Out And About
Published: October 13, 2016
Written by Cary Gee
I can’t even remember the day the letter arrived. Certainly no one bothered to wait at home for the mail. Least of all me. I had a valley to conquer …
I can’t even remember the day the letter arrived. Certainly no one bothered to wait at home for the mail. Least of all me. I had a valley to conquer …
Sid Above the Arts Theatre London Leon Fleming’s one man show, Sid, is ostensibly about one punk rocker’s fixation with Sid Vicious. Never mind that Sid may have killed his …
The UK Parliament boasts more ‘out’ LGBT members than any other parliament in the world. I was recently commissioned to interview some of them for the gay glossy magazine Pride …
Britten In Brooklyn Wilton’s Music Hall, London In Britten in Brooklyn writer Zoe Lewis presents a snapshot of life in 7 Middagh Street, NYC, where Benjamin Britten escaped war-torn …
As a play about Keir Hardie opens in London, Cary Gee speaks to writer James Kenworth, director James Martin Charlton and actor Samuel Casely From the same creative team …
Tiger Lillies Soho Theatre, London Beneath a bloody moon the macabre, clown-like Martyn Jacques picks up an accordion and takes a deep breath. Too much breath. His lungs seem …
When BBCRadio 4 presenter Sima Kotectcha visited her home town of Basingstoke to conduct a discussion about immigration just days after the vote to leave the EU, the very last …
An Evening With Marc Almond Royal Festival Hall Thank goodness for heatproof mascara. It’s thirty degrees on the South Bank but Marc Almond’s fans are easy to spot. They are …
What’s the point of Gay Pride? is a question I’m often asked by ‘straight’ people. This is often followed by an insistence that my interrogator has ‘no problem with gay’s, …
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI Garsington Opera, Wormsley Hall Celebrated interpreter of Rossini, David Parry, returns to Garsington (now at Mark Getty’s Wormsley estate) with The Italian Girl in Algiers directed by …
The View From Islington North Arts Theatre, London
STOP THE CLOCKS: THOUGHTS ON WHAT I LEAVE BEHIND by Joan Bakewell Virago £18.99
The Amazing Devil Gerry’s Club, London
Between Boris Johnson’s apocalyptic invocation of the Fuhrer, and the worthless, bitter moaning of Nigel Farage and the affluent from Broadstairs and Basingstoke, it’s easy to forget that those who …
Donovan London Palladium
Funny Girl Savoy Theatre, London
Guys and Dolls Phoenix Theatre, London
Feinstein Ensemble: Bach Mass in B Minor Kings Place, London
A YouGov opinion poll published 10 days before Londoners go to the polls to elect a new mayor put Labour’s Sadiq Khan 20 points ahead of Zac Goldsmith.
Cary Gee talks to the legendary Kinky Friedman – singer, songwriter, novelist, columnist, humourist and politician
Shazia Mirza: The Kardashians Made Me Do It Soho Theatre, London
“I’m Out and Proud”, declared Boris Johnson as he appealed to the LGBT community in Britain to vote “Leave” in the European Union referendum.
Cary Gee has seen a new musical that recounts some strange but true nuclear history