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Review: Tea for Two

GT digs around at the Brighton Fringe

17/05/2013 12:28:37

Review: Liza (on an E)

It's Liza with a Z on an E, you see...

16/05/2013 18:16:36

Anne Reid’s got a new key

Comedy legend takes to the stage for a very different show...

14/05/2013 12:42:10

Review: Gutted

Reviewing Rikki Beadle-Blair's latest play...

13/05/2013 15:26:03

Review: Merrily We Roll Along

Sondheim dipped in Chocolate...

02/05/2013 16:32:34

Review: Bare

Singing, sexually confused teens at a co-ed Catholic boarding school...

02/05/2013 11:22:46

Review: Jersey Boys

Oh, what a night!

29/04/2013 15:58:18

Review: Pie Eyed

Chalk Dust Cabaret goes back to the drawing board

24/04/2013 10:46:32

Beautiful Thing

The West End gets beautiful again

18/04/2013 13:29:13

Joan Collins

The West End’s must-see diva

16/04/2013 17:06:30

Review: 8th Wave

Young gay writer's new play

10/04/2013 16:14:44

Before Lady GaGa lived Lady Day

That Ole Devil Called Love...

05/04/2013 17:36:02

Review: Smack Family Robinson

Denise Welch and Keith Allen are back on the stage

04/04/2013 18:04:16

Gok's beautiful thing

Gok Wan explains what Beautiful Thing means to him

28/03/2013 14:49:23

Quasimodo

The world premiere of Lionel Bart’s musical at the Kings Head Theatre

25/03/2013 17:29:07

3some

Two’s company, three’s…

25/03/2013 10:48:38

Book of Mormon

Glory be! A new musical we can truly believe in!

22/03/2013 11:20:35

Review: Black Pudding

Please sir, we want some more.

18/03/2013 10:52:50

Above Me The Wide Blue Sky

Birdsong and blue skies at night, indoors, in London.

14/03/2013 14:46:17

Leslie Jordan's Fruit Fly

Good things definitely come in small packages...

13/03/2013 12:02:03

Planet Warhol comes to Peckham

Review: A Thousand Miles of History at The Bussey Building

13/03/2013 10:51:26

West End: Singin' In The Rain

Jennifer Ellison makes a splash

08/03/2013 17:23:38

Review: Lady Rizo

We were getting pretty bored of caberet, but this was pretty awesome.

27/02/2013 12:48:56

Review: Anton and Erin Go To Hollywood

Pushing the boundaries of camp

27/02/2013 11:57:33

Review: Coalition

We can do high-brow theatre, too, you know

25/02/2013 17:41:59

Don't worry, be happy

If there's one thing we love, it's making Dickie happy.

22/02/2013 17:53:39

Review: A Chorus Line

GT visits a triumphant premier at the London Palladium.

20/02/2013 12:28:56

Coming around again

Musical re-emerges in London – 44 years on

20/02/2013 11:57:45

Feast yours eyes on this

Feast at the Young Vic is a treat.

19/02/2013 12:33:52

Fashion Victim: The Musical

To coincide with London Fashion Week, curtains will part for Toby Rose's brand new, much-awaited electro musical Fashion

14/02/2013 11:46:08

West End: The Bodyguard

We take a look at the stage adaptation of Whitney Houston's classic film.

06/02/2013 12:33:52

Fair Em

Swords. Tights. Tunics.

31/01/2013 15:55:52

Art Movement

We’re digging out our dancing shoes for Klaus Nomi.

30/01/2013 17:34:32

Review: Thriller Live

It don't matter whether you're black or white, MJ's hits live on.

30/01/2013 12:22:43

Time to dig out those fishnets again...

The Rocky Horror Show celebrates 40 years of doing the Timewarp.

22/01/2013 14:07:00

Review: One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

It's a play about the joy of sex - perfect.

18/01/2013 15:32:01

REVIEW: Meow Meow, Little Match Girl

GT finds out that nobody is safe when Meow Meow takes to the stage...

