ADAM LAMBERT - Out In The City

CALENDAR EVENTS//MAY 2010
13 MAY-18 JULY: Following its success last year, the
E4 Udderbelly will be returning to the Southbank this summer,
with another jam-packed schedule of comedy, music and other
entertainment. Like last year, there are several gay acts of particular
interest, or acts who have already made an impression
on London’s gay cabaret scene. Highlights include appearances
from Ida Barr (22nd, 29th May, 12th June) and Tina C (15 May
and 3 July), and the ‘Eurovision Alternative’ (24 May), which will
feature ten of the campest, most outrageous and twisted acts
from the capital’s alternative cabaret scene. Neo-cabaret stars
Frisky & Mannish (3rd, 10th, 17 June, 9 July) will be performing,
alongside household names such as Alexei Sayle (14 July), Sandi
Toksvig (25 May), Ben Fogle (27-28 June), Irish legend Tommy
Tiernan (4-5 June) and Ardal O’Hanlon (25, 26, 27 June). The
headline show is Brazil! Brazil! (pictured left), which opens on
15th June. In World Cup Year, and as part of Southbank Centre’s
Festival Brazil, it’s a 70-minute explosion of capoeira, street
football, acrobatics and live music to entertain all ages.
Box office: 0844 847 9910
www.udderbelly.co.uk
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/udderbelly
23 APR-3 JUL
We plugged this last month but it remains one of May’s
highlights too. Australian box-office hit Holding the Man comes
to the Trafalgar Studios this spring. It’s based on the celebrated
and awarded autobiography by the late Australian writer
Timothy Conigrave, which he finished just before he died from an
AIDS-related illness in 1994. The play looks back on Conigrave’s
life, and, in particular, being young and gay in 1970s Melbourne.
That’s where he fell in the love with the football team’s captain
at an all-male Melbourne high school (the title of the piece is an
Australian footballing term).
This award-winning stage adaptation was loved by both
audiences and critics when it first opened in Sydney in 2007. The
director of the original production, David Berthold, has recreated
the play for its UK premiere. It features the West End debut of
Australian comic actress Jane Turner, who is internationally
famous as the writer and star of Kath and Kim. Tickets cost £26-
£44. Box Office: 0844 871 7632 – www.holdingtheman.com
27 APRIL, 10 & 20
MAY:
01-02 MAY:
01 MAY-23 JUNE
For anyone interested in the development of 20th century art,
the V&A will be hosting Modern Masters: Matisse, Picasso, Dali
And Warhol – between 1 May and 23 June. This small show will
feature over 50 prints from all four featured artists, drawn from
the V&A’s archives. The works have been selected to illustrate
these modern masters’ engagement with the printed medium,
and on display will be work in a range of techniques, spanning
a period of 75 years. www.vam.ac.uk
MARILYN MONROE SCREENPRINT ANDY WARHOL© THE ANDY WARHOL
FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC./ARS, NY AND DACS, LONDON 2001