This powerful documentary musical is playing at the Royal Court following a run at the intimate New Diorama Theatre and an acclaimed national tour. The Act in question is Section 28, a law that banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools from 1988 to 2003. Featuring a 1980s-style dance-pop score, the show spotlights the actions of students, teachers and activists who lived through this period through transcripts and other archival material. LondonTheatre.co.uk’s reviewer admired the way it is “Filled with righteous anger as well as tongue-in-cheek anarchy”.

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First performed in 2022 at the Soho Theatre, The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs is setting up office in north London’s Kiln Theatre for Pride Month. Iman Qureshi’s play with music tells the story of the UK’s only lesbian choir who rehearse in a shabby hall every week in the hope of winning a slot on the Pride mainstage. Choirs are always rife with politics and building a sisterhood in which everyone is singing in harmony isn’t straightforward. It’s a heart-warming and mind-expanding experience for everyone.

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This two-hander by American playwright Harrison David Rivers is directed by Billy Porter (Tony winner for Kinky Boots and recently seen in the West End in Cabaret) and stars Omari Douglas (Black Doves, It’s a Sin) and Alexander Lincoln (Emmerdale). The play explores tensions between Jesse, an introverted Black playwright, whose boyfriend Neil, a white Black Lives Matter activist, calls him out on his political apathy.

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Terence Rattigan was a gay man at a time when homosexual relationships were illegal (homosexuality was only decriminalised in 1967, a decade before his death) and divorce was a scandal. Following the suicide (a crime until 1961) of his younger lover, Rattigan wrote the first draft of The Deep Blue Sea (first performed in 1952), which explored a relationship between two men. The protagonist was then rewritten as a woman who has left her husband for a younger man. According to LondonTheatre.co.uk’s reviewer, Tamsin Greig, currently playing the lead role of Hester at Theatre Royal Haymarket, is “quietly devastating” and “a master of dry wit”.

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Oscar Wilde is one of the most iconic figures in gay (and theatrical) history and this new show, arriving in London from New York, is billed as a “dystopian dance party musical”. Set in a purpose-built bunker on Tottenham Court Road, the end of the world is nigh and all that remains is killer vocals, reality TV, and the complete works of Oscar Wilde. It’s sure to be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before!

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Kander and Ebb’s musical Cabaret is based on the autobiographical novel Goodbye to Berlin by gay writer Christopher Isherwood (a near contemporary of Terence Rattigan). Set in 1920s Berlin, the Kit Kat Club is a haven of gender fluidity and sexual experimentation. However, while Sally Bowles and the Emcee get most of the attention, it’s the queer ex-pat writer Cliff who is the anchor of the story.

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In August, you can see one of Shakespeare’s queerest plays at the Globe. Twelfth Night tells the story of the clever and resourceful Viola who, after being shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin, Sebastian, disguises herself as a boy called Cesario and gets a job as a page to the Count Orsino. Orsino is trying to woo noblewoman Olivia, who falls for Viola/Cesario, while Viola develops feelings for her master... Robin Belfield’s production promises to unleash the joy of self-expression and the power of love.

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Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe was an all-round hellraiser who has been claimed as a queer icon. It ought to be the perfect role for Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa, who recently dazzled audiences in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre. In Liz Duffy Adams’s play, directed by Royal Shakespeare Company co-artistic director Daniel Evans, Marlowe and his arch-rival William Shakespeare (My Lady Jane’s Edward Bluemel) are locked in the backroom of a pub room together and words and sparks start to fly…

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Musical theatre and all things LGBT+ go together like peanut butter and jelly. Everyone and everything is shamelessly skewered and mocked in Mel Brooks’s outrageous musical comedy, no matter how taboo. Naturally, gay culture, like Jewish culture, is lampooned to an absurd degree. The show returns to the West End in the autumn starring Andy Nyman. Keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay!

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James Cameron’s blockbuster movie, based on the real-life tragedy, is hilariously sent up in this musical comedy in which power ballad diva Celine Dion is our guide and the real hero of the story. In a five-star review, LondonTheatre.co.uk’s reviewer observed that a highlight of the show is the “Unsinkable” Molly Brown “taking Dion’s heartfelt lyrics and giving them a bawdy twist with the help of a giant aubergine”. Prepare for a torrential wave of camp!

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