PREVIEW: Morning Glory @Legends David is 50-something and at ease with his gay self. That is until he joins his friends to celebrate the 60th birthday of one of them in a drinking and dancing night at Clapham’s famous Two Brewers pub. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
FILM REVIEW: Cruising Veteran Academy-award winning writer/director William Friedkin has re-mastered picture and sound and re-released his highly controversial 1980 movie Cruising, starring a young Al Pacino. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
REVIEW: 8 Hotels @Minerva Theatre, Chichester In Shakespeare’s Othello, the black general of the title is driven to murder and suicide by the jealousy of his lieutenant who wrongly believes Othello has slept with his wife. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
REVIEW: Quentin Crisp-Naked Hope @Rialto Theatre Quentin Crisp is an enigmatic and controversial figure in LGBT+ culture. At once a brave, totally unashamed gay man, he was also unpredictable and contradictory, preferring to walk his own path in life – regardless of the consequences. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
REVIEW: Stones In His Pockets @Theatre Royal Imagine a play where the stars are walk-ons and the extras are the star performers. No, it’s not Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead where Hamlet has no lines; more like Waiting for Godot with no expectant menace. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
FILM REVIEW: Dust directed by Joren Molter Made for Dutch TV, Dust is a strange, haunting tale of boys and girls coming of age in a bleak and desolate rural landscape. When it seems inevitable that Alko’s first kiss will be with fellow girl worker Marie, he realises he better practice, but on whom? By Brian Butler • 1 min read
FILM REVIEW: Are You Proud? As we move towards Brighton Pride, Ashley Joiner’s 90 minute film Are You Proud? is a timely reminder of just how far LBGT+ communities have come in the last fifty years and how far there is still to go. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
REVIEW: Rainbows In Summer @St Georges Church Who would have believed that 50 years after a group of outraged LGBT + protesters took on the thuggery of the New York Police outside the Stonewall Inn, that 3 to 4 million people would celebrate in the same streets of NYC? By Brian Butler • 2 min read
CHOIR REVIEW: Actually Gay Men’s Chorus Actually Gay Men’s Chorus pull out all the stops for their new show of film and theatre tunes, Showstoppers. All the more remarkable as the event was overshadowed by the passing of one of their members on the day before opening night- the second member they have lost this year. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
THEATRE REVIEW: Girl on the Train @Theatre Royal A girl goes missing and is found dead. There are 5 suspects but can we follow the clues to the real murderer? By Brian Butler • 2 min read
REVIEW: Randy Roberts @Crazy Coqs, London Whatever else you do this week, get a ticket and go see the 5-star phenomenon that is Randy Roberts. Calling him a female impersonator makes him sound less stunning than he is, because he not only brings legends Bette Midler and Cher to the cabaret stage; he also adds his own secret ingredient- a ki By Brian Butler • 2 min read
REVIEW: Plenty @Chichester Festival Theatre Premiered in 1978 at a time when Britain was divided by industrial unrest and enjoying a fatally wounded Government, Plenty is a tale of two periods – 1943-47 and 1953 to 1962. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
