LGBT+
Born with Teeth, Wyndham's Theatre review - electric sparring match between Shakespeare and MarloweWednesday, 03 September 2025
The title refers to a line in Henry VI, Part III: the future Richard III boasts that midwives cried, "Oh Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth", a sign of both his monstrosity and his readiness to snarl and bite.Modern technological analysis... Read more... |
Fat Ham, RSC, Stratford review - it's Hamlet Jim, but not as we know itThursday, 28 August 2025
$8.2B. That’s what can happen when you re-imagine Hamlet.I doubt that writer, James Ijames, had The Lion King’s box office in mind when he set out to create a Deep South, black and contemporary version of Shakespeare’s drama of familial dysfunction... Read more... |
Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex review - sexual identity slips, hurts and healsSunday, 24 August 2025
Two chimney sweeps sit by a window. The boss (Thorbjørn Harr) recounts a dream meeting with David Bowie, who disconcertingly looks at him like he’s a woman. Funny thing, his friend (Jar Gunnar Røise) replies. Yesterday, a male client asked him to... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Ode Islands / Delusions and Grandeur / Shame ShowWednesday, 20 August 2025
The Ode Islands, Pleasance at EICC ★★★★ I might be going out on a limb here, but you’re unlikely to encounter anything quite like The Ode Islands elsewhere on the Fringe – perhaps anywhere, to be honest. That’s both in terms of form and content... Read more... |
Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love review - freed loveSunday, 17 August 2025
Love was the Norwegian climax of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, the most lovestruck vision of his city and boldest prophesy of how to live there, beyond borders and bonds of sexual identity and shame. Released here between Dreams’ meta-memories... Read more... |
Tom at the Farm, Edinburgh Fringe 2025 review - desire and disgustMonday, 11 August 2025
As shockingly beautiful as it is horrifyingly brutal, actor Armando Babaioff’s deeply Brazilian adaptation of thriller Tom at the Farm leaves a rancid taste in the mouth and harrowing images seared on the retina. It’s a show to shock and provoke,... Read more... |
Album: Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love YouThursday, 07 August 2025
This is a weird one: I do try and stay on top of pop culture, but for several years, Ethel Cain completely passed me by. You’d think I would have noticed a gothic bisexual Baptist trans woman achieving great enough success to be championed by Barack... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud on sex, love, and confusion in the modern worldWednesday, 06 August 2025
"First love is always both terrible and wonderful at the same time", says the 60-year-Norwegian dramatist-novelist-director Dag Johan Haugerud, whose new film Oslo Stories: Dreams is all about the most beautiful and painful feeling in the world.... Read more... |
Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review - love lessonsWednesday, 06 August 2025
Rising temperatures, prickling skin, longing’s all-consuming ache: first love’s swooning symptoms overtake 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye) in the Golden Bear-winning Dreams, the first UK release from Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo... Read more... |
Album: Reneé Rapp - Bite MeFriday, 01 August 2025
The stage musical update of Mean Girls, and the film adaptation, pushed Reneé Rapp into the public eye. She played queen bitch Regina George. She’s become well-known for her forthright public persona, especially since coming out as a lesbian last... Read more... |
Album: Wet Leg - moisturizerSaturday, 12 July 2025
War, pestilence, famine, death. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had my fill of them all. So what better time to visit the genuinely sunny uplands – the long-anticipated second album from Wet Leg.My, those seemingly demure, Amish-styled girls have... Read more... |
Hamad Butt: Apprehensions, Whitechapel Gallery review - cool, calm and potentially lethalSaturday, 07 June 2025
Hamad Butt studied at Goldsmiths College at the same time as YBAs (Young British Artists) like Damien Hirst and Gillian Wearing; but whereas they would become household names so their work is now familiar, he disappeared from view. It makes his... Read more... |
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