Not Television’s top ten cabaret events 2013

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 Another year down, another heaving goodie bag of cabaret goodness to trawl through in the name of the fool’s errand of selecting the year’s finest. I won’t pretend this is remotely objective or comprehensive – it’s just ten of the moments from 2013 that stand out for me. Let me know the bits you think […]

Watching is doing! NYC’s EAI video archive

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  New York’s Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) has been archiving, preserving and exhibiting a huge range of video and multimedia work since 1971. It’s basically like Aladdin’s cave with a remote control. Personally, I’m partial to a bit of Ryan Trecartin, whose domestic sagas have bits of Jack Smith’s will-to-glamour and John Waters’s fucked-up-family vibes […]

Meanwhile, over at the Standard…

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  I wrote a round-up of a dozen festive cabaret shows for today’s Evening Standard. You can read the whole thing here.

Farewell, Time Out cabaret page. Welcome to Not Television.

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 This morning’s cabaret page in Time Out London will be the last one. This brings to an end a section that was created in January 2009 by its first editor, Simone Baird, from whom I took over in October 2009. It also brings to an end my working on a weekly basis for Time Out […]