03/01/2013 14:20:33

Christmas with The Supreme Fabulettes

Glittery and glamorous fun with The Supreme Fabulettes

20/12/2012 17:02:29

PANTO SEASON 2012

Ah, the theatre. There would be no world without it.

20/12/2012 12:41:22

Get Aladdin

Get Aladdin is a brilliant adult panto that's a non-stop romp of laugher, double entendres and magical adventure.

14/12/2012 16:30:17

Aladdin: A Wish Come True

Lily Savage does Chicago and Gypsy. Oh yes.

13/12/2012 17:36:20

Wind Up Collective

We headed to Camden for the Roundhouse Show Slam to watch London based youth theatre group Wind-Up Collective do their...

12/12/2012 15:54:03

Feline fun as Seussical hits the stage

“The defendant has been charged with talking to a speck, disturbing the peace, and loitering on an egg”

07/12/2012 17:19:43

American Idiot

Guyliner a go-go

05/12/2012 12:34:15

Merrie Hell

The Anti-Christ(mas) that is David Holye is all singing and all dancing. Will bells on.

04/12/2012 14:56:29

Boy Meets Boy

It’s a boy’s world in this 1930’s musical romp

04/12/2012 14:31:39

The Changeling @ Young Vic

iPhone asylum meets 80s sex club as Young Vic triumph again with Joe Hill-Gibbins' insane re-purposing of an already...

03/12/2012 13:39:19

Dusty O's adult Panto

Who doesn't love a bit of Dick?

03/12/2012 13:33:06

Hero

GT reviews E.V. Crowe's new play at the Royal Court

30/11/2012 15:30:26

Spamalot

It's a pantomime. There. Glad to get that out the way.

23/11/2012 12:00:36

The Coming Storm

Forced Entertainment's latest show descends on Battersea Arts Centre

22/11/2012 17:20:34

Santa's little belter

There's a new diva on the block for Christmas

22/11/2012 11:42:43

The Taming of Something So Wilde

Any gay man worth his salt should know about Oscar Wilde. Irreverent, decadent, intelligent, humorous and articulate –...

20/11/2012 14:39:43

Sweet Smell of Success

Leveson wouldn't know where to start with this one…

16/11/2012 17:01:40

All American fun

GT reviews the latest Kander and Ebb revival, Steel Pier

08/11/2012 11:07:56

Victor/Victoria

A new stage production of a camp classic...

07/11/2012 11:08:50

Superstar finalist goes Gaye

That's Marvin Gaye of course.

05/11/2012 15:50:07

Tommy

Returning to the West End as a special one-time treat is The Who’s musical, directed by the proficient Raz Shaw.

05/11/2012 11:43:17

GT Geek at Destination Star Trek London

We boldly go where lots of gays have, er, also gone...

02/11/2012 17:04:50

9 to 5 The Musical

The best show we've seen all year.

24/10/2012 14:10:30

Epstein at Homotopia

Liverpool’s annual gay arts festival has joined forces with seasoned writer Andrew Sherlock for the production of a new...

23/10/2012 14:44:34

Elegy

A one-man, one hour play exploring the blight of extreme homophobia in modern day Iraq. 

15/10/2012 15:49:51

The Last Session

It's nothing like Rent. Promise.

11/10/2012 15:17:37

The Merchant of Venice

Reviewed at Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton

25/09/2012 12:30:51

The Magic Flute & Julietta

ENO’s season opens with a classy revival and a modern classic

20/09/2012 16:56:17

I Am A Camera

Isherwood BC (Before Cabaret)

11/09/2012 11:25:03

Firestarter!

Prisoner stars having a riot

30/08/2012 12:00:53

Volcano

Erupting across London's West End now...

24/08/2012 15:35:36

Le Gateau Chocolat

as he loves saying, AT THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

24/08/2012 13:08:53

The Boys/Girls in the Band

There's no way we were ever not going to give this show five stars.

