The annual TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATER FESTIVAL is one of THE cultural highlights of PROVINCETOWN’s year. This celebration of the work of this legendary American writer honors the fact he spent 4 summers here in the 1940’s and created some of his finest work here. During this time he fell in love with a young man named KIp , and some 40 years later he wrote about it in SOMETHING CLOUDY SOMETHING CLEAR.
This is part of the 2024 program ,and so Queerguru caught up with actor Luke Philip Bosco who has been cast to play the part of Kip. He has also been cast in one of William’s most well known plays THE GLASS MENAGARIE that will also playing in repertoire in this years Festival.
This is also proving to be a red-letter year for Luke as his second movie JANET PLANET is just about to be released ….so we had a lot to talk about.
SEP 26 - SEP 29
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival 2024
With the 16th Edition of the prestigious Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival about to start, Queerguru sat down with Curator David Kaplan to take about this year’s exciting and diverse program
Tennesse Williams will always be a favored son in PTown where he often summered & wrote some of his best work. The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival is about to hold its 17th Edition where it celebrates his work with some extraordinary stunning re-interpretations of some of his most well-known pieces and introduces some unknown gems.
We talked with a very excited Curator/Co-Founder David Kaplan on what goodies we can expect this year.
Back in 2015 we started Queerguru aiming high as one of the very first exclusive interviews we filmed was with Hollywood star and matinee idol Tab Hunter. He was so totally charming and generous , and he exceeded every expectation we had of him. One of the surprises of his career that we discussed was how he stepped away from playing squeaky clean jocks in 1981 to co star in POLYESTER a John Waters movie alongside the great Divine. A Waters movie could be described in many ways but certainly not squeaky or clean.
Also in that movie was a John Waters regular and favorite ….Mink Stole …. who in fact has starred in all of Waters feature films. So we jumped at the chance of an interview with Mink when we found out she was heading to PTown … our home town … and also summer home of John Waters too. She is coming as the Special Guest at a Fundraising Banquet for Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival a major cultural institution especially as Williams had both resided here for some years but also wrote some of his best work here too.
It was an opportunity to good to waste, and though we didn’t throw ‘shade’ I did learn a great deal including the fact that although she and John both live in Baltimore the actually met here some 60 years ago in front of Provincetown Town Hall. She miss remembered that the benches there are locally known as the ‘meet’ rack NOT by their real title, the ‘meat rack!
So we got to talk about Mr Waters of course, her own experiences acting in two Tennesse Plays, her rather fabulous music album, and gaining queer icon status for playing Aunt Helen in the whole Eating OUT queer film franchise AND how John wants to make one more film.
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival announces its Annual Performance Gala
on June 1 at the Gifford House in Provincetown.
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