Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterCOMING CLEAN ☆☆☆☆ Trafalgar Studios There was a time, long, long ago, when the possibility of gay marriage was not yet a twinkle in even the most optimistic gay mans eye. Indeed from the birth of the gay rights movement in the 60’s right through to the 80’s and the Aids crisis , gay … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterComing 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 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterStill 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 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterA 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 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterPeter 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, … Continue reading
