London
Un-Royal Variety Show
There is a very quaint British theatrical tradition that was started in 1912 for King George V to help raise funds for Variety Artistes’ Benevolent Fund and is still going strong today. Originally called The Royal Command Show implying that all the Acts had been asked to perform by the King himself, it later morphed into…
Dapper Dougie Fields : a true English Eccentric
71 year old conceptual artist Duggie Fields is a quintessential English eccentric who cuts a very dashing figure in London’s creative community. Artist, fashion icon and muse, Comme Des Garcons runway model, queer activist, and designer who has been making his own very definite kind of waves since his first exhibition when he was just…
The Glamorous Miss Hope Springs
Miss Hope Springs is like a breath of fresh air. A decidedly old-fashioned drag performer and chanteuse who looks and sounds worlds apart from the frenetic contestants of Ru Paul’s hit TV Show, yet who has become the darling of London’s cabaret circuit since she started singing her original songs and telling her gentle off-key…
The Boys In The Band is Back
Two years shy of its 5oth Anniversary, Mart Crowley’s ground-breaking play The Boys In The Band has been revived for a run in London’s Park Theatre. Originally opening off-Broadway just a year before the Stonewall riots which would signal a major shift in the start of the the first throes of ‘gay liberation, although the…
