Arts Queer Theatre Highlights: from outrageous drag panto to a rollicking queer western and iconic gay code-breaker Alan Turing Brian Butler looks at New Year queer theatre offerings By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Theatre Casting announced for S. Asher Gelman’s ‘Afterglow’, a “sensual exploration of polyamory, commitment, and modern love”, showing at Southwark Playhouse Borough Midnight Theatricals has announced the casting for S. Asher Gelman’s international hit Afterglow, which opens at Southwark Playhouse Borough on January 12, 2024. This raw, funny, and sensual exploration of polyamory, commitment, and modern love tells the story of Josh and Alex, a married couple in a By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Twelve Angry Men @ Theatre Royal Brighton Patrick Duffy serves up a quiet, reflective convincing ‘good man’ performance. Both fascinating and keeping the focus on the slow deliberate unfolding action. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre announce London transfer of Cowbois – bringing rollicking queer western to the capital The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Royal Court Theatre have announced the London transfer of Charlie Josephine’s rollicking queer western Cowbois. Due to popular demand the play will run at the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs between January 11 – February 10, 2024. Co-Directed by Char By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Theatre REVIEW: ‘2:22 A Ghost Story’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton Beautifully presented, designed and delivered, it does exactly what one might hope for – it mystifies, surprises and, at moments, shocks and, as a reviewer, to say more about the play would be doing audiences a disservice. I baulk at reviews that tell the story at the best of times, but with this ki By Andrew Kay • 2 min read
Theatre REVIEW: ‘Cowbois’ @ RSC’s Swan Theatre – a rollicking queer Western Described as “A rollicking queer Western like nothing you’ve seen before”, Cowbois is a new play written by Charlie Josephine and co-directed by Charlie and Sean Holmes for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Set in a sleepy Wild West town, the women who live there are almost entirely cut off from outsid By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Theatre Drag race star Kate Butch to battle Zombies and Vampires alongside Crudi Dench at Pleasance Theatre Kate Butch, who is currently appearing in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK series 5, sharpens her stake as Fringe hit shows Drag Queens vs Vampires and Drag Queens vs Zombies invade the Pleasance Theatre in Islington for a special double bill. The comedy queen, who has won over fans in the latest series of the By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Secret Byrd @ BREMF The Secret Mass was a beautiful opening gig to BREMF….with this sacred music made tangible, giving everyone something to sigh over By Eric Page • 4 min read
Theatre Hester-Stefan Chillingworth presents Monster Show at Camden People’s Theatre – a re-dubbing of the audio from the iconic film Frankenstein in a trans act of purging outdated narratives Opening on Halloween at Camden People’s Theatre, Monster Show considers the potential violence in how we read each other’s bodies, questioning why we crave so much to know what people look like to decide how we feel about them. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Peter Grimes @ London Coliseum (English National Opera) A night of grim fascinations. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Theatre You better watch out, you better not cry… BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon’s ‘The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show’ to bring festive spirit to the UK in November You better watch out, you better not cry, because global drag icons and RuPaul’s Drag Race stars, BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon are coming back to your town with the wildly successful, internationally acclaimed, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show – produced by BenDeLaCreme Presents. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Theatre Homo Promos, Britain’s oldest LGBTQ+ theatre company, to premiere its latest production, 1944: Home Fires, in London in September This 50-minute chamber opera is based on a possibly-true story of when Welsh icon Ivor Novello, the darling of the West End, was imprisoned in 1944 for fiddling his wartime petrol coupons. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