23/08/2012 17:00:37

David Morgan: Pretty

Boys make passes at boys that wear glasses

17/08/2012 11:40:33

Simon Callow returns to the West End

in Peter Ackroyd’s The Mystery of Charles Dickens

13/08/2012 13:47:42

Hitting the G-Spot with Pandora's Box.

"It's a messy job is stripping, especially when you started as a toilet attendant!"

03/08/2012 10:55:16

Johnny O’Callaghan

A pre-Edinburgh GT interview

02/08/2012 16:58:28

Ride of The Bluebottles

Exciting new Edinburgh Fringe Play

20/07/2012 11:05:22

Chris Colfer wants to represent all those who are overachieving and under appreciated.

The Glee star takes centre stage in the smart man’s American Pie.

19/07/2012 13:41:36

Hahn-Bin Interview

Hahn-Bin is the avant-garde violinist you never knew you needed in your life. Arriving in the UK this week for a...

17/07/2012 17:29:42

Vieux Carré

This house is empty now

16/07/2012 11:03:13

A brilliant idea!

Mack and Mabel

13/07/2012 17:05:20

Chariots of Fire

On stage!

05/07/2012 16:59:27

Boom Boom Club: Prospero’s Tavern

Raucous but Cutting-edge Cabaret

04/07/2012 17:12:16

Penny Arcade

One faghag's non-stop erotic cabaret

02/07/2012 17:05:40

Utopia

A theatrical Utopia hits Soho, the West End mini-utopia for us gays.

02/07/2012 15:08:18

We chat with James Sutton about his new venture

Since leaving the fields of the dales less than a year ago, actor James Sutton has been a very busy man indeed but...

02/07/2012 12:05:05

Chicken

Queer as Folk’s Craig gets his feathers ruffled

02/07/2012 11:33:38

The History Boys

The boys are back in town as Sell A Door return to Greenwich Theatre.

22/06/2012 16:38:07

Nick Darke’s Bud

As interpreted by Penny Cliff and the Tell Theatre Company

19/06/2012 11:08:16

Wildboyz

Alex Reid, Danny Young, Marcus Patrick, and Dale Howard get naked.

19/06/2012 10:19:52

Torch Song Trilogy

The only torch worth turning out to see in Britain

14/06/2012 16:57:05

All the nice girls (boys) love a sailor (soldier).

Many regular readers will have had experiences with dark tunnels near Waterloo Station, but this time we’re offering...

13/06/2012 15:09:15

One Man, One Tony

James Corden takes home a Tony for One Man, Two Guvnors

11/06/2012 12:28:37

Cantina

Possibly the sexiest show on in London right now.

31/05/2012 12:21:03

Touched…Like a Virgin

at Soho Theatre, London

28/05/2012 12:40:58

Top of the Pops meets Live Aid

I got love for you if you were born in the 80s, the 80s...

17/05/2012 16:25:55

The love story no-one ever told you…

Affection, seduction, obsession, repression and the bitter-sweet tragedy of young love…

15/05/2012 14:18:06

Spring Awakening

...is relevant to our interests here at GT

10/05/2012 14:09:31

Top Hat

The musical staging of Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's silver screen hit which, at nearly 70 years old, has become a...

10/05/2012 12:10:10

Unhappy Birthday

Amy Lamé is having a birthday party, and everyone’s invited.

08/05/2012 16:57:49

Natural Voices – The Full Monty

Leicester Square Theatre

30/04/2012 13:04:02

Heeeeeeere’s Jonny!

Lock up your sons and stilettos because the Jonny Woo show is back in town.

27/04/2012 11:49:10

All eyes on me in the centre of the ring...

It's not Britney, bitch. But it is a circus.

26/04/2012 17:51:42

Wild Swans

at the Young Vic

25/04/2012 10:55:56

Soul Sister

It's basically Tina Turner, The Musical.

23/04/2012 15:57:42

Reach Out and Touch Me

Oooh, if we must...

