Tag: theater review
Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews DECLAN a contemporary ghost story
DECLAN ☆☆☆ Online (via The Actors Centre) Set in a Wiltshire suburb, Declan is a contemporary ghost story, exploring isolation, fear of the outside world and the distance between two friends. As Jimbo recalls the disappearance of his best friend Declan, he is plagued by ghosts of the past, present and future, and the…
Taming The Lion : the true story of the first openly gay Hollywood Star
Taming The Lion ☆☆☆☆☆ Theater 40, Beverley Hills. Jack Rushen’s ‘Taming The Lion’ is the true story of of the contentious relationship between movie mogul Louis B. Mayer, and the first openly gay star, William Haines. Although he’s largely forgotten today, actor William Haines was one of Hollywood’s top leading men of the silent…
SUNDAY DINNER in Beverly Hills where there is more on the menu than anyone expected
SUNDAY DINNER ☆☆☆☆ Theatre 40 Walking up to Theatre 40 which is tucked in to Beverly Hills High School to see writer and director Tony Blake’s Sunday Dinner makes you feel like you are in an episode of 90210. It is quintessential Beverly Hills and we were all the way there for it. The…
Queerguru reviews a spirited revival of Mike Bartlett’s award winning COCK at Beverly Hills Playhouse
COCK ☆☆☆ & 1/2 The Beverley PLayhouse, Los Angeles The Beverly Playhouse was the perfect intimate space for an intriguing revival of Mike Bartlett’s award-winning play COCK that was first produced by The Royal Court Theatre in London in 2009 Cock involves a main character, John (Miles Cooper) one half of a gay…
Queerguru’s Jonny Ward cries his way through the UK Premiere of FALSETTOS
FALSETTOS ☆☆☆☆ THE OTHER PALACE THEATRE, LONDON This revival of the two-time Tony Award winning Falsettos is a truly funny but poignant examination of the dynamics of an alternative family revolving around the life of a Jewish gay man Marvin (Daniel Boys), his wife (Laura Pitt-Pulford), his lover (Oliver Savile), his soon to be bar…
