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27 March 2012New play about gay boxer to open at Albany Theatre 3 A new high-impact, one-man show about a boxer facing his toughest opponent yet - his sexuality - is set to open at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, south-east London, having won five 5-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe. -
27 March 2012Obituary: New York photographer and actor Cris Alexander 8 New York photographer and actor Cris Alexander has died, aged 92. -
14 March 2012Review: Derren Brown’s Svengali 5 Heather Price discusses Derren Brown's current tour, Svengali, and how his eerie brand of mind-reading left her with trouble sleeping afterwards. -
16 February 2012Chris Colfer and Kevin Bacon join Proposition 8 play 10 Actors Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer and John C Reilly join a swelling number of celebrities signing up to star in Dustin Lance Black's Proposition 8 play next month. -
1 February 2012Theatre review: Execution of Justice 2 Execution of Justice, at the Southwark Playhouse in London until Saturday 4 February, tells the story of the assassination of San Francisco Mayor, George Moscone and openly gay District Supervisor, Harvey Milk on 27 November 1978. -
27 January 2012Cynthia Nixon: Bisexuals? We get no respect 77 After causing a storm of controversy this week when referring to being gay as a "choice" Cynthia Nixon seems to have reluctantly acknowledged that she is, in fact, bisexual. -
26 January 2012UK survey: 81% of actors ‘open about sexuality’ 14 In a new survey of the acting industry, eight in ten actors said they were 'out' professionally and three quarters of respondents said the decision to come out had not hindered their career. -
20 January 2012Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrisson in Prop 8 play 4 Glee stars Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison are the latest stars to sign up to the one-night-only LA production of Dustin Lance Black's play about the Proposition 8 ballot. -
6 January 2012Sir Ian McKellen says “no doubt” Shakespeare was gay 48 Sir Ian McKellen has reportedly said he has "no doubt" the complexities and plot devices of Shakespeare's work mean the playwright was gay. -
29 December 2011Interview: Simon Callow on Dickens, Peggy Ramsay and being gay 8 Laurence Watts meets the celebrated actor, theatre director, writer and biographer, renowned for his mastery of Shakespeare and Dickens whose film credits include Amadeus, A Room with a View, Maurice, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love and The Phantom of the Opera. -
14 December 2011George Clooney to star in second production of Dustin Lance Black’s Proposition 8 play 9 George Clooney has confirmed he will star in the second one-night-only production of Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's Proposition 8 play. -
13 December 2011Interview: Russell Grant on Strictly Come Dancing and returning to his theatrical roots 6 Russell Grant talks to Laurence Watts about his accidental fame in astrology, exceeding expectations on Strictly Come Dancing, and asking Holly Valance to star in a lesbian production of Romeo and Juliet. -
8 December 2011Theatre company appeals for trans scriptwriters 4 A UK theatre company is seeking submissions of short plays about transgender issues to be performed in Manchester next year, and says no previous script-writing experience is necessary. -
29 November 2011Alan Cumming to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in new one-man production 6 The National Theatre of Scotland has announced it will be staging a one-man version of Macbeth featuring Alan Cumming as both the title character and his ambitious wife. -
25 October 2011Interview: Jonathan Harvey on writing, Corrie and Beautiful Thing 10 After early success as a playwright, Jonathan Harvey's career now spans theatre, film and television. -
7 September 2011Actors’ union to ask gay members about homophobia 13 Equity, the union for actors and performers, is to ask its LGBT members whether they feel safe being out and if they have suffered prejudice. -
16 July 2011Ben Daniels rejects Rupert Everett’s advice for aspiring gay actors not to come out 26 Ben Daniels, star of the BBC hit series Cutting It, has dismissed claims made by Hollywood star Rupert Everett that it is better for aspiring gay actors to stay in the closet despite homophobia he experienced at the BBC. -
31 December 2010Christopher Biggins: Chris Bryant absurd to think ‘pantomime dame’ jibe was homophobic 43 The actor, and sometime pantomime dame Christopher Biggins has said the openly gay Labour MP Chris Bryant is "ridiculous" for believing the chancellor George Osborne was being homophobic when he jokingly described the MP as a "pantomime dame." -
24 August 2010Interview: Jonathan Hellyer, star of Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens + Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, currently at the Shaw Theatre, is a tapestry of monologues and songs inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. -
30 July 2010Theatre review: Bent 2 Bent, at the intimate Tabard Theatre in Parsons Green, west London, tells the story of a young gay couple sent to a concentration camp after witnessing the murder of a German SA officer.
