QX Magazine

Matt Rogers at Soho Theatre 13 - 18 November. The Yuletide queer musical extravaganza you’ve been waiting for. Matt Rogers, musical powerhouse and Variety ‘Comic to Watch’, brings his queer yuletide extravaganza, Have You Heard of Christmas? to Soho Theatre, Monday 13 to Saturday 18 November. Following a hit US tour, Showtime special and praise in prominent US critics’ picks of...

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen is the story of a man who, after years of swiping and being a permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up, finally meets Mr Right – and then does everything wrong.  Described as ‘razor sharp’ by The Scotsman, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen is a hit play from the producers...

Krishna Istha is a performance artist, and their performance, First Trimester, runs between 1 and 11 November at Battersea Arts Centre. Exploring groundbreaking territory, the performance has been commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Roundhouse and Marlborough Productions and supported by the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund and Arts Council England.  In First Trimester you’re invited to witness intimate live interviews between...

An "absolute tornado of a cabaret star", Aidan Sadler is routinely vandalising the face of cabaret. Described as the "Demonic David Bowie", they made their staggering ascent to notoriety at Edinburgh Fringe 2021 with their debut show, Tropicana, which went on to sell out, extend and win "Best Solo Act" at The Scene Alba Awards. After taking Edinburgh Fringe...

Jock Night takes you through a year of wild nights in Manchester’s Gay Village, exploring modern gay relationships in a world fuelled by sex, drugs, and jockstraps. As we go in to the last remaining nights of the run (Jock Night has to end on 11th November!), QX got hold of a sexed-up set of photos of the production...

Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick! opens at Charing Cross Theatre on 24 November. Writer Jon Bradfield talks about the show. When Vauxhall’s LGBT venue Above The Stag Theatre closed its doors last year, London lost its most popular annual adult pantomime. The Stag’s gloriously gay pantos – equal parts smart and stupid, smutty and sophisticated – were a feelgood festive...

Queer East returns to cinemas around the UK in 2023 for its fourth year with a nationwide tour presenting contemporary feature films and documentaries with retrospective screenings, short films, artists’ moving image works, and a VR cinematic experience. Through a programme of cinema and performance art, the festival pushes boundaries and challenges expectations and labels commonly associated with queer...

The French Film Festival is back to Ciné Lumière from 1 to 12 November, presenting the best and newest French Cinema. Expect over forty screenings, UK premieres, and talents attending Q&As, including Palme d’Or winning director Justine Trietand more.  Highlights include the screening and the Q&A of Marinette, inspired by the life of Marinette Pichon, one of the world’s greatest football stars. The film follows...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe sensation Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen transfers to the Bush for its first London run from 10 November - 23 December 2023. The show won The Stage Edinburgh Award and a Scotsman Fringe First Award. “I’m 36, I’m a comedian, and I’m about to kill my boyfriend…” After years of swiping, a permanently single,...

The Yard Theatre has announced that due to popular demand, it will extend its world premiere production of The Flea by James Fritz. Directed by the Yard's Artistic Director, Jay Miller, the show will run until 2 December.  The Flea features class, crisis, cover-ups, and the crown in a retelling of the Cleveland Street scandal 1889.  Now a largely forgotten episode in London...