THEATRE REVIEW: Oklahoma
From the wonderfully evocative opening sequence when Ashley Days’ big creamy voice rings out across the theatre and we all knew we were in for a wonderful journey across the Midwest.
Eric Page
BOOK REVIEW: Out of Orange: A Memoir
Out of Orange chronicles Wolter’s time in the drug trade, her incarceration, her friendships and acquaintances with odd cellmates, her two marriages, and her complicated relationship with Piper..
BOOK REVIEW: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
With a bright enquiring and loving intelligent and geeky queer character at the heart of the narrative this coming-of-age, coming out story this is a splendid first novel from Becky Albertalli.
THEATRE REVIEW: Therapy
There were some find physical jokes too and for me the play really took off when the clowning was allowed to bloom, the Marlborough is an intimate space and with five folk being strange and manic on stage it can be quite an electrically funny.
BOOK REVIEW: Blood Relatives
Alcock has written that most lovely of books, a wonderfully spot-on working class positive coming out story of the most precious kind, authentic, self-defined and rough, but veined with hope and life lived well.
BOOK REVIEW: The Up Stairs Lounge Arson
This grim but absorbing read covers the events of June 24, 1973, when a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, an arsonist set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, 32 people lost their lives, including a third of
REVIEW: Anything Goes
It’s highbrow and lowbrow married together beautifully and Porter’s wonderfully clever puns, rhymes and lyrics are mostly allowed to shine out and dazzle.