Arts
FRINGE REVIEW: MYTHOS: RAGNAROK
This show, all throbbing muscle and wrestling on top holds a seriously affirming message at heart, …..we went for the eye candy, but left thrilled, enchanted and seriously entertained.
Arts
FRINGE REVIEW: Lachlan Werner: Voices of Evil @ Spiegeltent Bosco
‘a delightful, daft and debauched hour of occult decadence..’
Birmingham
Birmingham drag performers end relationship with venue over transphobic event
The decision to end this ongoing event is due to the venue deciding to continue with the booking of a transphobic individual.
Cabaret
Birmingham’s Eden Bar to host screening of ‘MAISIE’ documentary on Sunday, May 13
Birmingham’s Eden Bar will be hosting a screening of MAISIE: Britain’s Oldest Performing Drag Queen on Sunday, May 13 at 3.30pm. MAISIE the documentary follows David Raven who has worked for 50 years as a drag queen, Maisie Trollette.
Cabaret
Darcelle XV, the world’s oldest working drag queen, dies aged 92
Darcelle was crowned the world’s oldest working drag performer in 2016 by the Guinness Book of World Records. The performer’s death from natural causes was announced on Facebook by the club she ran in Portland, Oregon, that was named after her drag persona.
Community News
‘David at 90’: David Raven’s 90th Birthday to be celebrated with a Gala Concert at Brighton Dome in July
The Brighton Rainbow Fund is inviting everyone to join in the celebrations to mark a milestone birthday of a remarkable man and his remarkable career, and to raise funds to distribute as grants to local LGBTQ+ and HIV projects.
Arts
SPOTLIGHT ON : Openings and closures, drag addiction and Eurovision
Brian Butler looks at a feast of new theatre
Arts
Man Up, billed as Europe’s biggest and boldest Drag King battle, returns to alternative London pub The Glory from March
Man Up, billed as Europe’s biggest and boldest Drag King battle, returns to alternative London pub The Glory from March.
Arts
Joe Black’s Kleines Kabarett – a gin-soaked cabaret extravaganza – at Komedia Brighton on Tuesday, April 4
Living somewhere between the stages of music, theatre and comedy, Joe Black takes an audience firmly by the hand and guides them to a place where the strange and unusual reign supreme.
Arts
SPOTLIGHT ON: Maisie Trollette film gets a Brighton showing
Brian Butler looks forward to another showing of a film on a Brighton legend
Arts
SPOTLIGHT ON: Hilarious drag game show ‘Disnay Snatched’ to raise funds for Wandsworth Oasis at The Two Brewers on February 16
“Drag queens competing – what could go wrong?”
Arts
PREVIEW: Vault Festival – quirky, funny, challenging and often shocking
Brian Butler finds quirky, dark, comic and explicit shows to please all tastes