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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SAVAGE, an intense drama about conversion therapy, now on at London’s White Bear Theatre.
SAVAGE White Bear Theatre, London Gay Conversion Therapy shockingly remains legal in around 170 countries, including the USA and the UK. Savage, a play written by Claudio Macor, examines a particularly horrifying period in the history of conversion therapy, namely that carried out by the Nazis during World War Two. On at London’s cute White…
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MARC BY SOFIA, an intimate documentary on the designer Marc Jacobs by his filmmaker friend Sofia Coppola
Marc Jacobs, the fashion designer, was once listed as one of the 100 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America, and somewhere along the way, he made friends with other very creative people. One of them is the multi-award-winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola, who won an Academy Award for Lost in Translation, and whose latest…
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Mary Todd Lincoln is, reimagined and unleashed in the supremely funny OH . MARY! : reviewed by Kareem Tabsch
Brevity, Booze, and the Birth of Camp. In the world of film and television, we’ve grown accustomed to stories that sprawl—series padded beyond necessity to keep audiences tethered to streaming platforms. The stage is hardly immune. Broadway has seen its share of overstuffed productions, indulgent in length if not always in insight. Perhaps that’s why…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Tracey Emin : A Second Life, an excellent new exhibition of the iconic artist’s work, now on at London’s Tate Modern.
We all live a few lives, some more extreme than others. Iconic British artist (Dame) Tracey Emin has somehow managed extreme phases throughout her life. Tracey Emin: A Second Life is a new show at London’s Tate Modern which examines a hundred pieces of her work in the context of her unique, remarkable yet…
