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Balletboyz will be Back in Town
The celebrated Brit all-male contemporary dance company BalletBoyz are heading back here to the US and Canada next spring touring with their new production ‘Life’ which has been garnering high praise from all the London critics. When reviewing the two part program, one wrote “it is rare to find extremes of grace and eccentricity in…
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And the Tony goes to ????
Looks like Broadway is going to be packed with iconic Divas next year, as following hot on the news that Bette Midler will be starring in Hello Dolly, comes the announcement that the Chicago Goodman Theatre’s summer sold-out hit War Paint will be reopening in NY next April. The musical is based on the true…
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queerguru reviews Denial
Denial is based on a very real story that started in 1996 when the right-wing British author and historian David Irving (Timothy Spall) filed a libel suit against a Jewish-American history professor Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and her British publisher Penguin Books for publishing a British edition of Lipstadt’s book ‘Denying the Holocaust’. In her book…
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Filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones talks about FIRE SONG
It is an achingly beautiful story compassionately told and one that is tinged with more than it’s share of sadness, as openly gay Garnet Jones shows how tough it is for LGBT people to be themselves in this tight small communities. After picking up Awards on the Film Festival circuit, the movie is being released by Wolfe…
