culture
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New documentary on talented but tortured WHITNEY HOUSTON
Hot on the heels of Nick Broomfield’s doc Whitney Can I Be Me which debuted on Showtime TV last summer, comes yet another profile of Whitney Houston, the talented but troubled singer. Simply called Whitney and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin MacDonald, who previously helmed Marley, this is an attempt to unravel the mystery behind “The Voice,”…
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Matthew Bourne’s brilliant ballet SWAN LAKE is BACK
The multi-award winning openly gay British choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne first staged his male version of SWAN LAKE at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London in 1995. Overnight it converted thousands of unsuspecting men and women everywhere into balletomanes. It became the longest running ballet in London’s West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best…
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Another Kind of Life
There is still a month left to see the stunning new exhibition at the Barbican Gallery that we were so fortunate to catch on a recent trip to London. Another Kind of Life follows the lives of individuals and communities operating on the fringes of society : a subject dear to our hearts. Touching on themes of countercultures, subcultures…
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Velma Takes The Stand
Following sell-out performances in Australia, drag sensation Velma Celliis is about to start the UK tour of her stunning show Iconic – A Brief History of Drag, but before she started packing her suitcases she called us from London via Facetime to get us all worked up about ‘Iconic.’ The interview with Roger Walker-Dack was filmed for www.queergurutv.com
