Music and Dance·Theatre The Empire Strips Back: A Burlesque Parody (review) – a celebratory burlesque cabaret from a galaxy far, far away by Neil Baker 6th May 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Theatre The Isle of Wight’s Ventnor Fringe Festival announces the 2025 programme by Neil Baker 29th April 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Accidental Friends (Amici per caso) OUTshine review – Nardari’s movie may be colourful and warm, but it is also lazy and confused by Neil Baker 27th April 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Blue for a Boy (Azul de niño) OUTshine Review – Guardans’ debut feature is a darkly comic treat by Neil Baker 24th April 2025
Film and Television The Penguin Lessons (review) – a tonally uneven but ambitious and uplifting experience by Calum Cooper 17th April 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Don’t Let the Cat Out (review) – catnip to horror fans who like their films fun, creative and terrifically twisted by Neil Baker 12th April 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Theatre The multi-award-winning The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show to make Brighton Fringe homecoming by Neil Baker 12th April 2025
Theatre Cast and creatives announced for Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Birmingham Rep’s co-production of Marriage Material by Neil Baker 10th April 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ The Wedding Banquet (BFI Flare Review) – Ahn’s fresh, funny and heartfelt rom-com leaves you with a warm loving glow by Emma Duffy 3rd April 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Departures (BFI Flare Review) – Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan’s brilliant comedy drama isn’t afraid to dig deep into the gay male experience by Neil Baker 27th March 2025
1 The Male Gaze: Goodbye Love (review): NQV Media presents a tender, powerful collection of short films exploring endings and beginnings
2 The Last Bath (review) – a contemplative exploration of devotion, temptation, guilt and doubt that gently grips the audience
3 Ah Girl (TIFF) review: Ang Geck Geck Priscilla shows remarkable skills with child performers in her intimate and bittersweet drama
4 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
5 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
6 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
7 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
8 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
9 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
10 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
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