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 […]
THEATRE REVIEW | King Charles III, Birmingham Rep
★★★★ – regally captivating.
THEATRE REVIEW | F*cking Men
I was all set in my mind to hate this; I imagined it being hammy, awkward and amateur. It was, after all, a play about gay sex lives to be […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Musical
With just the right balance of charm, smarm and quintessential Englishness, Michael Praed plays Lawrence Jameson, a con man who spends his time in the French Riviera swindling money from […]