BLUE NOW : A film by Derek Jarman, performed live

  BLUE was Derek Jarman’s final film. Completed in May 1993, just months before his death, it is his testament. For 74 minutes, an unchanging screen of celestial blue is accompanied by voices that deliver a collage of fragments from Jarman’s diary, describing the gradual onset of blindness as he battles with HIV. As his … Continue reading

Blue Valentine

Last January at my first Sundance I discovered movie fatigue.  Well, that’s what I thought at the time when I came out of a screening of ‘Blue Valentine’ extremely under whelmed, yet seemingly everyone else there was raving (!) about the film. Flash forward to now when the movie  is on the big screen at the … Continue reading

Blythely Ever After : a musical journey through the life of the tender, testosterone-filled tenor of the century

  Blithely Ever After is a musical journey through the life of the tender, testosterone-filled tenor of the century, Blythely Oratonio. Known as the outrageous alter ego of renowned mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe,  Drawing on the interdisciplinary roots of the cabaret form, Oratonio mixes opera, pop, rock and roll, and a fair amount of facial hair … Continue reading

Bob Mackie (almost) sails into PTown on the QM2

Legendary Costume Designer Bob Mackie was on his annual visit to Ptown to see his old friend the jazz singer Marilyn Maye perform whilst he continues to work on the costumes for The Cher Show opening on Broadway in the Fall. when he stopped by Queerguru to talk about dressing gay icons and so much more.   … Continue reading

Bob Mackie designs for The Cher Show are Broadway Bound

One of the highlights of QUEERGURU’s summer season in PTown is that for the past three years the legendary costume designer BOB MACKIE has very graciously allowed us to interrupt his vacation here to film an exclusive interview with us. He usually makes the pilgrimage to town to support his very good friend the jazz … Continue reading

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