This week on my Twitter feed it's a rainy Pride weekend, and there's a bumper crop of mental Google searches sending people to my other blog ( Read more... )

After last year's Robin Hood - Queen of Thieves Andy, Evil Alex, Vanessa and I returned to Above The Stag for this year's adult pantomime, and this time brought Richard and Penny with us (Evil Alex's other half was also meant to come along but he couldn't make it at the last minute.) Writers Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper return for Sleeping ( Read more... )

This week on my Twitter feed there's some more gubbins about dentists, Joanna Lumley gets a bit confused about the difference between reality and fiction, and my mum gives Vanessa Redgrave the Evil Eye ( Read more... )

Considered one of the great classics of lesbian theatre, Frank Marcus' 1965 black comedy The Killing of Sister George is revived at the Arts Theatre as part of the "Drama at the Arts" season¹. Although their motivation for doing so is a bit unclear from the programme notes, which suggest that the play's main cultural significance lies in ( Read more... )

With nowhere else in London currently focusing on gay theatre Above The Stag is kinda carrying the torch, and I still think they're much more in their element when producing campy fun but they continue to try for more issue-based fare as well. A double bill of short plays with a shared theme of people who were abused as children becoming fucked up ( Read more... )

First in the "something nice for Friday" stakes today, a bit of an "awwww" story that you've probably seen by now but if you haven't, this sweet post by a mum whose 6-year-old son has a crush on Blaine from Glee; yes, as some people have said it is a bit self-congratulatory but that's a lot better than the alternative. And I like that the parents' ( Read more... )

Oops, nearly forgot to do my weekly Twitter roundup. I'm sure the world would have imploded if I hadn't. This week on my feed, I comment snarkily on Pride, and my eyes and ears are assaulted by Cher Lloyd's video ( Read more... )

So it was Pride again yesterday, and Evil Alex and I seem to have settled on a pattern for how to celebrate the day: Watch the parade, while definitely not treating "who can get more stickers on them" as a competition, oh no:

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There's a few months to go yet before Shakespeare's Globe launches its new season, but the last time they mailed out some info they included a flyer for a production of Edward II round the corner, at the archaeological site of the original Rose theatre - the same place where Christopher Marlowe's play was first performed. As the three regular ( Read more... )

Above The Stag, the theatre above a gay pub that produces almost exclusively gay-related plays, has a pretty good track record where silly fun is concerned, what with its hit annual panto, and last year's Silence of the Lambs musical. I've always found it to be on shakier ground when it attempts something a bit more serious though. It was largely ( Read more... )