FLAIR ENTERTAINMENTS SHOWCASE 2024SMILE BAR HUDDERSFIELDSEPTEMBER 2024PRODUCER: Rachel Hainsworth & Adam Parker BrownREVIEWER: Mark RitchieIt turned out to be an evening to be proud of for agent Rachel Hainsworth, as Flair Entertainments paraded their wares at an event staged within a highly unusual venue. The Smile Bar in Huddersfield is… Continue reading
EDITORIAL SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES If you are involved in any of the fields below, you may be interested in an editorial sponsorship arrangement with UK Cabaret.AVAILABLE SPONSORSHIP FEATURES: UK NOSTALGIAUK COMEDYUK VARIETY AND TOURINGFrom just £39 a month your business can have a regular full-page in every issue and a say… Continue reading
BBC News: “People sent long distances for Covid tests” I’ve heard people have travelled from London to Castle Barnard to get their eyes tested, too. Non Stick Nora wanted a divorce because of Barmy Albert’s obsession with metaphors. He told me:- “It came like a bolt out of the… Continue reading
Typical UK innit! If perchance we have one centimetre of snow, then the country grinds to a halt. A serious pandemic virus and it’s: “Oh, let’s go to Blackpool and get some fish and chips!” They say you can’t fix stupid. It would appear that you can’t quarantine it either!… Continue reading
Best Facebook status of last week was about our new prime minister, Boris Johnson, who as you probably know was educated at Oxford and Eton and excelled in English and Classics. However, on Facebook, Sharon, an overweight, unemployed chav from Toxteth, is of the profound opinion that: “Boris Jonsen is… Continue reading
BY PUBLISHING THIS NEW AND REGULAR FEATURE, WE HOPE TO FOCUS ON THE BUSINESS LIVES OF UK CABARET SUBSCRIBERS WHO OPERATE IN THE AGENCY SECTOR. BARRIE LUCAS HAS BEEN A COUNCILLOR OF THE AGENTS ASSOCIATION FOR MANY YEARS AND TALKS TO MARK RITCHIE ABOUT HIS CAREER JOURNEY. MR: How long… Continue reading
I cleared out my grandmother’s house yesterday, I put all the good stuff on eBay and I took the rest down to the car boot sale and some to the charity shop, I then went to the estate agent and put her house on the market. You should have seen… Continue reading
If you are on PAYE and you look at your payslip this week and you wonder what NI stands for, then it’s Northern Ireland, so it is. The futures bright. The futures orange! Jose Mourinho has told Wayne Rooney that if he wants to leave Old Trafford, he’ll have… Continue reading
Name drops and acid drops UK Cabaret managing editor Mark Ritchie recalls some of the high-spots and low points in his long career as an entertainer and show business journalist. Entertainers who moan about reviews they are unhappy with soon became part and parcel of life as a reviewer during… Continue reading
Edinburgh Fringe review 6
UK Comedy By Mark Ritchie | August 3, 2026 - 10:00 am |August 3, 2026 News UK COMEDYUK Cabaret comedy page this time features the language of Shakespeare no less! It was The Bard himself who first coined the phrase ‘Dragging the Dress’. Mark Ritchie writes about Drag, even including his own expe...
Edinburgh Fringe review 5
UK Comedy By Mark Ritchie | August 3, 2026 - 10:00 am |August 3, 2026 News UK COMEDYUK Cabaret comedy page this time features the language of Shakespeare no less! It was The Bard himself who first coined the phrase ‘Dragging the Dress’. Mark Ritchie writes about Drag, even including his own expe...
Edinburgh Fringe review 3
UK Comedy By Mark Ritchie | August 3, 2026 - 10:00 am |August 3, 2026 News UK COMEDYUK Cabaret comedy page this time features the language of Shakespeare no less! It was The Bard himself who first coined the phrase ‘Dragging the Dress’. Mark Ritchie writes about Drag, even including his own expe...
