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Queerguru”s Andrew Hebden reviews Tell Me Straight …… ( and writes ‘settle for nothing less’)
Tell Me Straight ☆☆☆☆ Kings Head Theatre, London Tell Me Straight will sound off-putting to a lot of people. A play about a gay man who has a succession of hopeless relationships with straight men conjures up images of a self-loathing tragic character chasing the impossible, doomed to unhappiness because he would despise anyone who…
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PBS star-studded WICKED IN CONCERT includes the fabulous 89 year old RITA MORENO
PBS will mark Broadway’s return with Wicked IN CONCERT, a musical event celebrating the songs from one of the most iconic hits in Broadway history. This special performance will feature reimagined, never-before-heard musical arrangements created just for this broadcast, performed by celebrity artists from the worlds of film, pop music, and television. The evening is co-hosted by…
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Brut, My Beauty: Jean Dubuffet and Jean-Michel Basquiat
This weekend’s your last chance to catch Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty in the Barbican Gallery in London. It is the first major UK exhibition of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years. One of the most provocative voices in postwar modern art, Dubuffet rebelled against conventional ideas of beauty, hoping to capture the poetry…
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Queerguru’s Allison Ananis with her Music Picks for PTown’s Carnival Week
Last month gay icon Melissa Etheridge shared her new video for “For the Last Time,” the second single from the singer’s upcoming album One Way Out. The video shows Etheridge and her band recording the bluesy rock track in the studio. On One Way Out, Etheridge revisited nine tracks she wrote and demoed in the late 1980s…
