Terence Blanchard’s ‘Champion: An Opera in Jazz’ the story of a queer man in a macho world

  Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera in Jazz (2013) tells the real-life story of world champion boxer Emile Griffith, a man haunted by memories of his past who struggled to reconcile his sexuality in a hyper-macho world. This groundbreaking work combining the disciplines of opera and jazz, was co-commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in … Continue reading

Terence Blanchard’s opera CHAMPION about legendary gay boxer Emile Griffith heads for The Met in NY

  Terence Blanchard’s six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s operatic retelling of the dramatic story of gay boxer Emile Griffith arrives in New York. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the closeted young hatmaker-turned-prizefighter, who rises from obscurity to become world champion and, in one of the great tragedies in sports history, kills his homophobic archrival in … Continue reading

Terrence MacNally’s Love Valor & Compassion: a stunning emotionally charged production

  Provincetown’s rightful claim to being so instrumental in the birth of the American Theater seems even more secure now that David Drake has taken on the role of standard bearer.  Since he stepped into role as the Artistic Director of The Provincetown Theater earlier this year he has started to fill the place with … Continue reading

TERRI

Terri is a fat adolescent boy who lives with his ailing uncle in a small suburban town. He is a bit of a loner who insists on wearing pajamas to school (cos they’re comfortable) and he is teased relentlessly by the other pupils at school and totally ignored by all the teachers until one day … Continue reading

Terror Nullius : Movie bingo Aussie style

  Terror Nullius is an anarchic 55 minute scrapbook of hundreds of movies and TV programs sewn together to deliver a two fingered salute to the Crocodile Dundee notion of colonial white Aussie manhood. Crudely clever, but lacking a continuous narrative, it manages to suggest a whole load of cinematic what-if scenarios that film makers could embrace … Continue reading

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