12/04/2012 17:41:25

Bette and Joan

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

29/03/2012 10:50:18

The Master and Margarita

Complicite doing what they do best at The Barbican

27/03/2012 13:41:03

Assassins

2nd Company Productions take a fantastically well-aimed shot at the Sondheim classic.

27/03/2012 10:29:18

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

We all go a little mad sometimes

20/03/2012 16:44:38

All New People

How to win over a cynical reviewer

16/03/2012 16:17:24

Lord of the Flies

Stantonbury Campus Theatre, Milton Keynes

09/03/2012 11:35:47

What Would Helen Mirren Do?

No, not get her knockers out.

02/03/2012 14:26:14

Floyd Collins

Going underground

02/03/2012 12:15:02

Hay Fever

Hay Fever is absolutely fabulous.

27/02/2012 10:48:04

Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

at London's Royal Opera House

20/02/2012 17:44:28

Patience

Good things come to he who waits...

20/02/2012 14:44:46

Ezra Axelrod: Songs From The American Motel

Great name, shame about the show

10/02/2012 14:06:15

The Pitchfork Disney

Dark, dystopian and sexually dysfunctional. Just how we like our theatre.

10/02/2012 12:29:45

West End Girl

In a West End town, a dead end world...

06/02/2012 09:48:24

Sleeping with straight men

Not as hot as it sounds.

16/01/2012 14:51:05

The Art of Concealment: The Life of Terence Rattigan

Down at the bottom of the deep blue sea ...

16/01/2012 12:30:29

Theatre review

The Woman In Black

09/01/2012 12:41:28

Bourgeois and Maurice's Fa La La La La

A gloriously unfestive christmas show

16/12/2011 12:20:31

Dick Whittington

At the New Wimbledon Theatre. (The only place for panto.)

16/12/2011 12:11:43

Coldplay

Reviewed at Dingwalls, Camden

14/12/2011 17:22:46

Stage review

The Nutcracker @ The Royal Opera House

14/12/2011 14:18:55

Fascinating Aida: Cheap Flights

So. It’s happened. I’ve fallen in love with a woman.

09/12/2011 12:56:18

Pippin

GT's review of a musical about a boy who doesn't know what to do with his life.

08/12/2011 12:42:44

A John Waters Christmas

“I love Christmas so fucking much I could shit.”

06/12/2011 11:42:58

That John Lewis advert

Bourgeois & Maurice got their grubby mitts on it

01/12/2011 17:54:00

Matilda

GT is Team Trunchbull

25/11/2011 11:15:04

“Not on Christmas, Dawn!”

Nice girls don’t wear cha-cha heels.

22/11/2011 11:28:59

We don’t feel like dancing

(we feel like watching dancing)

18/11/2011 17:31:10

Burlesque

No, not that one.

18/11/2011 13:29:04

Three Days In May

New drama or history, boys?

15/11/2011 14:17:55

My Big Gay Italian Wedding

Big, gay and Italian.

04/11/2011 18:08:32

Ghetto Klown

Can a memoir show work if the truth has been altered? And does it really matter?

28/10/2011 13:33:16

Zanna Don’t! A Musical Fairytale

Not another teen musical.

25/10/2011 15:26:12

Theatre Review: The Lights @ The Spring Vauxhall

Fancy going to the theatre this week darling?

25/10/2011 13:34:59

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas

Like XXL. But a bit more gay.

21/10/2011 15:05:50

Inadmissible Evidence

How do you justify your own life? Could you defend yourself if called to account? That tenet is at the heart of the...

19/10/2011 15:34:49

The Sound of Music

The hills are still as alive as ever.

14/10/2011 10:28:40

Backbeat

The word is on the street...

12/10/2011 17:48:20

The Killing of Sister George

By George, they’ve done it!

10/10/2011 11:43:22

*Fabulous older woman alert!*

Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy: a review

07/10/2011 15:42:18

Idina Menzel

If you ever get the chance to see Idina Menzel in concert, do it.

07/10/2011 14:24:12

Cool Hand Luke

Gives us the Blues ...

