Shelf: Teenage Men ⚝⚝⚝⚝ Soho Theatre In a world seemingly teetering on the cusp of the abyss, Shelf have a charm that’s hard to define. Deeply comforting and oddly wholesome Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde ease the audience along a journey of sexual and gender fluidity that seems effortlessly authentic, guilelessly hilarious, and wonderfully … Continue reading
GISELLE REMIX. ⚝⚝⚝⚝ The Pleasant Theatre ,London Giselle: Remix is a sexy, lip-synching, queer balletic-dance extravaganza by Jack Sears and Hannah Grennell. This fabulous show traces a young queer person’s love/sex journey from teenage dreams of a romantic life with a Prince Charming through to the more likely options of Grindr hook-ups, sex … Continue reading
London’s queer bar/club scene at the beginning of the 1990s entered its most exciting decade to date. The homophobic attitudes of the 1980s had eased somewhat due to the widespread use of ecstasy across the UK during the recent acid house rave years. This combined with a hedonist live-for-the-moment attitude in the queer community … Continue reading
For one night only West End Royalty : Maureen Lipman, Tom Conti and Anne Reid are to head the cast for a rehearsed reading of Peter Shaffer’s critically acclaimed play Lettice and Lovage. Flamboyant tour guide, Lettice Douffet comes up against brusque traditionalist Charlotte Schoen from the Preservation Trust, for theatrically over-embellishing historical … Continue reading
FRANKS CLOSET ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ UNION THEATRE, LONDON If you love divas, dresses, declarations of love, and dancing girls, then head down to London’s Union Theatre. This month, theatre founder Sasha Regan directs Frank’s Closet, a wonderfully camp extravaganza, written and composed by Stuart Wood. Frank (Andy Moss, Hollyoaks) is about to get married but his … Continue reading
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