Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics launches Dorian Theater Awards to honor Broadway & Off-Broadway

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced this week that it is expanding its mission to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, across a variety of inaugural categories, beginning with the 2022-2023 theater season. Following GALECA’s established Dorian film and TV honors, its Dorian Theater Awards will celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+ themed productions. While... Continue Reading →

April 28, 2023 1

Exclusive Interview: “it’s sexy, ludicrous & it’ll make you think” – Lewis Treston on his Austen-inspired comedy Hubris & Humiliation at Sydney Theatre Company

In a crowded WorldPride 2023 cultural calendar, one of the hottest tickets in town is the world premiere of Hubris and Humiliation by Lewis Treston at Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf Theatre, previewing from January 20th. A gay rom-com inspired by the work of Jane Austen, the play sees young Elliot being sent from Brisbaine to... Continue Reading →

January 14, 2023 2

Theatre Review: Queer As Flux (Sydney Opera House Studio) ★★★1/2

Following acclaimed runs at Brisbane Powerhouse and The Blue Room Theatre, Zac Callaghan’s one-person show, Queer As Flux, finally hits Sydney highlighting how all of us, as individuals and as a culture, are constantly in flux, transitioning, and becoming something new. When you come to think of it, perhaps we're all a bit trans. In... Continue Reading →

November 27, 2022 0

Theatre Review: Fat Ham (Public Theater, New York) ★★★★★

UPDATE: Fat Ham's strictly limited 14-Week engagement at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway has just been announced, with performances beginning Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 and officially opening on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023. While Michael R. Jackson's 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop is enjoying a hit run on Broadway—and is deservedly the most... Continue Reading →

May 27, 2022 1

Theatre Review: Triple X (Sydney Theatre Company) ★★★★1/2

Glace Chase’s play, Triple X, has finally hit the Sydney Theatre Company mainstage and it has been well worth the elongated wait. Fresh, complex, and hugely entertaining, this exploration of the love between a cis man and trans woman quickly demolishes your expectations and takes you on a ride filled with ethical backflips, emotional diversions,... Continue Reading →

January 12, 2022 1

Exclusive Interview: Composer Paul Englishby on his music for The Inheritance “my feeling was that the music should gently put it’s arm around the audience”

With Matthew Lopez's multi-Olivier winning The Inheritance now in its final weeks on Broadway The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann spoke exclusively with composer Paul Englishby about creating the play's achingly beautiful music. Scoring for theatre, film, television, dance and opera, Englishby is perhaps best known for his BAFTA-nominated work on BBC's Luther starring Idris Elba. His jazz inflected... Continue Reading →

February 25, 2020 1

Theatre Review: The Inheritance (Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York) ★★★★★

Matthew Lopez’s Best Play Olivier award-winning The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, has arrived on Broadway following last year’s highly acclaimed production at London’s Young Vic and its West End transfer, with many of the original cast. Inspired by E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End, the epic two-part play examines multigenerational gay life in New... Continue Reading →

December 7, 2019 9

Some personal thoughts on The Inheritance

One may as well start with the Young Vic’s emails to its mailing list (my God, how many articles about The Inheritance have started with variations on that line). Back in 2017 when Angels In America (starring Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield) was playing at the National Theatre, the Young Vic was announcing the last... Continue Reading →

November 16, 2019 0

John Cameron Mitchell presents Entertaining Mr Sloane in 35mm at The Quad

As part of New York's LGBTQ film festival NewFest's monthly Coming Out Again series at The Quad cinema, filmmaker and actor John Cameron Mitchell will present director Douglas Hickox's 1970 dark comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane, based on the play by Joe Orton. Mitchell, who can be seen in the new Hulu series Shrill, describes Sloane on the Quad... Continue Reading →

March 16, 2019 0