Loud, proud and in your face - it is time to meet The Cockettes. Birthed in the era of free love and flower power, this flamboyant group of misfits are back to give Edinburgh audiences a San Francisco slice of queer history. Photo credit: Damian Robertson Founded by "Hibiscus" (a.k.a. George Harris), most recognisable for... Continue Reading →
In the Paris of the 1880s, Dr Jean Martin Charcot is studying hysteria at the Salpêtrière Hospital. Despite being a condition that affects all genders, Charcot and his contempories focus on the female patients, attempting to prove their theories about the "four stages of madness", exhibiting the women and having them "perform" for the public.... Continue Reading →
Since the UK made the decision to Brexit, it has become far more difficult for migrants to make a life in Britain. Presenting the pitfalls in the style of Eurovision-meets-Miss-World, Miss Brexit is a heartfelt political satire that showcases the harsh realities with wit and humour. Photo credit: Jake Bush What does it take for... Continue Reading →
When people talk about intersectionality, they are not usually thinking of a crossover between mental illness, physical illness, gender identity and sexuality. In Hayley Edwards' debut one-person play, they explore all this and more, facing the shitty stuff and learning how to advocate for themself in the process. Photo Credit: Nick Mick Have you ever... Continue Reading →
This comedic double bill from Airlock Theatre provides a one-two punch of queer musical theatre at its very campest. Eleanor Colville and Rosanna Suppa in Lesbian Space Crime. Photo credit: Alex Brenner Written and performed by Eleanor Colville, Rosanna Suppa and Robbie Taylor Hunt, Count Dykula and Lesbian Space Crime are both camp musical romps,... Continue Reading →
Before the curtain rises on Roundabout Theatre Company's spirited reimagining of The Pirates of Penzance, there is an engagingly meta introduction by the operetta's composer Arthur Sullivan (Preston Truman Boyd) and librettist W. S. Gilbert (David Hyde Pierce). Their charmingly affable preamble is largely based on historical fact about the numerous pirated stagings of their... Continue Reading →
In "an act of queer prognostication", playwright Jordan Tannahill's majestic new work Prince Faggot conjures a near future (2030s-40s) where a member of the British Royal Family—Prince George—not only publicly comes out, but gets married to a man. It is a premise inspired by the viral "gay icon" photograph of a four-year-old George back in... Continue Reading →
No, Bear Grease—currently running Off-Broadway at St. Luke's Theatre—is not a gay version of the iconic high school musical set during P'Town Bear Week. It's actually the New York premiere of the infectiously exuberant, all-Indigenous, loving parody remix of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's 1950s-set classic, which has already played over 200 performances across North... Continue Reading →
On November 29th, 2006 The New York Post published a photograph of Naughties pop culture icons Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton sitting in the front of a car together in Beverly Hills. "Bimbo Summit", the first edition headline sneered, which was later revised to "3 Bimbos of the Apocalypse" for the tabloid's evening... Continue Reading →
As playwright-performer Ryan J. Haddad's latest one-person show Hold Me in the Water opens, with Haddad emerging on stage with dramatic flare from a trap door wearing a dazzling sequined blazer, he runs over some housekeeping at Playwrights Horizons' Off-Broadway Judy Theater. Which is named after neither Garland nor Haddad's mother, he playfully explains. Every... Continue Reading →
