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Cabaret stars, including Alfie Ordinary, Allan Jay, Billie Gold and Davina Sparkle, gear up for this year’s Brighton Alternative Panto – ‘Jack – Stripped Back’

Cabaret stars, including Alfie Ordinary, Allan Jay, Billie Gold and Davina Sparkle, gear up for this year’s Brighton Alternative Panto – ‘Jack – Stripped Back’

Producer Allan Cardew and stars of Brighton’s cabaret scene are gearing up for this year’s Brighton Alternative Panto: Jack – Stripped Back!, which is at Brighton Ironworks Studios from 28 January – 2 February. It’s got a starry cast of Brighton resident performers and a few visitors and will blend

Brokeback Mountain meets Top Gun. ‘Firebird’ coming to the stage for the very first time from January 9

Brokeback Mountain meets Top Gun. ‘Firebird’ coming to the stage for the very first time from January 9

It’s been called Brokeback Mountain mixed with Top Gun, and Firebird draws on a true-life Cold War story and follows a handsome soulful young soldier, who embarks on a clandestine affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on an air-force base in Soviet-occupied Estonia at the height of the Communist r

Forever The Vivienne – “An immense talent is lost to not only the LGBTQ+ community but the wider world.”

Forever The Vivienne – “An immense talent is lost to not only the LGBTQ+ community but the wider world.”

It had taken me two months to set up my interview for Scene with drag star The Vivienne – well that’s what happens when an international performer is due on your doorstep – in this case as The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang at Congress Theatre. It would turn out to be a terrific, […]

Alfie Ordinary to host Brighton’s first ever winter drag pageant

Alfie Ordinary to host Brighton’s first ever winter drag pageant

Drag Prince Alfie Ordinary is to host Brighton’s first ever winter drag pageant, The Big Drag Pageant on Ice at Brighton Dome, following its success for some years as part of Brighton Fringe. The event will in fact not feature any ice at all – according to Alfie, it’s just a name to indicate it’s […

PREVIEW: ‘Jack And the Beanstalk: What A Whopper!’ at Charing Cross Theatre

PREVIEW: ‘Jack And the Beanstalk: What A Whopper!’ at Charing Cross Theatre

A team of five theatre makers, whose acclaimed adult gay pantos regularly filled the now-gone Above The Stag Theatre, are reunited in the outrageously rude, camp and brilliant Jack And the Beanstalk: What A Whopper!, which runs at London’s Charing Cross Theatre from 23 November to 11 January. It’s w

Luke and the 7 Divas. Luke Farrugia brings cult musical “Frank´s Closet” to The Arts Theatre for one-night-only this Sunday

Luke and the 7 Divas. Luke Farrugia brings cult musical “Frank´s Closet” to The Arts Theatre for one-night-only this Sunday

When Luke Farrugia takes to the stage at the moment, he doesn’t just have to get into the character of one person – but 7, and all of them well-known and well-loved divas. Luke is starring in the cult musical Frank’s Closet, which this week gets a one-night-only outing at London’s Arts Theatre, afte

“I want to evoke nightmares.” The Vivienne speaks ahead of playing the Child Catcher in UK tour of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’

“I want to evoke nightmares.” The Vivienne speaks ahead of playing the Child Catcher in UK tour of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’

The Vivienne – first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – has a new mission in life onstage – “I want to evoke nightmares,” she tells me as she is about to bring the villainous Child Catcher to Eastbourne in the UK tour of musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Her drag name derives from her […]

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