Black Superhero ★★★★ Royal Court Theatre Black Superhero, currently on at London’s excellent Royal Court Theatre, takes us into the world of a group of queer black actors and their associates. Set in London, David (Lewis Brown), King (Dyllon Burnside) and Raheem (Eloka Ivo) are old friends and hang out together a lot. David … Continue reading
David Pevsner’s book Damn Shame – A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes is exactly that. We join him on a conversational romp through New York and LA’s theatrical, gay sex and activism worlds from the 1980s to the present day. Born in 1958 into a middle-class Jewish family in suburban Chicago, Pevsner grew … Continue reading
In the early 20th Century, before World War I, Munich, Germany was home to an international group of avant-garde artists who transformed modern art. Known as the Expressionists, their work focused on form, colour, sound and performance. A major new show at London’s Tate Modern gallery – Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue … Continue reading
FOAM ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ Foam is a brilliant new play on at London’s ground-breaking, award-winning Finborough Theatre in Earls Court, a theatre that’s been specialising in new and rediscovered plays since 1980. The debut play from playwright Harry McDonald, Foam, is loosely based on the life of infamous gay skinhead Londoner Nicky Crane, whom we … 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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