Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell were the very best of friends. They met at a London drama school, and for ten years they lived together, visited friends together, took their vacations together. In ...

Thirty years after Stephen Frears’ “Prick Up Your Ears” first landed in theaters, the drama about Joe Orton’s meteoric rise to the top of the London theater scene and violent death, still feels fresh, ...

Con O'Neil has been cast as Matt Lucas's replacement in the West End production of Simon Brent's Prick Up Your Ears. Lucas left the role of Kenneth Halliwell in the play based on Joe Orton's life ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit a cinematic ode to a groundbreaking queer playwright, 1987’s Prick Up Your Ears. A large number of ...

At the end of Prick Up Your Ears, the movie about the successful playwright Joe Orton, his lover and murderer, the failed writer Kenneth Halliwell, stands in front of a mirror and says that he, ...

Chris New is playwright Joe Orton in the new stage play of Prick Up Your Ears, starring opposite Little Britain’s Matt Lucas as his lover-murderer Kenneth Halliwell and Gwen Taylor as the couple’s ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British comedian Matt Lucas will not return to his role in a West End play which he temporarily quit following the suicide of his ex-partner, producers said on Monday. Lucas, ...

“I was saying to my friend the other day that just proves being gay doesn’t change anything. Everybody has all the faults and failings of everybody else. A gay friend of mine said, ‘Just because I’m ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. There are the events of 1966, detailed in Joe Orton's diaries on which the play ...