• Gareth Pugh’s THIS BRIGHT LAND: a Summer Festival of Community and Culture

    Gareth Pugh’s THIS BRIGHT LAND: a Summer Festival of Community and Culture

      Somerset House is a large Neoclassical complex situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge.  The Georgian era quadrangle was built on the site of a Tudor palace (“Old Somerset House”) originally belonging to the Duke of Somerset. The present Somerset House was designed by Sir William Chambers, begun in 1776, and was further extended with Victorian…

  • Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews  a new production of STRAIGHT AND NARROW

    Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews a new production of STRAIGHT AND NARROW

    Straight and Narrow    ☆☆☆ Above The Stag Theatre. London   There is something jarring about Straight and Narrow, currently running at the Above the Stag Theatre. Written by Jimmie Chinn and heralding the directorial debut of Mark Curry it takes a moment to realize what it is. Set in the 1980s and first performed…

  • Miss Richfield 1981 and her Twenty Summers in Ptown

    Miss Richfield 1981 and her Twenty Summers in Ptown

      It has become something of an annual treat for Queerguru to sit down with the indomitable Miss Richfield 1981 even though she is not averse to aiming a few barbs at us, We went to talk about her brand-new show, “Cancel Cultured Pearls”, which is a guide to surviving our sensitive, new world. She’s…

  • Randy Roberts : You Need Us To Make The USA

    Randy Roberts : You Need Us To Make The USA

        In Randy Robert’s latest show “One Of The Girls who’s One Of The Boys‘ he knocks it out of the ballpark with his excellent impersonations of the likes of Joan Rivers and of course his fabulous Cher.  However, for Queerguru the show goes to an even higher plane when he’s performing as himself…