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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews Leo Woodall’S star turn with Dustin Hoffman in ‘TUNER ‘
The last time I saw Leo Woodall in anything, he was providing ‘services’ for his gay ‘uncle’ in the second season of ‘The White Lotus’ (that’s as queer-adjacent as this review gets, by the way). In director Daniel Roher’s ‘Tuner’, Leo plays Niki White, a piano tuner and apprentice to the increasingly frail and foggy-minded…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Jerker’, a powerful play from mid-1980s San Francisco @ London´s Waterloo East Theatre.
Jerker takes us to mid-1980s San Francisco, a fraught time for the city when it was being torn apart by the AIDS crisis, a time when there was little knowledge about, or treatment for, the disease. Robert Chelsey´s 1986 play was first performed 40 years ago, in San Francisco, and remains as powerful, fearful, sexy,…
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Behind the Lens: Lawrence Schiller : a new exhibit @ Melissa Morgan FIne Art
If you need just one reason to visit Palm Desert, it’s not any of its 30 golf courses (!) or its own version of Rodeo Drive (as if), but Melissa Morgan’s Fine Art Gallery. Since 2002, it has made a remarkable impact on artists and collectors alike, and every now and then they put on…
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Andrew Scott plays a therapist who gets very ‘hands on’ in ‘It Gets Worse’
We were so wrapped up in watching Andrew Scott’s Oscar-worthy performance starring in the highly anticipated Elsinore at the BFI Film Festival that we almost overlooked his other performance that weekend. The openly gay Irish actor Scott (Handsome Devil, “All of Us Strangers“) stars in It Gets Worse, playing a therapist opposite series creator and…
