Jonny Woo steps back into 1960’s queer East London for his new play SILVERTOWN

  Jonny Wooster aka Jonny Woo is one of the key figures in East London’s burgeoning Alternative Drag Scenes.  He’s an actor, writer, producer, drag queen and part owner of the fabulous The Glory one of the queerest pubs in London. Asides from a stint in NY’s burlesque and cabaret scene in the early 2000’s … Continue reading

Jonny Woo’s fabulous All Star Brexit Cabaret

  Wanna see the funny side of the tragic mess called BREXIT? Then don’t miss Jonny Woo’s fabulous All Star Brexit Cabaret at London’s Coliseum Theatre. Drag Superstar Jonny Woo, the ‘king and queen’ of London’s alternative scene has teamed up with musical theatre’s ‘enfant terrible’ Richard Thomas Olivier Award-winning composer of Jerry Springer the Opera bring you … Continue reading

Jonny Woo’s ridiculously sublime Un-Royal Variety

  The Royal Variety Performance is a glitzy, annual televised quintessential annual British institution where senior members of the Royal Family sit through the (allegedly) best that UK has to offer in the way of contemporary popular entertainment. It’s been a staple tradition of show business since King George V and Queen Mary kicked the first … Continue reading

Jordan Bryon on BIRDS IN THE BORDERLANDS which looks at gender and sexual identity in the Middle East

  Australian qenderqueer filmmaker JORDAN BYRON spent 5 years in the Middle East documenting the lives of local queer people whose sexuality was causing both them and their families to be shunned and physically harmed. Their powerful & thought provoking film is having its US Premiere at Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival very … Continue reading

JORDAN : Queen of Punk dies aged 66

  1976 was such an important cultural milestone as it was when the British Punk Revolution started. They rejected contemporary mainstream discarded nostalgia with many in the scene adopting a nihilistic attitude summed up by the Sex Pistols slogan “No Future”  One social observer noted that  amid the unemployment and social unrest in 1977, “punk’s … Continue reading

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