I'm Sorry, Prime Minister An homage to the classic TV comedy. Sir Humphrey still runs rings round Jim but old age has him less discreet. Hacker is Master of his college but for how long? Jim's care worker is brilliant. Rhys Jones is an odd choice as Hacker - too far from Paul Eddington. (7 of 2026)

@unfortunatemusical gloriously silly high camp entertainment. Perfect way to lighten a cold winter day. Ariel & Eric, each dumber than the other. Ursula gets her King Triton and her gay eel sidekicks... @theotherpalace (6 of 2026)

An evening trip to @parktheatrelondon . The Rat Trap was one of an 18yo Noel Coward's first works. A very clever battle of egos between an author and a playwright couple, well acted but lacking in the wit of his later work. The wife's friend Olive was the only likeable character. (5 of 2026)

Witness for the Prosecution is, if anything, more special than I remember. Site specific theatre in the old GLC council chamber. Is Leonard Vole (the stunning Charlie Preston) a murderer? Spectacular performances, especially the Roger May & Tom Goodwin as the opposing barristers. (4 of 2026)

My second visit to Titanique Last minute tix to a brilliant show. It felt really fresh & vigorous with this cast. Ryan Carter was exquisite as the Iceberg, absolutely belting out Tina. Carl Mullaney's Ruth was absolutely wonderful, especially the part-ad libbed, so so funny 😂😂😂 (3 of 2026)

HMS Pinafore @englishnationalopera a glorious explosion of Gilbert & Sullivan genius. Wonderful performances, giant dresses & a v camp First Lord. Conflicted about Mel Giedroyc's part - funny, v well done but felt v unnecessary. Hopefully it helps further expand ENO's audience base. (2 of 2026)

Already Perfect @kingsheadtheatre was an interesting concept - a gay actor is having a bad day & explores his past with his AA/NA sponsor, musical numbers & his younger self. A slow start but the no"Already Perfect" was beautiful & ended the story well. Lefevre & Mizrahi were wonderful. (1 of 2026)

Christmas Carol Goes Wrong Cornley Drama Society chaotically attempts A Christmas Carol. Absolute genius comedy as Mischief 🎭 are renowned for. Obviously Tiny Tim is a monstrous version of a disturbing ventriloquist's dummy & appears in odd locations. A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ end to 2025's 🎭 for me. (71 of 2025)

Twelfth Night @barbicancentre Silly comedy - Shakespeare style. A really strong cast with the brilliant Daniel Monks & Freeman Agyeman as the main nobles and Samuel West as the officious steward who's cruely brought down a peg or two. Loved the fool. (70 of 2025)

Fallen Angels @menchocfactory was just as funny the 2nd time (accidentally booked it twice🤦‍♂️). The drunken dinner is a tour de force of brilliant acting & Coward's cleverest writing. I could watch Janie Dee, Alexandra Gilbreath play 2 old friends drunk on cocktails & champagne for hours. (69 of 2025)

Bradfield & Hooper have done it again with Beauty & the Beast-a Horny Love Story. Twunky Bertie falls in love with his lairdly muscly beast, what's not to love? Christmas at its campest & gayest... The best, silliest, smuttiest & queerest adult panto of the year (as every year) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (68 of 2025)

The Fit Prince is wonderful. @awkwardprods at their finest. So much audience participation, so funny and so queer... Joseph gets to speak too 🤪 BAAB and their big hit Movement King show just how fun Swedonia and its prince can be. @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social (67 of 2025)

The Liar the Bitch and the Wardrobe @ union 🎭 Silly, funny, adult panto Peter & Edward are sent away to get str8. They get to Narnia through the wardrobe & get gayer Brilliant spoof songs "Denying F*ggotry" to "Defying Gravity"😂 Joe Pieri excels as Edward-Wonderful movement, voice(😍😋) (66 of 2025)

From the S̶u̶b̶l̶i̶m̶e̶ ridiculous to the ridiculous... #StarWhores at the two brewers was so so so funny 😂. A great start to Christmas. (65 of 2025)

