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  • Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday with some queer & gender productions of his work online

    Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday with some queer & gender productions of his work online

      To celebrate William Shakespeare’s April 26th birthday (he’s not quite 500 yet!) here are some great queer and gender productions of some of his finest plays available to view online Brit queer director Phyllida Lloyd mounted an  all-female trilogy of plays comprising Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest  playing at London’s Donmar Warehouse…

  • Legendary : a new vogueing competition from HBO

    Legendary : a new vogueing competition from HBO

      Vogueing lives on, well at least on TV.  HBO is launching  LEGENDARY a brand new series which will see competitors from eight different ballroom houses vying for legendary status.    Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of…

  • Michael Urie hangs out with Barbra Striesand to talk about her dolls

    Michael Urie hangs out with Barbra Striesand to talk about her dolls

      Michael Urie just reprised his role in Buyer & Cellar  a one-man play by Jonathan Tolins for which he won a Clarence Derwent Award for his performance  as well as a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in 2013.  The play is a comedy that follows Alex More, a struggling gay actor working in Los Angeles, who is down on…

  • The Lost Boys of Fire Island 2019

    The Lost Boys of Fire Island 2019

    Just in case we are not allowed out all summer (!) here’s a reminder of what we will be missing.  Well, if we were planning to spend it on Fire Island……   Filmed  by Brian Emerrick