Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show directed by Sam Pinkleton, a Tony-winner for his work on Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! Roundabout Theatre Company announces the cast for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway directed by Sam Pinkleton. Joining the previously announced British Independent Film... Continue Reading →
Not for the easily offended, or those lacking a sense of humour, Dicks: The Musical—which opened the Midnight Madness section of the 48th Toronto International Film Festival last night—is a delectably outrageous, endlessly kooky, and thrillingly depraved instant queer cult classic. Some movies feel like they are actively trying to achieve cult status, Dicks never... Continue Reading →
This charismatic, coming of age journey is skillfully performed and deftly devised. It challenges the audience to consider how liberals centre themselves in coming-out narratives, and question if tolerance is enough to end systemic oppression. Axel Ingi Árnason and Bjarni Snæbjörnsson in Good Morning, Faggi. Photo Credit: Leifur Wilberg. Good Morning, Faggi is the kind... Continue Reading →
Twenty years after Section 28 was repealed (23 in Scotland), this high-octane, unapologetic musical is here, it's queer, and everybody better get used to it. EM Williams, Tika Mu'tamir and Ellice Stevens in After The Act. Photo Credit: Raymond Davies. Breach Theatre never shy away from challenging subject matter, and find a way to inject... Continue Reading →
Topeka, Kansas-raised Obie Award-winning actor Antwayn Hopper is currently starring on Broadway as Thought 6 in Michael R. Jackson's exhilaratingly meta musical, A Strange Loop. Hopper has been part of the ensemble cast for six years during the show's development ahead of its Tony-winning Broadway run, including appearing in the 2019 Playwrights Horizons Theater production,... Continue Reading →
Before the lights go down at the Lyceum Theatre, a recorded announcement by A Strange Loop's Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, composer and lyricist—Michael R. Jackson—politely reminds us to keep our masks on and to switch off or silence our mobile devices. Theatre etiquette which he says, as a former usher, he finds particularly irksome when ignored.... Continue Reading →
With director Ryan Murphy's joyous queer romantic comedy musical, The Prom, landing on Netflix this Friday December 11th The Queer Review caught up—virtually of course—with the film's stellar ensemble cast and Murphy himself at the recent global press conference. Based on Chad Beguelin, Bob Martin and Matthew Sklar's Tony-nominated Broadway production, the screen adaptation sees... Continue Reading →