Daniel's Husband @marylebonetheatre is beautiful, powerful theatre. Daniel & Mitchell are a delicious, high achieving couple sharing an evening with their friend & his beau. Everything is going brilliantly except grumbles about marriage & an overbearing mother then Daniel gets ill... (64 of 2025)

#TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest is my favourite play. The West End transfer of the NT production is glorious. Olly Alexander is a wonderfully camp Algernon & Stephen Fry makes a spectacular Lady Bracknell. Gwendolyn & Cecily are strong, passionate & present. A magical production. (63 of 2025)

Fallen Angels @menchocfactory is a masterpiece of Noel Coward's polite comedy. Janie Dee & Alexandra Gilbreath are absolutely glorious as Julia & Jane, 2 friends batting off each other & getting v drunk as they raucously explore past exploits with Maurice - who's back in town... ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (62 of 2025)

In Conversation with Graham Norton @waterlooeasttheatre Jamie Kaye plays Mark, a lonely 15 yo boy in whose outlet is talking to a 🖼️. In its light moments it's fun & moderately believable & good fringe theatre. A superficial foray into suicide doesn't work, leaving a confused piece. (61 of 2025)

A trip to St Martin's 🎭for #themousetrap - the 🌍's longest running play. Seeing this every few years shows the subtle changes. Joshua Riley plays Christopher Wren as an energetic, effete man with a thing for pretty 👮‍♂️ The twist is always a secret & I'll quickly forget again whodunit 🤣 (60 of 2025)

The Wanderers @ Marylebone🎭 follows 2 Jewish couples in New York. One orthodox & struggling with social expectations & restrictions. The other non-religious but struggling in a v confusing way. Brilliant staging with a simple set - snow, a glass wall & some creative use of white pen. (59 of 2025)

#daddysfirstgaydate was a light-hearted, somewhat silly take on a newly-out bi man finding his feet in an unfamiliar world. Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play. (58 of 2025)

The Producers s glorious - spectacular performances, very silly and featuring the campest n*zis ever... Bialystock & Bloom did very right (57 of 2025)

#Hercules proved to me that the big Disney musicals really aren't my thing... Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers. (56 of 2025)

Happy Ending @waterlooeasttheatre is great fun - cheeky and camp with some brilliant plot twists. Jimmy Walker & Billy Essex were wonderful as a gay masseuse & his nervous client. They handled the set breaking at a key moment well & managed not to corpse at the odd blocking thereafter. (55 of 2025)

"An Adequate Abridgement of Life as a Boarding School Homo" @ Theatre503 was clever engaging fringe theatre. The trials & tribulations of Johnny (Ned Blackburn) wittily played out against his lover/bully/teacher/headmaster/grandfather/former-pupil-who-left-suddenly (Harvey Weed) (54 of 2025)

Parody of the Rings @ Wiltons was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider... (53 of 2025)

Hamlet @nationaltheatre I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today... Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness. Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National. (52 of 2025)

#Clarkston is a challenging play. Two young men find friendship and attraction working nights at a Costco and dealing with (very different) challenges. Locke & Mollica make a compelling duo. (51 of 2025)

Entertaining Mr Sloane @ young vic A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end. (50 of 2025)

@kitkatclubldn for a magical 4th time. Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting.... Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes. The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside. (49 of 2025)

#BornWithTeeth is exceptional theatre. Marlowe at the height of fame taunts Shakespeare as they collaborate. The tension and erotic ties between them grow more intense whilst Cecil's spy network confounds. Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe. (48 of 2025)

Brigadoon @ Regents Park OAT was creatively staged with atmospheric use of bagpipes & classic musical theatre choreography. Louis Gaunt as Tommy Albright stole the show with a beautiful voice, hunky swagger. Great costuming invoked Scotland with tweed and subdued tartans (47 of 2025)

One of the weirdest and creepiest plays I've ever seen. *The Pitchfork Disney* @kingsheadtheatre builds from two troubled siblings to four truly bizarre characters in an almost indescribably weird one-room world. Wonderful performances of almost manic characters all round. (46 of 2025)

