Time Out's gui to the bt LGBTQ+ theatre shows across London. Coverg everythg om lbian drama to queer baret to gay theatre classics, here's where to fd the latt LGBTQ+ shows across the cy.
Contents:
- DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
- GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
- GAY THEATRE LONDON: HOW THE PAL'S VENU ARE FLYG THE RABOW FLAG
- A STRANGE LOOP, THE PULZER-WNG MIL ABOUT A GAY THEATRE USHER
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
- GO WT! GAY STORYL ARE DRAWG CROWDS TO THEATR LONDON'S WT END AND GE
- A STRANGE LOOP, THE PULZER-WNG MIL ABOUT A GAY THEATRE USHER
DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
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Okay, there are jt a few dited LGBTQ+ performance venu the cy, cludg gay theatre hubs Above the Stag, Royal Vxhall Tavern and the Kg's Head. Expect everythg om genre-smashg queer baret to lbian romance to gay theatre classics to exploratns of trans experience.
GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
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Until 16 September 2023 Sleepg Bety Tak A Prick TicketsSleepg Bety Tak A Prick at Charg Cross Theatre 23 November 2023 to 13 January 2024 Strangers Between TicketsThe Goln Goose Theatre is revivg classic Atralian drama Strangers Between by Tommy Murphy, which looks at the highs and lows of growg up gay morn Atralia. Deeper and Deeper13 Sept - 7 Oct 2023A New Comedy Drama5 young gay men start sharg a Camn flat the late 90’s. In the first half of the 20th century, you uld be arrted for stagg a gay play.
Here are ten of the plays that have ntributed to LGBTQ+ theatre's rich Drag by Mae WtThe Drag follows Rolly, a gay man who marri a woman to hi his sexualy, and the nsequenc of this.
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GAY THEATRE LONDON: HOW THE PAL'S VENU ARE FLYG THE RABOW FLAG
Gay schoolboy and huge Harry Potter fan Jack is rigned to havg a Hufflepuff type of life, but dreams of changg his story, beg sorted to Gryffdor and g * gay theatre in london *
Bluefish Cove is a “gay woman’s haven” where a group of seven lbians are spendg their annual holiday.
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Bt plac for LGBTQ+ theatre LondonBent by Mart ShermanMart Sherman’s harrowg play sh a light on the persecutn of gay men durg the Holot. Max (played by Ian McKellen the origal n at the Royal Court) is a gay man Berl the 1930s, taken to Dach wh his boyiend Rudy after the Night of Long Kniv.
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GAY MOSW · CY GUI
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Bent remas one of the bt known gay plays theatre history and ntu to spire revivals. It is by no means as ntroversial as many plays wh central male gay them, but has to work doubly hard bee of this lack of other lbian storyl on the stage, somethg that is dire need of changg and that Fun Home self uld In Ameri by Tony Khner The exploratn of AIDS 1980s Ameri an epic unrtakg, and Angels Ameri is a suably epic play. Hot on the heels of the Angels Ameri revival, Matthew Lopez asks what is like for the next generatn of young gay men New York, growg up and livg the shadow of the AIDS crisis.
GO WT! GAY STORYL ARE DRAWG CROWDS TO THEATR LONDON'S WT END AND GE
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Penned by Tarell Alv McCraney (whose tobgraphil play beme spiratn for the Osr wng Moonlight) this 2008 play talks about what means to be black and to be gay. It remas jt as pertent today, alg wh the stggl that arise om the batn of misogyny and homophobia that are far om beg stamped out today’s society.
In the bar we’ll be slgg throwback party hs n miss, while the basement we get hot and heavy wh homosexual hoe and dis! Tim have changed the Soho district over recent years and has gone om a slightly sleazy ‘straight’ sex district to today’s vibrant ‘gay village’. Another part of the premis beme a gay bar known as Too2Much, then November 2006 changed s name to Soho Revue Bar where Boy Gee gave some performanc.
A STRANGE LOOP, THE PULZER-WNG MIL ABOUT A GAY THEATRE USHER
Equipped wh the latt projectn equipment, the ground floor screen plays ‘straight’ adult films and the first floor screen upstairs plays ‘gay’ adult films. A Strange Loop, the Pulzer-Wng Mil About a Gay Theatre Usher | AnOtherA Strange Loop, Broadway ProductnPhotography by Marc J FranklFollowg a hugely succsful Broadway n, A Strange Loop has now arrived London. “I always scribe as a mil about a young fat Black gay mil theatre wrer named Usher who works as an her on Broadway, ” Jackson begs.