LGBT+
Album: 100 gecs - 10,000 gecsSaturday, 18 March 2023If popular music is dead and done and there’s nowhere left to go, rising duo 100 gecs, from St Louis, Missouri, are here to prove there’s still deranged fun to be had cannibalising the corpse. The second album from the pair, both in their late... Read more... |
Joyland review - a tender tragedySaturday, 25 February 2023Partially banned in Pakistan, Saim Sadiq’s debut uses a young man’s affair with a trans woman to reveal the sadness and brutality of the nation’s patriarchal norms. It’s also a deeply sympathetic character study written from under the country’s skin... Read more... |
Linck & Mülhahn, Hampstead Theatre review - problems as well as pleasuresWednesday, 08 February 2023With the total loss of its Arts Council funding, Hampstead Theatre’s future as a specialist new writing venue is in doubt. But before anything drastically changes, the playwrights and plays developed by Roxanna Silbert, who was edged out as artistic... Read more... |
Sound of the Underground, Royal Court review - loud and triumphantly proudMonday, 30 January 2023Ever been to a queer club? You know, drag cabaret night at Madame Jojo’s, or the Black Cap or Her Upstairs. No? Well, not to worry – the Royal Court’s latest provides a fabulously extravagant simulation of the experience with its staging of Sound of... Read more... |
As You Like It, @sohoplace review - music-filled, warm-hearted celebrationFriday, 16 December 2022The scene is set onstage in the first minutes. And it remains a stage throughout this harmonious production. The action takes place in a severe court and a more liberal forest, but really the setting is always a place of imagination, a theatre.... Read more... |
Album: Christeene - Midnite Fukk TrainFriday, 18 November 2022Christeene is not so much a musical entity, as a performative assault, an artist who pushes drag somewhere visceral, caustic, wilfully edgy and defiantly unpolished. The creation of New York-based, Louisiana-raised Paul Soileau, her videos and shows... Read more... |
Something in the Air, Jermyn Street Theatre review - evocative London mood musicTuesday, 25 October 2022As its title suggests, Peter Gill’s Something in the Air is an elusive piece – it’s about catching at instinct, responding to intuition, bringing together overlapping hints of present and past lives. From these different stories, spun out of lived... Read more... |
The Doctor, Duke of York's Theatre review - Juliet Stevenson will see you nowMonday, 10 October 2022Robert Icke is an expert in corporate tragedy. I don’t mean that in a bad way - just that he has a penchant for taking classics (Hamlet, The Oresteia, Mary Stuart) and transporting them, with the help of designer Hildegard Bechtler, to the frosted-... Read more... |
Bright Half Life, Kings Head Theatre review - ups and downs of a tender lesbian love affairMonday, 19 September 2022A tender love story has arrived at the Kings Head theatre from the US, where its author, Tanya Barfield, is an award-winning playwright for both television and theatre. The plot is simple: two women — one white, one Black — meet in an office where... Read more... |
The P Word, Bush Theatre review - persecution and prideSaturday, 17 September 2022Britain is a divided nation, but one of the divisions that we don’t hear that much about is that between Pakistani gay men. Written by Waleed Akhtar (who also stars in this impressively heartfelt two-hander), The P Word is about the differences in... Read more... |
Who Killed My Father, Young Vic review - Hans Kesting excels in this solo showFriday, 09 September 2022A bare interior with tarnished walls, a single bed, and an oxygen tube. The stage seems to have been set for a Beckett play, but the figure who comes to inhabit this dejected enclosure for 90 minutes is grounded in a far different world.Powerful... Read more... |
Album: Beyoncé - RenaissanceMonday, 01 August 2022There’s polarising discourse and there’s polarising discourse, and then there’s Beyoncé discourse. On the one hand, there’s “the Bey Hive”: the very model of a furious modern fandom who will boost her and monster her critics at a microsecond’s... Read more... |