Theatre

The Color Purple actor Seyi Omooba

Theatre
Apr 01 2021

Color Purple actor blames losing £300,000 discrimination case on cancel culture

The Color Purple actor Seyi Omooba

Theatre
Mar 30 2021

Color Purple actor fired for homophobia ordered to pay £300,000 court costs after losing legal battle

The musical adaption of Priscilla Queen of the Desert will tour across the UK in 2021. (Photo by Europa Press/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Theatre
Mar 29 2021

Priscilla Queen of the Desert musical wants trans performers to audition for the upcoming 2021 UK tour

Theatre
Mar 25 2021

Drag Race icons Latrice Royale and Willam make West End debut in Death Drop: tickets, dates and more

Ian Mckellen turns 80

Culture
Mar 19 2021

Sir Ian McKellen to make his grand return to the stage in ‘age, colour and gender-blind’ Hamlet

Elaine Paige, with a screen visor, receives her second coronavirus vaccine dose

Theatre
Mar 17 2021

Elaine Page gives iconic Cats showtune a vaccine-themed remake: ‘Make COVID a memory’

Divina De Campo

Theatre
Mar 15 2021

Divina de Campo is starring in the 2021 UK tour of hit musical Chicago – tickets, dates and more

Samantha Banks stars as Elsa in the West End production of Frozen. (YouTube)

Theatre
Mar 11 2021

Frozen the Musical announces West End reopening date: tickets, prices and more

The Color Purple actor Seyi Omooba

Theatre
Feb 08 2021

The Color Purple actor fired for homophobia made herself ‘commercially toxic’, tribunal told

The Color Purple actor Seyi Omooba

News
Feb 03 2021

The Color Purple actor sacked for saying homosexuality ‘isn’t right’ offered her full salary ‘unconditionally’

The Color Purple actress dropped from show for anti-gay post

Theatre
Feb 02 2021

The Color Purple actor, fired for homophobia, would’ve refused role if she knew character was gay

Alan Carr in a floral suit

Culture
Jan 11 2021

Alan Carr tour postponed – but comic adds extra dates to new show

Jonathan Bailey shirtless in Bridgerton

Culture
Dec 31 2020

Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey warned not to come out by powerful queer TV figures

Travis Alabanza's Overflow – a thoughtful play on trans women's safety

Theatre
Dec 16 2020

Travis Alabanza’s gripping new play teaches a powerful lesson about bathrooms, transphobia and female friendship

Jo Ellen Pellman and Ariana DeBose hugging

TV
Dec 11 2020

The Prom’s Ariana DeBose used ‘all the pressures’ of growing up queer to tell a lesbian love story the right way

Jimmy Essex's face against a dimly lit wall

Theatre
Dec 11 2020

West End chemsex drama star Jimmy Essex is determined to tell queer stories beyond ‘the coming out thing’

Theatre
Dec 04 2020

Drag Race royalty Monét X Change on the art of camp and where she disagrees with RuPaul

The Color Purple actress dropped from show for anti-gay post

Theatre
Nov 26 2020

The Color Purple actor fired for homophobia loses first round of ‘religious discrimination’ case

Courtney Act condemns Australian census for lack of questions regarding LGBT+ identity.

Culture
Nov 25 2020

Courtney Act on drag after lockdown, fisting and whether she’d do Strictly Come Dancing

Hugh Sheridan was cast in a production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. (Getty/Sydney Festival)

Theatre
Nov 18 2020

Hedwig and the Angry Inch production suspended after yet another cis man is cast in the titular genderqueer role

travis alabanza

Theatre
Nov 16 2020

Travis Alabanza and actress Reece Lyons embark on ‘devastating’ tour of women’s bathrooms in vital new play

gay theatre critic mark shenton

Theatre
Nov 11 2020

Esteemed gay theatre critic told he’s an ‘abomination’ who will ‘rot in hell’ in shocking email from his own father

Bette Midler upgraded Donald Trump's dismal loss in the presidential election into a musical number. (Screen capture via Twitter)

Theatre
Nov 07 2020

Bette Midler turns Donald Trump’s dismal presidential election loss into a scathing Broadway musical

Theatre
Oct 16 2020

Groundbreaking queer Broadway show Slave Play makes Tony Awards history with record 12 nominations

Andrew Lloyd webber wap

Music
Aug 29 2020

Andrew Lloyd Webber dropped a ‘Phantom of the WAPera’ Cardi B remix and we regret to inform you music is cancelled

Andrew Lloyd Webber streaming musicals coronavirus

Music
Jul 17 2020

Andrew Lloyd Webber orders Donald Trump campaign to stop playing Cats classic Memory at rallies

Richard Cawley (left) and Richard Westcott are the 'Ugly Sisters' in a production of a Cinderella pantomime at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. (Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

News
Jul 06 2020

Culture secretary warns panto season – one of the jewels of the queer calendar – is under threat from coronavirus

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton

Theatre
Jul 03 2020

The ‘romantic friendship’ between Alexander Hamilton and another man that didn’t quite make it into the iconic hit musical

Broadway will remain closed until 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Theatre
Jun 30 2020

Broadway will remain shuttered for the rest of 2020 and yes, that sound you can hear is a million gay hearts breaking

Ben Platt in The Politician on Netflix

Culture
Jun 22 2020

Ben Platt covers an iconic Broadway musical in The Politician season two, and it’s weirdly perfect

The actor Javier Muñoz spoke about his experience

Theatre
Jun 08 2020

Hamilton star Javier Muñoz says he was victim to a horrific homophobic attack by undercover cops

Heather Morris (L) is the latest former Glee actor to lit into Lea Michele. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Culture
Jun 04 2020

Lea Michele backlash continues as Glee and Broadway co-stars pile on criticism

Larry Kramer HIV AIDS speech

News
May 28 2020

‘40 million infected people is a f**king plague’: Larry Kramer’s furious, impassioned HIV speech is essential viewing 30 years on

A glittering array of theatre stars have united for a star-studded performance of 'You Can't Stop The Beat' from Hairspray.

Theatre
May 20 2020

Harvey Fierstein, Jenifer Lewis, Kristin Chenoweth and more give a rousing virtual rendition of Hairspray’s ‘You Can’t Stop the Beat’

Ben Platt and Noah Galvin

Culture
May 12 2020

Ben Platt and Noah Galvin are officially dating and the sound you hear is a million hearts breaking in perfect harmony

Siegfried & Roy: Iconic Las Vegas magician Siegfried Fischbacher dies

Culture
May 10 2020

Gay, tiger-levitating Las Vegas magician Roy Horn – who inspired Tiger King’s Joe Exotic – has died after testing positive for COVID-19

Black, gay playwright Michael R. Jackson has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Theatre
May 05 2020

This Black gay playwright started his career as a Broadway usher. Now, he’s just made history as a Pulitzer Prize winner

Patti LuPone was peak Patti LuPone on an episode of Watch What Happens Next with Andy Cohen. (Screen capture via YouTube)

Theatre
Apr 29 2020

Broadway legend Pattie LuPone proudly tells Alyssa Edwards and Andy Cohen that she’s had crabs… twice

Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Saunders in Sister Act

Theatre
Apr 27 2020

Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Saunders’ Sister Act musical has been postponed, meaning 2020 is now officially cancelled

Meryl Streep Christine Baranski Audra McDonald Stephen Sondheim

Theatre
Apr 27 2020

Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald booze in their bathrobes to celebrate Stephen Sondheim and it’s nothing less than iconic