Dynamic, compelling and exceptionally moving, Small Town Boys is an award-winning piece of dance-theatre that uses a different lens to examine the experience of queer people during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the UK. Photo credit: Maria Falconer The audience enter and are immediately transported to an 80s nightclub, full of joy and... Continue Reading →
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink (Underbelly Bristo Square) ★★★★
Following its acclaimed Off-Broadway run, Cecilia Gentili's Red Ink bursts on to the Edinburgh stage, starring Chiquitita as the legendary trans activist and truth teller. Chiquitita in Cecilia Gentili's Red Ink. Photo credit: Oscar Diaz Cecilia Gentili's legacy lives on in both her autobiographical play and her chosen family. Originally from Argentina, she first travelled... Continue Reading →
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: FLUSH (Pleasance Courtyard) ★★★★
Set in a trio of bathroom stalls in a Shoreditch nightclub, FLUSH explores the universal experience of women and female presenting people, from gossipy exchanges to heartfelt moments. Partnered with UK non-profit "Ask For Angela", April Hope Miller's debut play is both comedic and compelling, highlighting the light and dark sides of everyday connections. (L-R)... Continue Reading →
Sydney’s 12th annual Queer Screen Film Festival launches full lineup
Sydney's Queer Screen Film Festival returns for its 12th annual edition to inject some colour and heat into the wintry southern hemisphere nights. From August 27th to 31st, the festival will present a curated selection of new queer cinema from around the world, including 14 Australian premieres. “It is an exciting new chapter for Queer... Continue Reading →
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: How to Win Against History (Udderbelly) ★★★
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Henry Cyril Paget's birth, How to Win Against History returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a production that is daring, dazzling and diamante-studded. Photo Credit: Pamela Raith Photography This camp musical romp tells the story of Paget's life, from childhood to becoming the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, and ending... Continue Reading →
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: Count Dykula (Pleasance Dome) ★★★ / Lesbian Space Crime (Pleasance Dome) ★★★★
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 →
Jordan Tannahill’s majestic play Prince Faggot returns to New York this fall
Following its sold-out, three-times-extended Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons' intimate Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Jordan Tannahill's majestic play Prince Faggot will return to New York this fall. The world premiere production—presented by bb² (Jeremy O. Harris and Josh Godfrey), Seaview, LD Entertainment, Playwrights Horizons, and Soho Rep—will transfer to Studio Seaview (305 W 43rd Street), Seaview’s new Off-Broadway home, from September 11th... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Pirates! The Penzance Musical (Todd Haimes Theatre, Broadway) ★★★★
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 →
Royally f***ed – Theatre Review: Prince F*ggot (Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway) ★★★★★
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 →
Exclusive Interview: Trailblazing trans athletes Clayton Jay Reeves & Jenson Little compete on American Ninja Warrior season 17
Now in its 17th season, NBC's American Ninja Warrior brings together the country’s most elite athletes to conquer the world’s most challenging obstacle courses. Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila are back, along with co-host Zuri Hall, to call the action as the ninjas take on the intense competition. The athletes head to Las Vegas for... Continue Reading →
