cabaret

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What she presents is more like the world’s campiest cabaret act, with the Bride as a mashup of Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis and maybe Natasha Lyonne.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

The “Firework” hitmaker and Trudeau confirmed their relationship in October, when they stepped out hand in hand at a cabaret show in Paris.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

One of her original creations, the faded cabaret queen Lola Heatherton, armored herself in plastered-on wigs and stage finery, façades obscuring the jittery desperation of a woman hanging on by the quicks of her fingernails.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026

The plan for an improvisational, conversational, easy, breezy holiday cabaret lasted about two weeks before morphing into what Jinkx describes as a “two-act variety show, musicale, theatrical spectacular.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

His father, who had been a public official, ended up running a “teahouse” in Hiroshima—something like a cabaret.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston