Queer artists/performers The Cocoa Butter Club and Bold Mellon Collective present two shows at London’s Bethnal Green Rich Mix arts space next week as part of Soul on Ice. This is the latest festival from Certain Blacks, the East London arts organization specializing in celebrating diversity. The program is named after the seminal 1968 book … Continue reading
Frank’s Closet, the off-West End cult stage hit of 2009 is back! Staged at Hoxton Hall, one of England’s last remaining Victorian music halls, it sold out to packed houses and glowing reviews. Now it is to get its first London revival at the Union Theatre, Bankside, SE1, with additional new material by … 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
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
Jarman ☆☆☆☆☆ Greenwich Theatre, London ”Decadence is a sign of intelligence.” This quote, spoken by Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Howerd’s End) as Derek Jarman in his new solo play Jarman, reminded me of the brilliant mind we lost to AIDS in 1994. You could always rely on Jarman to give an … Continue reading
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