Musical theatre icon Robert Madge toured through Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre last week with their one-person autobiographical West End hit My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?). The show focuses on Madge’s childhood, much of which was spent delivering elaborate (and camp) theatrical performances in their family living room....
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Three Spires Guildhall (TSG), a theatre society based in Coventry, returned to the Warwick Arts Centre last week for their annual musical. This year’s choice, the classic riches-to-more-academic-riches tale: Legally Blonde. The energy in the auditorium for their final performance on the evening of Saturday 15 June was palpable. Small...
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Rooster Teeth has closed down. Announced in an open letter by its general manager in March, operations officially ceased on May 15th 2024. The production company, most famous for its Halo machinima web-series Red vs Blue, had been operating since April 2003. In that time, it had grown to include...
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A study has shown that 43% of Gen Z and millennials in the US don’t consider themselves ‘readers’. However, these people apparently read quite a lot. The article suggests that these people don’t consider the ‘reading’ they do to count, raising questions over the definition of the term. Wikipedia defines...
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Yogscast have a long history with podcasts, dating back to 2009 with The Yogpod. Now, they have an entire podcast network – Pickaxe. As one might expect, a lot of the podcasts on this network revolve around games. The Chance & Counters Podcast is no exception, being hosted by founding...
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Many people know of John Green as a prolific author, YouTuber, and podcaster. His biggest podcast, Dear Hank and John, is a respectable advice-giving show hosted by John and his brother, who has an equally impressive resume. The Anthropocene Reviewed is more of a solo venture. The Anthropocene is the semi-official...
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The Bad Gays podcast is hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, who discuss ‘evil and complicated queers in history’. Each episode is about a particular individual and seems to be structured as a pre-prepared biography followed by more general discussion. Podcasts like this and Do Go On, and really...
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I love musical theatre. I especially love good musical theatre. A good musical is like a good album: it tells a story with a couple of bangers, a few filler tracks that you can appreciate for what they are, and one or two real stinkers. This article is about those...
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As a child, I took New Year’s resolutions very seriously. They were a chance to try and be better with a commitment long enough to preserve your new proclivities as permanent parts of your personality. My family still regale people with my 2012 success story, when I dropped my fussy...
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While there are podcasts entirely dedicated to the holiday (as well as podcasts dedicated to every other thing you could possibly imagine), people don’t tend to have favourite Christmas podcasts in the same way they might a Christmas film or song. Podcasts may recognise the holidays any number of ways....
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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Boar, our most recent print edition was themed around the 1970s, when the newspaper was founded. While other sections are able to publish articles about media from that time, podcasts were tragically not yet invented. In lieu of this, therefore, allow me...
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Squirmy and Grubs, excuse me, Hannah and Shane, have been working in the disability and accessibility space for a long time. Way back in 2011, Shane Burcaw began a blog: Laughing at My Nightmare. When that gained traction, he and his cousin Sarah founded a charity of the same name,...
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) escaped to Naples and subsequently to Malta after being banished from Rome for murdering a young man, most likely in a bar fight. It was here, nearly 400 years after his death, that I encountered him in the shape of an oil painting named The...
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