Ian McKellen Live On Stage UK Tour
Ian McKellen is to celebrate his 8oth birthday next year by raising funds for theatres, with a new solo show which will play on 80 stages across the UK.
LGBT
New York Showtune Bar Marie’s Crisis to Hit London For One Week Only
Famed New York Sing-a-long show tune bar Marie’s Crisis to take over British gay pub The City Of Quebec in London for one week only. For more than four decades, famed show tune bar Marie’s Crisis has hosted theatre fans in New York’s West Village. With a singing pianist, patrons are treated to an extensive repertoire of show tunes old and new seven nights a week. Producer Ray Rackham has teamed up with the bar to bring Marie’s Crisis Pop-Up Piano Bar to London from October 30 – November 3, 2018. Legendary British gay pub The City Of Quebec will play host to the pop-up. Kenney M. Green and Adam Michael Tilford, the singing pianists from Marie’s in New York will come to London along with singers Randy Taylor and Jennifer Pace who are regulars at Marie’s in New York.
Sink The Pink Present A Super Scary Christmas Show At Pleasance
International drag collective Sink The Pink are teaming up with London’s Pleasance Theatre to create How To Catch A Krampus, a super scary Christmas show that is strictly for adults. Deck the halls with boughs of horror as Sink The Pink present a true alternative to the traditional Christmas production. Based on the Victorian melodrama and the myth of the Krampus (a horned eastern European Christmas beast with the head of a goat and long hideous claws) How To Catch A Krampus is set to scare. The story follows the scandalous exploits of a part-time spirit medium/full-time con-artist. Her shadowy life takes an even darker turn when her made-up magic suddenly starts to get results. When faced with certain death and growing suspicion from everyone around her, can she catch the Krampus and save her own skin in the process? Inspired by London’s bawdy and dangerous theatrical past and a … Read more
Kids Play Transfers To Above The Stag
Edinburgh Fringe hit Kids Play by Glenn Chandler has announced that it will transfer to London’s Above the Stage Theatre.
Play Something Comes To Drayton Arms Theatre
Following a highly successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stage Write bring their acclaimed LGBT play Play Something to the Drayton Arms Theatre. Written by Paul T Davies, Play Something played to acclaim last year at the Lakeside Theatre at the Universiry Of Essex. The production will be presented at the Drayton Arms for a strictly limited season from 18 – 22 September at 7.30pm. “Side One, Track Two. That song is about me.” From beginning to end, M and F tell you the story of their love, and ask the DJ to Play Something. Something to make love to, to split up to, to celebrate, to cry, and to play the Forever Song. They are the songs of all of us. Covering decades, younger become older and the play becomes the story of everyone who has loved, lost, and loved again, and had Our Song. Stage Write was … Read more
Cast confirmed for West End transfer of The Inheritance
Nearly the whole cast of the Young Vic’s hit two-part play The Inheritance has been confirmed for its West End transfer as rehearsals get underway.
REVIEW: Trans Pennine, The Space On North Bridge, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Ian Tucker-Bell’s Trans Pennine now playing at The Space on North Bridge at Edinburgh Fringe.
Guy, A Musical About Modern Masculinity Comes To King’s Head Theatre
leo&hyde bring Guy, a new musical gay rom-com to the King’s Heads for a limited season from August 28.
