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Buyer and Cellar
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 11th Mar - 19th Apr 2020
by Jonathan Tolins One man’s adventures in Barbra’s basement! An out of work actor is hired for a mysterious job at an undisclosed location - and finds himse…
The Morning After
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 22nd Jan - 1st Mar 2020
by Peter Quilter 22 January – 1 MarchMain House Thomas wakes up surprised and naked in a young man’s bed, and memories of last night’s one-night-stand …
Four Play
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 15th Jan - 22nd Feb 2020
by Jake Brunger A comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.
Pinocchio - No Strings Attached!
- Listing Pantomime
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 19th Nov 2019 - 11th Jan 2020
The story of a lonely woodcutter who lovingly carves a boy out of wood is gobsmackingly reimagined as a dazzling adult pantomime.
STOP KISS
- Review
- ★★★★
- Amber Jackson
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 12th Nov, 2019
Above The Stag Theatre yet again provides us with a beautifully handled love story, whilst sensitively exploring societal issues that LGBTQ+ individuals face.
Free Screening: Hocus Pocus
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 31st Oct 2019
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teen-agers, a young girl, and an immortal cat …
Free Screening: The Birdcage
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 30th Oct 2019
Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane and Dianne Wiest lead the laughs in this wild comedy that insists you don't have to be a woman to be a mother.
The Good Scout
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Christopher Kelsey
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 29th Oct, 2019
Friends are often made under unusual circumstances.
Pangaea
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 23rd Oct - 17th Nov 2019
by Erik Champney "This isn’t Christmas.
Velvet
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 7th Oct, 2019
To compile his one-man show, Velvet, Tom Ratcliffe combined personal experience and the disturbing revelations that emerged as the #MeToo movement gathered momentum.
Rehearsed Reading: Cheaper by the Hour
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 27th Sep 2019
by Matthew Baldwin FREE EVENT There's a cynical old saying, "If it floats, flies or f***s, it's cheaper by the hour".
Rehearsed Reading: Snowdrop
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 26th Sep 2019
by Gene David Kirk FREE EVENT A play based on actual events Coming to the end of their peacekeeping tour of duty, Ian and John grow desperate to realise their unlawful a…
Rehearsed Reading: After The Morning
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 25th Sep 2019
by Don Cotter FREE EVENT London.
Rehearsed Reading: Control
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 24th Sep 2019
by Tim McArthur FREE EVENT Most gay men have quite complex personalities, insecurities, acceptance issues in society, commitment issues in relationships and levels of pa…
Now & Then
- Review
- ★★★★
- Amber Jackson
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 16th Sep, 2019
Beginning in 1978, aspiring musician Daniel (Dylan Wynford) meets wannabe comedian Greg (Freddie Woodyatt) at an open mic night.
Making Porn
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 31st Jul - 8th Sep 2019
by Ronnie Larsen directed by Andrew Beckett A hilarious look at the gay porn industry. Jack Hawk, a straight, out-of-work actor, finally gets a break! He’s signed up to star in Cops, the latest skin-flick from gay porn director Arthur Mack…
The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 29th Jul 2019
EDINBURGH PREVIEW It's 1616.
Reuben Kaye - Journey to the Centre of Attention
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 25th - 27th Jul 2019
Above The Stag Theatre is very excited to present multi-award winning international cabaret sensation Reuben Kaye.
Closer to Heaven
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 3rd Jul - 4th Aug 2019
by Jonathan Harvey with music and lyrics by Pet Shop Boysdirected by Steven Dexter A thrilling musical with original songs by Pet Shop Boys, set against the backdrop of Soho’s pulsing nightlife…
Happily Ever Poofter
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 1st - 2nd Jul 2019
Like Disney? Raging homosexual? Then you'll love Happily Ever Poofter. Prince Henry – heir to the throne of a kingdom far, far away – is on a quest to find true love and live happily ever after…
Boy Toy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Christopher Kelsey
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 30th Jun, 2019
Above the Stag is – now that has two separate performance spaces – able to put on a dance production for the first time in its history. Boy Toy is a re-imagining of the well-known comic ballet Coppelia…
Fanny & Stella: The Shocking True Story
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Christopher Kelsey
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 13th May, 2019
The latest offering in Above The Stag’s main auditorium takes us back in time to a Victorian Working Men’s Club in Bermondsey. There we are introduced to two men – William Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, more commonly known as Fanny and Stella…
Boom Bang-a-Bang
- Review
- ★★★★
- Christopher Kelsey
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 9th May, 2019
May is here, so we are now in one of the highlights of the homosexual calendar – Eurovision.
