THEATRE REVIEW | Casa Valentina – The best show in London about Transvestites
There’s a house in the Catskill mountains in upstate New York where several men go to dress up in women’s clothing. It’s also a new play by Harvey Fierstein called […]
THEATRE REVIEW | The White Feather
A New British Musical written by Ross Clark and directed by Andrew Keates ★★★★★ Union Theatre is a poky, spit-and-sawdust kinda playhouse. Once you’ve walked through the patio, you’ll be […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Kinky Boots, Adelphi Theatre, London
★★★ | Kinky Boots, London It’s a huge hit on Broadway and it’s now finally opened in London. ‘Kinky Boots’ is in the house! If the name rings a bell, it’s […]
THEATRE REVIEW | McQueen, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
Crass yob or fashion god? Both, actually. All bile, venom and spunk, Alexander McQueen was a mutant oik messiah, a sartorial serial-killer maniacally slashing mediocrity into mouth-watering magnificence. ★★★★ But […]
Transformer: A Night With Lou Reed At Soho Theatre, Polymorphous Perversity
Does gay culture have Alzheimer’s or rather, collective amnesia? Sure, for straight, non-artistic philistines Jonny Woo seems ground-breaking, but truthfully, he’s one rich link in a historically brilliant chain. ★★★★ […]
THEATRE REVIEW | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Sheffield Lyceum & National Tour
Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old boy, discovers that his neighbour’s dog, Wellington, has been killed by someone (the poor dog having been stabbed with a garden fork), and sets off to […]
THEATRE REVIEW | The Sum Of Us
A father who loves and accepts his gay son is the theme of the new play ‘The Sum of Us.’ ★★★★ In 1994, a young Russell Crowe played the gay […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Dusty, Arrives In London With A Thud
A new musical about Dusty Springfield arrives in the West End – with a thud. ★★ There’s something just not right with ‘Dusty,’ which is playing at the Charing Cross […]
Harvey Fierstein Backs Southwark Show Casa Valentina
Harvey Fierstein, the theatre genius who brought us Torch Song Trilogy and La Cage aux Folles, is the man behind two productions opening concurrently in London. Kinky Boots, a musical […]
THEATRE REVIEW | King Charles III, Birmingham Rep
★★★★ – regally captivating.
Barbra Streisand is coming back to London
Well, it’s not the real Barbra Streisand but the world’s most famous Barbra Streisand impersonator – Steven Brinberg. Brinberg is returning to the lush surroundings of Brasserie Zedel’s Crazy Coqs […]