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REVIEW: ‘The Tailor-Made Man’ at Stage Door Theatre, London

Brian Butler May 21, 2024

In order to keep gay actors in the closet and their sex life out of the headlines, for decades Hollywood studio bosses said the same thing: “remember what happened to William Haines”. And what did happen is the subject of Claudio Macor’s passionate and searingly honest play The Tailor-Made Man – the first play to […]

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Stage Door Theatre: new queers on the block

Brian Butler May 16, 2024

At a time when small theatre spaces are struggling to keep afloat, it’s a brave team who open a new venue – especially in London’s ‘Theatreland’. But Robert McWhir and Richard Lambert have a lifetime’s experience of getting a gallon of theatre out of a pint pot of space. Robert ran the wonderfully innovative and […]

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On stage: Drag Ballet, a hot cleaner in marigolds, Princess Diana resurrected and two gay sauna visits

Brian Butler April 3, 2024

Drag ballet, a Hollywood legend in the closet, a hot cleaner in marigolds and two gay sauna visits all feature in my latest round-up of queer shows in Brighton and London Mark Gatiss, the brilliant writer of Sherlock and Dr Who, has put together a series of monologues that chart LGBTQ+ history milestones. Queers, which […]

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