Andy Bell is Torsten in... QUEERETERIA TV
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 10th - 28th Apr 2019
Post-Armageddon in a England of the near future, a merry band of surviving dysfunctional queers take over the television station and recreate, in excruciatingly diva driven pastiche, their all time favourite TV programme ‘Club Queereteria’ broadcast live from the ruins of a infamous cruising club…
Goodbye Norma Jeane
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 16th Mar - 7th Apr 2019
by Liam Burke directed by Robert McWhir Jack Cole taught Hollywood to dance. Now he's writing a weekly column for Dance Magazine. Or trying to: young men splash and yell in his swimming pool outside, and as the afternoon wears on a parade of his former muses arrives at his front door - Betty Grable, Jane Russell and Rita Hayworth among them…
Romance Romance
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 12th Mar - 6th Apr 2019
Book & lyrics Barry Harman | Music Keith Herrmann This charming and intelligent musical brings together two contrasting stories, set 100 years apart. In late 19th Century Vienna, two bored high-society lovers disguise themselves as struggling members of the working class…
Cut Before Curtain Up!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 10th Mar 2019
Devised by William Spencer Join us for an afternoon of cabaret featuring lost gems from Chicago, Gypsy, Little Shop of Horrors, Aladdin and more. A celebration of songs cut from musicals before opening night…
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- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 13th Feb - 10th Mar 2019
Jeff and Hunter have a dream – and that dream is for their work to be selected for the upcoming New York Musical Theatre Festival.The submissions deadline is only three weeks away, and our heroes don’t actually have a musical to perform…
James Barr: Thirst Trap
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 7th - 8th Feb 2019
Dating in 2018 is a total disaster! MTV presenter, comedian and co-host of the UK's leading LGBTQ+ award-nominated podcast A Gay And A NonGay, and tragically single James Barr unleashes a hilarious attempt to finally meet The One – and it could be you! Join him on his wedding day as he dishes the dirt on his ridiculous romantic life, and dates the audience to find his way up the aisle…
IAN McKELLEN ON STAGE
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 6th Feb 2019
Ambassador Theatre Group presents IAN MCKELLEN ON STAGE With Tolkien, Shakespeare, others…and you! A message from Ian McKellen: I’m celebrating my 80th birthday by touring a new solo show to theatres I know well and a few that I don’t…
IAN McKELLEN ON STAGE
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 6th Feb 2019
Ambassador Theatre Group presents IAN MCKELLEN ON STAGE With Tolkien, Shakespeare, others…and you! A message from Ian McKellen: I’m celebrating my 80th birthday by touring a new solo show to theatres I know well and a few that I don’t…
Extra Virgin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Christopher Kelsey
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 25th Jan, 2019
Extra Virgin tells the story of the awkward minutes after a Grindr hook-up. It begins with an orgasm, but then very cleverly builds up to a much bigger emotional climax by the end of the play…
Grindr: The Opera!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 17th Jan - 16th Feb 2019
Grindr: The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, Grindr: The Opera! is a daring, humorous look at the changing landscape of gay relationships, and the greatest catalyst for the shift: Grindr.
Mother Goose Cracks One Out!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 2nd - 12th Jan 2019
by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper songs by Jon Bradfield directed by Andrew Beckett designed by David Shields Celebrating 10 years of Above The Stag Theatre's adult pantomimes! Kind-hearted Mother Goose and her gay son Tommy live in poverty in the generic northern mill town of Rugburn…
Mother Goose Cracks One Out!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 27th Nov 2018 - 12th Jan 2019
Book now for next year's fabulously filthy adult panto at Above The Stag Theatre. UNRESERVED SEATING ON ALL PERFORMANCES OF MOTHER GOOSE CRACKS ONE OUT
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 21st Nov - 22nd Dec 2018
by Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell One story - five mini musicals! This affectionate and hilarious send-up tells one story in five distinctive musical theatre styles…
Wilde About Whitman
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 7th Nov 2018
A new play by David Simpatico Simon Callow and Orlando James in a reading of Wilde About Whitman. SOLD OUT On January 18, 1882, Oscar Wilde, 27, and Walt Whitman, 62, spent three hours together behind closed doors in Whitman's home in Camden, New Jersey…
10th Anniversary Celebration
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 27th Oct 2018
This event is currently open to MEMBERS ONLY with a promotional code. We’ve come a long, long way since that little function room above The Stag pub… To celebrate our 10th anniversary we are hosting an evening of live performance highlights from the past decade plus a post-show wine and canapé reception in our fabulous bar…
Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 19th Oct - 18th Nov 2018
Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club By Jonathan HarveyDirected by Steven DexterDesigned by David Shields Lighting designed by Jamie PlattFrom the writer of Beautiful ThingJonathan Harvey’s heart-wrenching and hilarious play about five people who are irrational, lonely, loving, a little bit crazy, and very real…
Happy Ending
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 2nd - 7th Oct 2018
A comedy by Ronnie Larsen Directed by Andrew Beckett A gay man, a straight man and a massage table…
Kids Play
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 24th Sep, 2018
Kids Play is now running in London following its triumph at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received multiple five star reviews. It was also given the Broadway Baby Bobby Award as a mark of its excellence…
Maurice
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 12th Sep - 21st Oct 2018
by E. M. Forster A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, Maurice is adapted from E.M. Forster’s intensely personal novel. Completed in 1914 it remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970...
Grindr: The Opera!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 3rd Jul - 26th Aug 2018
by Erik Ransom UNRESERVED SEATING ON ALL PERFORMANCES OF GRINDR: THE OPERA Grindr: The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera...
The Chemsex Monologues
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 1st - 4th Jul 2018
A nameless narrator meets a sexy boy on a Vauxhall night out, who introduces him to G’s pleasures; a club night poster boy gets taken to Old Mother Meth’s place by a porn star; Fag Hag Cath is finding the chillouts have become more about the sex; Daniel is a sexual health worker who does community outreach in the saunas; and the nameless narrator meets up with his sexy boy again...
The Penetration Play
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 26th Jun - 21st Jul 2018
Rain is in love with her best friend, Ash. It's possible Ash feels the same way. Except that now Ash is falling for Rich to the delight of her mother, Maggie. Over the course of an evening, all three women will experience the bittersweet consequences of desire...
Beautiful Thing
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 10th - 29th Jun 2018
We are thrilled to open our new, larger home on 1 June with a 25th anniversary production of Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey. The production marks the beginning of a retrospective of the playwright's work that will continue over the next few years...
Joe Orton: The Musical
- Review
- ★★
- UK Regional & Tours
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 15th Apr, 2014
‘Above the Stag’ (ATS) is one of the most distinctive and necessary production houses in London. For the last four years it has been mounting in-yer-face yet populist queer theatre of a kind found hardly anywhere else...
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