London
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The Art of Drag : a 10 week Performer Course to set you on the path to stardom
Back in 2015 Brit Drag Act, Cabaret Host, and Actor Michael Twaits, Host of Prides Got Talent, had the inspired idea of starting The Art of Drag a 10-week drag performers course. Twaits told Queerguru “The Art Of Drag isn’t about teaching. It’s creating a space that is non-competitive to start exploring performance and…
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ALICE NEEL: HOT OF THE GRIDDLE a major retrospective at London’s Barbican
London’s Barbican Gallery has just opened a major retrospective of the stunning work of the American feminist visual painter ALICE NEEL called Hot Off The Griddle. Neel was known for her vivid portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers that capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century. Crowned…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews WINDFALL ‘a jack-in-the-box comedy’ @ Southwark Playhouse, London
Windfall ★★★★ Southwark Playhouse Borough Windfall is a jack-in-the-box of a comedy, but in the first half, you don’t know it. It unwinds in an amusing but restrained way with glimpses of something more compelling beneath the surface, then in the second half, it leaps out at you. A manic, blade-wielding clown from a…
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Howerd’s End : the story of one of the UK’s (closeted) gay icons
In the 1960s and 1970s comedian Frankie Howerd was one of the major stars of British Television. He was also like many performers of that time a closeted homosexual, as coming out then was considered professional suicide. Homosexuality was still illegal in the UK until the law changed in 1969 but it still took several…
