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Jonny Ward reviews Matt Franco’s performance piece that asks if men can be both masculine and feminine
Alpha Who ☆☆☆ Cockpit Theatre, London Alpha Who? is a one man show billed as an exploration of masculinity and vulnerability and we are certainly taken on a journey of angst and rage of the inner psyche of the protagonist played by writer/performer Matt Franco. He comes on backlit, stripped to the waist, a vision…
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Andrew Scott IS Noel Coward in this sparkling revival of PRESENT LAUGHTER at London’s Old Vic
PRESENT LAUGHTER ☆☆☆☆ THE OLD VIC, LONDON There is no hotter actor in the UK at the moment than the openly gay Irish Andrew Scott. His recent portrayal of the love interest priest for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character in the wildly popular and critically acclaimed Fleabag has shot Scott to the top. He appears…
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KD Lang : ‘Ingenue’ 25 years On
K.D. Lang is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her album “Ingenue” by completing a thirteen date UK and Ireland tour. It was an occasion that Queerguru simply couldn’t pass up on, so we sent Jonny Ward , our Contributing Editor and very own ‘ingenue’ to go check it out when K.D. made it to…
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Jonathan Kemp reviews THE VIEW UPSTAIRS at Soho Theatre, London
The View UpStairs ☆☆☆ Soho Theatre, London The real life event forming the basis and inspiration for this musical is the arson attack in 1973 on a queer bar in New Orleans, killing 32 people (mostly gay men); woefully underreported at the time due to strong levels of societal homophobia. In 1973, 7 out…
