Young, hot and strapped for cash, Sugar is looking for love in all the wrong places. Skillfully performed and multi-layered, this is confessional cabaret at its very sweetest. Photo Credit: Meagan Harding Bursting with youthful exuberance and a knowing smile, Tomáš Kantor takes to the stage full of attitude and sassy vocals. A self-confessed "genderqueer... Continue Reading →
Full to the brim with catchy tunes, comedic lines and almost through-sung, Darby James' Little Squirt is the perfect offspring of solo theatre and cabaret. You might expect a one-man-musical about sperm donation to be full of smutty seaman gags - and you would be right. What is unexpected about Little Squirt, however, is how... Continue Reading →
If you put down your knitting, your book—and yes—your broom and make your way to New York's August Wilson Theatre right now (and likely for some years to come) you will find that it has been transformed into the Kit Kat Club for the latest revival (its fifth on Broadway) of composer John Kander and... Continue Reading →
The Pet Shop Boys have a key place in pop music through the 80s, 90s, and 00s. With hits like "Go West", "Left to My Own Devices", Rent", and "Absolutely Fabulous" becoming queer anthems, their synth-pop lit up gay club dancefloors and inspired generations of LGBTQ+ artists (with Russell T Davies' hit TV series taking... Continue Reading →
Written and performed by Michael Trauffer, Fabulett 1933 invites the audience to join him in a pre-war Berin cabaret club. A vital exploration of queer history, this is an important piece, created and presented with sincerity and heart. Michael Trauffer in Fabulett 1933. Photo credit: Georgina Bolton King. Starting with some archival footage, and introduced... Continue Reading →
This Pride Month the Criterion Channel is showcasing the Oscar-winning work of filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman with the eight film collection, Pride and Protest. In 1977, Friedman, who was working as an assistant editor in New York, was struck by the power of queer filmmakers putting queer lives on screen when he encountered... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the programmers of Sundance's New Frontiers section for giving me the best night out I've had since last March (without having to leave my apartment or get out of my pyjamas) with creator-writer-star Jibz Cameron and director Mariah Garnett's Weirdo Night. Acknowledging, but not dwelling on, the lack of audience in the room... Continue Reading →
Seemingly answering the question, "what ever happened to Breathless Mahoney?", Ty Jeffries' alter ego is back in Scotland's capital and as unapologetic as ever. A tight hour of classic cabaret, with lines that are witty interspersing tragicomic ditties, Miss Springs' pared-down show is just her, a keyboard and a LOT of sequins and feathers.
