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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews The Importance of Being Oscar, a timely revival of Michael Mac Laimmoir’s 1960 monologue about the legendary poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. Now on at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre.
The Importance of Being Oscar ***** Original Theatre @ Jermyn St Theatre. London The Importance of Being Oscar is the timely revival of Michael Mac Liammoir’s 1960 monologue about the legendary poet, author, playwright and all-around queer dandy/activist, Oscar Wilde. Directed by Michael Fentiman and brilliantly performed by the flamboyant Alastair Whatley, the show has…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews THE BOLLYWOOD GUIDE TO REVENGE @ London’s Soho Theatre
“The Bollywood Guide to Revenge” **** SOHO THEATRE, London Gather together everybody, you’re in for an unexpected treat. Shafeeq Shajahan has created a theatrical poem, a camp tapestry woven from two tales that mirror each other. It’s a whispered secret, and a shout from the rooftops, a tale of rejection, pain, and defiance, swathed in…
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Tony Award Winner heartthrob JONATHAN GROFF is back on Broadway playing Bobby Darin in Just In Time
Tony Award winner (and queer heartthrob) Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) returns to Broadway this spring as Bobby Darin, the legendary singer whose short but remarkable life took him from teen idol to global sensation. Developed and directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers (Moulin Rouge), Just In Time is an exhilarating new…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ‘DRIVE BACK HOME’ “a dour triumph of a road movie”. @ BFI Flare London
Drive Back Home, written and directed by Michael Clowater, is a dour triumph. This character-driven road movie, starring Alan Cumming, painstakingly scrapes through layers of hurt and humanity. But it does it with a salty tenderness. It’s a story of two estranged brothers who barely have a shared vocabulary, except maybe the word ‘faggot’. Weldon…
