Tony nominee Jonathan Groff, who can currently be seen on Netflix as FBI Agent Holden Ford in the second season of David Fincher’s Mindhunter, will star as Seymour in the Off-Broadway return of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s landmark musical Little Shop of Horrors. The complete cast for the production opening this fall at the Westside Theatre has just been announced.... Continue Reading →
Organisers of the Iris Prize have announced the 36 short films competing at the 2019 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. The winning director will be presented with £30,000 to make their next short film in the UK, supported by the Michael Bishop Foundation. 2019 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival “This impressive shortlist represents the very best... Continue Reading →
The Broadway cast has been announced for the acclaimed gay themed two-part play by Matthew Lopez The Inheritance, which won the 2019 Olivier Award for Best New Play, as well as being honoured in the same category with an Evening Standard Award and London Critics Circle Award. Directed by Stephen Daldry, the Broadway production will... Continue Reading →
The 57th New York Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman on 27th September 2019. This year's festival runs until 13th October. Based on Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses, Scorsese’s The Irishman features Joe Pesci as Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino, Al Pacino as Teamsters... Continue Reading →
The World Premiere of Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, Daniel Roher’s documentary focusing on Robertson and the creation of The Band, will open the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Thursday 5th September. Inspired by Robertson’s 2016 memoir, Testimony, the film blends rare archival footage, photos, songs, and interviews with many of Robertson’s friends and... Continue Reading →
The nominations for the 71st Emmy Awards were announced in Los Angeles this morning by Ken Jeong and D'Arcy Carden. HBO's Game of Thrones led with 32, the highest number of nominations for the same show in 2019, making it the second most nominated program in the Emmy Awards' 71 year history with a total... Continue Reading →
The Bank of England announced today that the pioneering gay scientist Alan Turing will be the face of the new £50 note, the first printed on polymer. Alan Turing £50 Banknote Concept Involving the public in the initial selection process, the Bank of England revealed that they received 227,299 nominations for 989 different scientists during... Continue Reading →
Jeremy O. Harris, the multi-award-winning writer of one of our favourite plays of the year Daddy, sees his much-acclaimed previously produced work Slave Play transfer to Broadway's Golden Theatre. Originally produced at the New York Theatre Workshop, Slave Play is the winner of the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, The Lotos Foundation Prize... Continue Reading →
[N.B. Contains Potential Pose Season 2 Spoiler] Pose viewers bid a heartbreaking farewell to Angelica Ross's character Candy last night in an episode of the groundbreaking series that highlighted the widespread violence against trans women of colour that continues to this day in the USA. Pose creator Ryan Murphy, who directed last night's episode, took... Continue Reading →
