London Theatre
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Kevin Elyot’s classic gay play Coming Clean is revived in London
Coming Clean Kevin Elyot’s (My Night with Reg, Clapham Junction‘) award-winning 1982 play about the breakdown of a gay couple’s relationship opens this week at London’s Trafalgar Studios. Our London Correspondent JONNY WARD will be there to see this new revival Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the artistic director of the King’s Head Theatre, so check back here to…
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Good time and bum times, Patti LuPone is Still Here
Still wowing audiences in London’s West End is Marianne Elliot’s gender-bender version of Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical Company. Rosalie Craig stars as Bobbie who’s been transplanted from a bachelor into a bachelorette and her co-star (as Joanna) is the two time Tony Winner Patti LuPone who gets to sing the show stopper ‘I’m…
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Jonny Ward’s ☆☆☆☆ review of ALADDIN : ‘a great night out’
A Lad In Soho ☆☆☆☆ Karma Sanctum Hotel The basement room of a mid range hotel in London’s Soho is not the first place you would expect to find a raucous gay panto. For those not from the UK, firstly an explanation of the British eccentricity that is Pantomime. Its roots go back to Victorian…
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Jonathan Kemp’s ☆☆☆☆☆ of Peter Groom’s “truly magical” Dietrich: Natural Duty
Peter Groom, Dietrich: Natural Duty ☆☆☆☆☆ Wilton’s Music Hall, London What is the enduring appeal of Marlene Dietrich? What makes her still so bewitching? Especially to queers? Peter Groom’s one (wo)man show Dietrich: Natural Duty, currently on at Wilton’s Music Hall in East London, certainly goes some way to answering that. The ethereal beauty,…