The Gathered Leaves @parktheatrelondon Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother. (45 of 2025)

The Daughter of Time was a clever, intriguing premise and story. A bed-ridden detective investigates one of the ultimate cold cases - the real Richard III before Tudor propaganda made him the evil hunchback. Well performed and enjoyable but very pedestrian staging. (44 of 2025)

A gloriously silly, queer version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lovers get very confused and Oberon shares a bath with an ass. The Mechanicals' play is as truly bonkers as they come. I somehow stayed wide awake and interested despite an early start and >35,000 steps. (43 of 2025)

Sean Hayes is absolutely spectacular as Oscar Levant - a fabulous wit and composer/pianist appearing on a talk show while commited to a mental hospital. (Based on a real event in Levant's life.) A exceptional play and performance that both definitely warranted the standing ovation. (42 of 2025)

Extraordinary Women @jermynstreettheatre is a beautifully performed musical based on Compton Mackenzie's novel. The dramas of a group of sapphic lovers are causing chaos in Sirene & the Sirens are worried. The novel was contemporary w Woolf's Orlando & somehow that explains a lot... (41 of 2025)

#Nye The @nationaltheatre at its best. Beautiful, powerful theatre. Michael Sheen & Sharon Small are brilliant as Nye Bevan & Jennie Lee. Bevan's mind on his death bed revisits key moments in his life as a miner, people's champion, politician and founder of the amazing NHS. (40 of 2025)

A couple open up their relationship for one time experiences with a beautiful friend. What could possibly go wrong? A clever play well performed, concentrating on exploring emotions and repercussions not unnecessary titillation. #FourPlay @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social (39 of 2025)

Clueless @ Trafalgar Theatre. Very well adapted and performed but nothing special - another adaptation of a 90s American highschool film. (38 of 2025)

Kings of Pangea @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social An intriguing musical with a wonderful premise but a slow start. A young boy/man dealing with hope & bereavement through allegory that's revealed to be a tale he built with his mother. (37 of 2025)

Mrs Warren's Profession is a clever George Bernard Shaw play about morality, money and social mores tied up in the strained relationship between mother and daughter. Imelda Staunton & Bessie Carter make a magnificent pair playing two powerful women living by unusual principles. (36 of 2025)

Godz by headfirstacrobats was gloriously silly, homoerotic acrobatics by some stunning A̶u̶s̶t̶r̶a̶l̶i̶a̶n̶ Greek gods. Excellent athletic performances tied together with cheesy acting. (35 of 2025)

last minute 🎭... Radiant Boy had great performances, especially Stuart Thompson as Russell manifesting his inner demon & interesting themes of religion, fear & queerness. Ultimately it was a miss for me & felt incomplete. (34 of 2025)

Shucked @ regents park open air🎭. A wonderful silly night of catchy music & v corny jokes. Steven Webb & Monique Ashe Palmer were great camp fun as storytellers 2&1, obviously revelling in camping it up & breaking the fourth wall a lot. A subplot about crops drying up played well in 🌧️🌧️🙂 (33 of 2025)

After the Act Powerful & timely 🎭 about Section 28 in the words of those responsible for it & harmed by it. Anyone who can't see the parallels between late 80s homophobia & today's anti-trans movement is wilfully ignorant. We need to break the cycle of bigotry not repeat it. (32 of 2025)

Pop off, Michelangelo. Gloriously camp entertainment. Michaelangelo & Leonardo da Vinci reimagined as power bottom best friends come enemies against a huge backdrop of totally not anachronistic cultural references and some vicious Medici patronage. (31 of 2025)

Faygele My first visit to the friendly little Marylebone 🎭. Ilan Galkoff is a powerful versatile wonder as Ari a tormented gay boy growing up in an orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn. He's summed up by two Yiddish euphemisms (one a slur) the "little bird who murdered himself alone" 😥 (30 of 2025)

The Comedy About Spies is mischief theatre at their finest - wickedly funny, clever, full of twists. High stakes espionage, a baker and a *loud* actor all caught up in the Piccadilly Hotel in 1961. (29 of 2025)