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Wrestling with Giants: Piss/CARNATION's Ugly Sisters

To experience this piece is the point—it's theatre that asks us to sit with difficulty, laugh at power, and find empathy even for those who would deny our humanity. Such artistic sophistication feels essential in times like these.

By Eric Page • 3 min read

Culture

Review: This Bitter Earth at Soho Theatre

First things first: if you are in London June/July to use playwright Harrison David Rivers’ language, you need to get your cute butt down to the Soho Theatre and see This Bitter Earth. Actually, if you are anywhere in the UK or abroad and visiting London, then you need

By Brian Butler • 2 min read

Culture

A Gloriously Guilty Pleasure: Cruel Intentions Brings '90s Heat to Theatre Royal

Now! that's not what I'd call a musical, but Cruel Intentions is a gloriously guilty pleasure that succeeds despite itself

By Eric Page • 3 min read

Culture

★★★★★ Boys from the Black Stuff: A Masterclass in Masculine Vulnerability

There's something profoundly queer about watching heterosexual masculinity stripped bare

By Eric Page • 4 min read

Culture

REVIEW: Titanique - "outrageously gay"

There should be a trigger warning for Titanique the musical - it’s outrageously gay and leaves little to the fertile imagination. Co-written by Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue, and directed by Tye Blue, it’s a sure-fire, 5-star romp with a laugh every few seconds and quick-fire

By Brian Butler • 2 min read

Theatre

Olly Alexander to join cast of The National Theatre’s production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'

This ‘bold and brash Wilde reboot’ will run for a limited season at the Noël Coward Theatre from 18 September 2025 until 10 January 2026.

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Culture

REVIEW: Field of Anise @ Ironworks

It’s a story of love, of belonging, and a shocking betrayal, made worse by an ending I had not seen coming and which will make you gasp. Not only is this Amir’s debut as a playwright, he also stars and directs – an amazing achievement.

By Brian Butler • 2 min read

Arts

REVIEW: Mannequim @ Brighton Fringe – Actors

Brighton Fringe’s Mannequim is billed as a”ploem” – a mashup of a play and a poem, and it truly is, as much of its speech is cleverly  in rhyming couplets. What Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell have created is the dialogue between lifelong friends Alex and Michaela – Alex a boy desperately wanting to be [

By Eric Page • 2 min read

Theatre

Stage musical adaptation of beloved LGBTQ+ film PRIDE confirmed for National Theatre in London

A stage musical adaptation of beloved LGBTQ+ film PRIDE has been confirmed for National Theatre in London. Based on the uplifting true story of solidarity between LGBTQ+ activists and striking Welsh miners during the 1984 miners’ strike, Pride follows two seemingly disparate communities united durin

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Musical Theatre

REVIEW: ‘Stiletto’ @ Charing Cross Theatre

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

By Brian Butler • 2 min read

Theatre

REVIEW: Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder On The Orient Express’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

I kick off by saying Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express just couldn’t be bettered – it is stunning in both its staging and its acting. Lucy Bailey directs a version that teeters between white knuckle thriller and camp and comic farce – and it works, oh how it w

By Brian Butler • 2 min read

Theatre

Divina De Campo to bring new show ‘I Do Think’ to Komedia Brighton

The last time I spoke to RuPaul’s Drag Race and musical theatre star Divina De Campo, it was 2022 and they were about to embark on playing the lead in the cult musical Hedwig And The Angry Inch in Leeds. So on meeting again, my first question was: How was it? They told me: “It’s […]

By Brian Butler • 2 min read