LGBTQ+ Theatre Archives

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors is a delightfully daft take on the classic Gothic horror – review

March 20, 2025 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

We assumed that Titanique was going to be the stupidest show opening in London this year, but it now has stiff competition. Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors has debuted this week at the intimate Menier Chocolate Factory and it’s a delightfully daft re-imagining of Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic horror novel. We’re fairly sure the original text didn’t feature a muscular pansexual protagonist but we’re willing to go with it. Canadian actor James Daly (who played the role when this show premiered in New York) is our titular vampire who makes…

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Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell delight in raucous revival of Much Ado About Nothing – review

February 22, 2025 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

Jamie Lloyd’s revival of The Tempest (starring Sigourney Weaver) has only just closed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and in its place we have his take on another Shakespeare: this time we have a very different play, the lighthearted comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Our guest stars this time around are Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwood. From the moment we entered the theatre we knew we were in for an experience – this is a raucous affair even before the show begins, with dance music blaring and a light…

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Jack Goes to Therapy is a tale told with charm, warmth and good humour – review

January 22, 2025 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

It’s been a little while since we covered a pub theatre show and we thought it was well overdue, so we thought we’d take a trip to Clapham to check out the Bread and Roses Theatre, nestled above the Bread and Roses pub, a short stroll from Clapham High Street. Currently playing is Jack Goes to Therapy, by Zac Williams, which enjoyed a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe last summer. It tells the story of 29-year-old kindergarten teacher Jack, who turns to various people for help – a nurse…

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Firebird tells a fascinating story that should be better known – review

January 16, 2025 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

For those unfamiliar, Firebird is based on Sergey Fetisov’s memoir The Story of Roman, which tells a true tale of forbidden love set during the height of the Cold War. It has already been turned into a film – also called Firebird – and has now been adapted into a stage production, which has opened this week at Islington’s King’s Head Theatre. It tells a fascinating story – one that we feel should be better known – so we’re happy that a wider audience will become familiar with it as…

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“If you can get away with doing this then I’m in!” – KT Tunstall on writing the songs for Clueless the Musical

January 14, 2025 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

It’s 2025, which means classic ‘90s movie Clueless is now 30 years old (ugh, as if). If you’re a fan of the film – and/or a musical theatre aficionado – you may have clocked that a new stage adaptation, Clueless, The Musical, is about to open on London’s West End at the Trafalgar Theatre. We’ve already had a bit of a preview: singer/songwriter KT Tunstall, who has written the music for the show, treated us to a few songs at a private gig at London’s Ham Yard Hotel in the…

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There’s camp and then there’s Titanique, London’s gayest new show – review

January 12, 2025 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

If you thought panto season was over, you’d be wrong. There’s camp, and then there’s the ridiculously flamboyant off-Broadway smash hit Titanique, which has sailed into London for 2025, docking at The Criterion Theatre this week. It’s as if the show’s writers collectively agreed “we’re going to give the gays everything they want” – which of course we’re totally on board with. The concept itself is ludicrous in its own right: this is absolutely not a documentary-style retelling of the Titanic disaster. Instead, it’s a pastiche of the film, told…

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Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper! is a ridiculous high-camp night out – review

December 3, 2024 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

The pantomime is very much a British tradition and within queer theatrical circles this particular pantomime is something of an institution. Now in its second year at the Charing Cross Theatre, it’s put together by the same production team behind the pantomime which ran for many years at the (now sadly defunct) Above the Stag theatre in Vauxhall. We had lots of fun checking out Sleeping Beauty Takes a Prick last year and we were very much looking forward to seeing this year’s offering, Jack and the Beanstalk: What a…

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The Liar, The Bitch and The Wardrobe is an enjoyable swan song for the Turbine Theatre – review

November 30, 2024 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

We’ve been big fans of The Turbine Theatre since it opened in 2019 – it’s been a fantastic space offering a platform for new works, many of which have been LGBTQ+ productions, so we were sad to hear it will soon be closing. The Liar, The Bitch and The Wardrobe will be the theatre’s final production, and it feels like a fitting send off – a queer take on the C. S. Lewis novel of (almost) the same name, this adult panto proves to be a raucous and high-camp night…

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The Rocky Horror Show is a riotous night out – review

September 14, 2024 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

This may come as a surprise, given the musical is now more than 50 years old, but we’ve never actually seen the Rocky Horror Show. As such, we didn’t quite know what to expect from this production, which has opened at London’s Dominion Theatre this week, and which will tour the UK through to summer 2025. Turns out it’s actually really good fun – this trip to the theatre was one of the most riotous nights out we’ve had in a while. We should caveat this by saying that the…

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Why Am I So Single? is a fun new queer musical with great songs – review