In stories, or at least in the ones I loved as a child, magical objects appear when a lamp is polished, or a certain word is uttered, or a ring is rubbed. The end result is the same; something ...

Agnes Bernelle, who has died aged 75, used a quote from Gertrude Stein - "Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really frightening" - to introduce her memoirs, The Fun Palace (1996): she lived ...

Maggie Armstrong celebrates the life of musician, actress, black propagandist, peace activist and burlesque performer Agnes Bernelle Desmond Leslie and Agnes marry at St James's Church in London, in ...

The second half of this production's title, " ... performed live by the late Agnes Bernelle", hints at its engaging conceit. Bernelle was a Berlin-born cabaret performer who moved to Ireland after the ...

A new show, 'Songs in her Suitcase', sees Púca Puppets bring the story of the late actress and cabaret performer Agnes Bernelle to life, using a combination of puppetry, mask, documentary images, film ...

ALL the world's a stage . . . and one man in his time plays many parts, wrote Shakespeare. Something of a bard himself, Philip Chevron has been child prodigy, actor, composer, record producer, rock ...

On a visit to Castle Leslie in Ireland, Annie Lee found herself in a bedroom that once belonged to one of her great cabaret heroines, the late German singer and one-time American intelligence agent ...