to Go Out – Nigel Osner – Sweet Werks 2, Brighton
Too Young to Stay In – Too Old to Go Out, performed by Nigel Osner, continues at Sweet Werks 2, Brighton until 28 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Returning to the Brighton Fringe where last year he performed Angel to Vampire, Nigel Osner premieres his latest work. His new show […]
Dietrich: Natural Duty – Pit Theatre at The Vaults
Dietrich: Natural Duty continues at The Vaults, London until 28 January. The production is part of VAULT 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Legend has it that when Marlene Dietrich appeared at the Wolverhampton Grand in 1966, she took a broom to the stage each night, sweeping the boards to ensure […]
Interview – actor and drag artist Peter Groom explores Marlene Dietrich’s Natural Duty at the Vault Festival
PETER GROOM moved to London from Newcastle at the age of 17, and trained at the Guildford School of Acting on the three-year acting course. Since graduating, he has appeared in a number of roles in the UK and overseas – including Berlin and New York – and became artist in residence at Battersea Arts […]
Interview – Fiona-Jane Weston on her latest one-woman show Heroines
Actress and singer FIONA-JANE WESTON’s one-woman tribute to remarkable women began in 2009 with the show 20th Century Woman – The Compact Cabaret. Since then she has produced a tribute to the heroic women of the First and Second World Wars, Wartime Women – The Khaki Cabaret; Looking For Lansbury, an homage to stage and screen veteran star Angela Lansbury; […]
Wartime Women: A Khaki Cabaret – Fiona-Jane Weston – St James Studio
Wartime Women: A Khaki Cabaret was performed by Fiona-Jane Weston at St James Studio, London. Now for something completely different – a cabaret about the role women played in war, from Queen Elizabeth I’s speech to the troops at Tilbury in 1588 to Hannah Snell, who disguised herself as a man and joined the Marines in 1747 (and […]
Halbwelt Kultur – Jermyn Street Theatre
Halbwelt Kultur continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 15 December. Halbwelt Kultur explores the world of political upheaval and exuberant cultural experimentation during the Weimar Republic, and highlights in particular the work of six extraordinary female artists – international film star and cabaret singer Marlene Dietrich, lesbian entertainer Claire Waldoff, actress and singer […]