05/10/2011 17:38:16

Cabaret New Burlesque

Welcome to burlesque...

05/10/2011 12:51:48

The Featherstonehaughs: Farewell Tour

Say hello, wave goodbye

05/10/2011 12:21:10

The Baker's Wife at Union Theatre

Not quite a French fancy ...

28/09/2011 11:02:58

Street Scene

Vintage revival hits the spot

22/09/2011 16:02:14

Mysterious Skin

Fresh from acclaimed runs in Dublin and Edinburgh this adaptation of Scott Heim’s book makes a short stop in London.

20/09/2011 14:21:51

Boys Plays

One evening, two plays, much discussion over drinks

19/09/2011 11:51:06

Bestival 2011

The fabulous Lyndsey Honour tackles Bestival without getting her feet wet.

16/09/2011 10:00:54

Respect La Diva

Have some respect!

12/09/2011 14:35:28

Puck you

GT spend an evening with legend Chris Lilley

08/09/2011 14:28:25

Confessions of a Mormon Boy

Steven Fales strips to his smalls for his big story

08/09/2011 13:19:34

Ragtime

It's high praise indeed from Milo Wakelin for Ragtime...

07/09/2011 17:04:56

The Extra Factor

The words ‘Boys Play’ and ‘Extra Virgin’ made our little GT ears prick up.

06/09/2011 17:30:56

Chicago closes it's doors on Saturday

Gone. It's all gone.

26/08/2011 12:17:17

Batman Live

Nerdy review, incoming

25/08/2011 16:42:44

The Telephone and the Medium

Not your usual opera adaptation of Gian Carlo Menotti’s delightful double-bill.

25/08/2011 13:46:25

Holy hotness!

Christian Gordine speaks to the newest actor behind Batman's famous cowl, Sam Heughan, about the Batman Live World Arena

22/08/2011 17:15:21

Parade

If this doesn’t make you cry, then you’re in trouble ...

17/08/2011 11:51:01

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

We’re wild again, beguiled again …

01/08/2011 11:30:13

'Betwixt! A Funny Musical'

A brand new production that teams up some top Broadway talent with...a former Blue Peter presenter.

29/07/2011 12:00:43

Park Avenue Cat

Purrfectly dull

14/07/2011 13:19:52

When Harry Met Barry: A Musical Comedy

Straight boy action. But not the good kind.

13/07/2011 12:22:27

Yes, Prime Minister

An embattled Prime Minister steering a fragile coalition through a period of financial uncertainty - sound familiar?

12/07/2011 15:39:04

Road Show

Stephen Sondheim’s most recent contribution to the musical stage is the rather appropriately named Road Show which is...

11/07/2011 11:18:33

Rita Rudner

A Las Vegas show that doesn't involve getting a breast out.

04/07/2011 09:56:20

There she goes, Lisa Mannooli!

Liza’s live gig makes us actually lose the plot.

30/06/2011 12:58:33

OH. EM. GLEE. WIN TICKETS TO GLEE LIVE!

We went to see Glee Live at the weekend. It was actually really bloody good.

27/06/2011 12:55:05

Shrek - The Musical

“I’m wood, I’m good, GET USED TO IT.”

24/06/2011 14:27:52

Kathy Griffin

LIVE IN 3D!!!

20/06/2011 12:49:30

Lend Me A Tenor

With tap-dancing bellhops, demanding divas, mistaken identities and questionable Italian accents, Lend me a Tenor is a...

17/06/2011 12:54:08

BLINK AGAIN: TURN ON THE LIGHTS

Flops get perked up in this high octane camp revue

13/06/2011 11:18:13

Butley

Ben Butley (Dominic West) is a colossal bastard.

09/06/2011 10:20:51

Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

Milo Wakelin goes up the apples and pears to review the cockney musical.

31/05/2011 10:43:46

We want to have dinner with Gershwin

Or we could just skip dinner and go straight to the show.

24/05/2011 12:57:32