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It’s A Sin star Nathaniel Hall to debut new show Toxic at Home Manchester – interview

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We’re big fans of Nathaniel Hall here – he was, of course, star of our screens in Russell T Davies’ hit show It’s A Sin, playing the role of boyfriend Donald opposite Olly Alexander’s Richie. We interviewed Nathaniel later in 2021 following the success of that TV show and ahead of the tour of his own play First Time, which we reviewed last year. Later this month, Nathaniel will return with his new play, Toxic, which is scheduled to open at Home Manchester on Wednesday 18th October. When we meet…

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“People are coming to the show and adding new levels of queer joy” – David Cumming on West End hit Operation Mincemeat

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Ah, Operation Mincemeat. We adore this show: we reviewed the Southwark Playhouse run in 2021, the Riverside Studios production in 2022, and we checked out the West End opening earlier this year, awarding each performance a perfect 5/5. Shortly before the West End premiere, we took an opportunity to interview SpitLip, the creative team who put the show together and nurtured it over several years, taking it from an early incarnation as a two-song scratch production at the Lowry in Salford, through to the glitzy West End show that’s recently…

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The Globe’s queer take on As You Like It is surprisingly traditional – review

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We had high hopes for this new take on As You Like It – featuring a host of LGBTQ+ talent and created by the same team behind Sound of the Underground at the Royal Court Theatre earlier this year, we were anticipating something fabulous, queer and unexpected. Some of the text has been tweaked to include contemporary lines added by Travis Alabanza; the costumes, which at first glance appear conventional, feature an array of modern accessories; the music utilises some recent pop songs. But none of it feels particularly radical…

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“I realised that I’d never seen two black men kiss on stage” – director Anthony Simpson-Pike on revival of Beautiful Thing

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We’re looking forward to the 30th anniversary revival of Jonathan Harvey’s classic queer play Beautiful Thing, which opens for previews at the Theatre Royal Stratford East later this week, and will move onto the Leeds Playhouse and HOME Manchester later this autumn. Ahead of the show’s opening, we caught up with director Anthony Simpson-Pike – who recently directed Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors at the National Theatre – to find out a bit more about this new production. For those unfamiliar, Beautiful Thing is a seminal piece of queer…

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La Cage aux Folles is a truly wonderful piece of theatre full of queer joy – review

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We’ve been waiting a long time to see La Cage aux Folles – this is the first major production London has seen since the 2008 West End revival – and we had to wait even longer than anticipated, as last week’s press night was sadly rained off after about 45 minutes. Thankfully we were able to make a return visit to the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre earlier this week to review the show and it fully lived up to expectations – this production is a truly wonderful piece of…

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“It’s about real gay people who’ve lived real lives” – stars of La Cage aux Folles on the show’s major London revival

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La Cage aux Folles may be a name many of us are familiar with – it’s an iconic queer musical, with music by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, which has given us queer anthem ‘I Am What I Am’. However, many of us may not have had an opportunity to actually see the show; while there have been a number of smaller touring productions, the last major London revival was way back in 2008 (the production subsequently transferring to Broadway in 2010). We’re excited that a revival of…

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Will Young hits the right notes in delicate study of grief Song From Far Away – review

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We’ve seen Will Young on the stage twice before, in the musicals Cabaret and Strictly Ballroom. Song From Far Away is something altogether different; for starters it’s a play, not a musical, although there are a few snippets of singing. It’s a slight show – clocking in at just 80 minutes, it’s a monologue from Will, playing the character of Willem, a gay man in his 30s living in Manhattan who receives the news that his brother has died suddenly and unexpectedly. What unfolds is a delicate study of grief,…

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All-Male production of The Mikado is a camp comedic delight – review

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We’ve been to check out a couple of Sasha Regan’s all-male productions of Gilbert and Sullivan before – we caught The Pirates of Penzance back in 2020 and HMS Pinafore last year. It’s always a delight to return to Wilton’s Music Hall in London – this cosy venue has a wonderful acoustic and makes for an enjoyably intimate experience. It’s a fairly simple production – the music is largely provided by a piano (musical director Anto Buckley is on the keys) although some of the actors add additional instrumentation from the…

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a fun and inclusive revival – review

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We were intrigued to see How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – it’s a show we’ve not reviewed before, but it has an impressive resumé. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls), the original 1961 Broadway production picked up seven Tony Awards and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It rarely plays in London and hasn’t had a major revival anywhere for a number of years now, so when we saw a production was to open at the intimate Southwark Playhouse we knew we needed…

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