LGBTQ+ writing and stories

The following plays on our list contain LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes.

Showing 49-72 of 163 items.

Fat Ham

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

A dark and biting one-man, a huge hit at Edinburgh in 2022 and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023, starring Samuel Barnett.

First Time

A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.

Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays

New York-based Theatre troupe Five Lesbian Brothers explore themes of homophobia and sexism with devastating humour and the occasional song. They have been committed to creating provocative lesbian theatre with positively no whining since their inception in 1989.

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Five Years with the White Man

A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.

The Flea

A riotous play about the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889. Premiered at The Yard, London, in October 2023.

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Foam

A gripping play that examines the nature of identity and the consequences of right-wing extremist ideology against the backdrop of London's skinhead and gay scenes of the 1970s and 1980s.

Folk

Surprising and poignant, Folk is a hilarious and not-so-holy story of hope, coming together and finding your feet when your world is turned upside down.

Four Play

A comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.

The Funeral Director

An incisive and heartfelt play about sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. Winner of the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Futureproof

A magical and deeply compassionate play about identity and the capacities of the human spirit.

The Gay Heritage Project

An important piece of contemporary queer theatre, from three of Canada's most gifted performers.

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The Giant

A powerful, witty and moving play exploring the dark interplay between sexuality and creativity.

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God of Vengeance

Adapted from Sholom Asch's classic morality tale - a work of spellbinding power from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dinner With Friends.

Grotty

A dark and savage play exploring the London lesbian scene. 

Grotty & Brute: Two Plays

Two unflinching plays from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson.

Happy Meal

A joyful trans rom-com for the stage, following two initial strangers on their journeys from teen to adult; from MySpace to TikTok; from cis to trans...

A Hard Rain

A play about what happens when you push things underground, set in New York 1969 in the sweltering few days before the eruption of the Stonewall riots.

HEART

A raw and honest exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery. The debut play by acclaimed actor Jade Anouka.

Holding the Man (stage version)

The remarkable true-life love story, adapted from Timothy Conigrave's memoir of growing up gay in 1970s Melbourne.

Homos, or Everyone in America

A raw and provocative portrait of a love story, exploding attitudes, emotions and prejudices that sit at the heart of relationships across the world.

HOTHOUSE

A play that tackles climate breakdown with big ideas, a lot of laughs, and some truly grotesque cabaret numbers.

How We Begin

A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.

Hungry

A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.