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It’s Venice, it’s 1751, and everyone is at it like rabbits. A stiletto – a small, but deadly dagger is at the heart of this rumbustious romp of a musical, with book by Tim Luscombe and music and lyrics by Matthew Wilder (creator of Mulan). The hiss-boo racist and villainous Count Pietro (Douglas Han
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Omg 50 years ago this summer, The Rocky Horror Picture Show – for me, the best independent musical comedy horror film of all time was released (August 1975). I wasn’t born yet but watching it for the first time with my mum (hey mother duckling!) in the 90’s is etched in my memory. Ten year […]
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Calamity Jane -West End actress and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher drives this stagecoach with relentless toe tapping energy
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Sequins, Salvation, and Societal Transformation at Kinky Boots, a fiercely luminous testament to resilience, identity, and radical empathy.
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This renowned romantic opera, telling the heartbreaking story of the consumptive Mimi and her penniless writer lover, was beautifully brought to life on stage.
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Last weekend I stepped into the glamorous world of Runway Magazine at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End for the new Devil Wears Prada musical with my BFF, (hey doll if you’re reading this :)). Vanessa Williams, best known for her celebrated roles in Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives and as
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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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Overall, After the Act is a powerful and timely theatrical experience that shines a light on a dark chapter of LGBTQ+ history while celebrating the resilience and activism of the community. It is a must-see for anyone interested in queer stories and the ongoing fight for equality, just don’t go expe
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As they tell us in their opening number, this is a show where “two legends are together forever.” Steven Brinberg brings us a quietly confident, laid-back Barbra Streisand, whereas Rick Skye is a feisty Liza Minnelli – all staccato hand gestures and with a sky-full of twinkles in her eyes. Much of t
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For over two decades actor Rick Skye has been getting under the skin of gay icon Liza Minnelli but his career could have gone in a totally different direction. He hit the stage as a child as Max in the Sound of Music and his teacher told his mother: “this one’s a character.” At 14 […]
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Evan Hansen is an isolated high school student with no friends and no life and on medication for social anxiety disorder- and he’s fallen out of a tree and broken his arm, now in plaster. When his doctor prescribes that he writes a daily letter to himself – hence the show title Dear Evan Hansen […]
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Thatcher’s Section 28, which banned the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools, was the landmark legislation that silenced a generation, offered a global blueprint for LGBTQ+ oppression and galvanised a movement. Showing at Brighton Dome in November, After the Act: A Section 28 Musical is funny, ca