It’s reassuring that the Royal Court continues to be a fertile ground for experimentation in an era where provocative plays are en vogue. They weren’t always: Sarah Kane’s Blasted premiered here in ...

Attitude has been given an exclusive first look at Cowbois, the new play from the award-winning Charlie Josephine. Last year, Josephine brought I, Joan to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Now they’re back ...

“There’s something about the swagger of a cowboy that is just really sexy,” says Charlie Josephine, the acclaimed playwright behind Cowbois, a big queer Western show that tells the story of a handsome ...

The queer side of cowboy culture was never exactly hidden, but it’s flying its spangled flag especially proudly right now. From the darkly sensual country anthems of Lil Nas X and Orville Peck to ...

A rollicking queer Western like nothing you’ve seen before. Grab your stetson and spurs and join us in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Cowbois by ...

Fun gun: Sophie Melville and Vinnie Heaven in ‘Cowbois’. Set in a contemporary version of 1880s Wild West, entirely in the local saloon, the story is about a wanted outlaw, Jack Cannon, who rides into ...

Dream cast and exuberant staging brings the genre’s dusty rules to a whole new frontier A sleepy US town in the late 19th century: the husbands are away, the wives are stewing, the sheriff is sloshed ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Royal Court Theatre have confirmed the London transfer of Charlie Josephine’s play Cowbois. Co-directed by Josephine (they/he) and Sean Holmes (he/him), the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Wild West just got a little wilder. In Charlie Josephine’s mischievous spoof-Western Cowbois, it’s not ...

Gender identity comes to town in writer-co-director Charlie Josephine’s atmospheric but slow-going tale of a disruptive stranger Last year, in I, Joan, at London’s Globe theatre, writer Charlie ...