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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews STUDIO ONE FOREVER the story of the infamous LA gay club with a racist/sexist door policy
Studio One Forever is a documentary about the infamous Studio One nightclub in West Hollywood, known for its racist and sexist door policies as much as anything else. Launched in 1974, the club ran for 19 years until 1993. Why Studio One decided to have racist and sexist door policies is not made…
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A SORDID Celebration of LIVES : with our favorite memories and stories
It has been almost 30 years since Del Shores write a wee stage play called Sordid Lives which not only won awards but was adapted into a movie in 2000. It was the story of an (eccentric) Texas family coming together in the aftermath of the matriarch’s death. It received mixed reviews from the…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe’ that opened OUTFEST with such a bang
El Paso, Texas, summer 1987. The long hot summer is endless for Mexican-American Aristotle (an excellent Max Pelayo), a handsome but awkward fifteen-year-old loner with no real interests. He keeps himself to himself and feels very different from his fellow classmates, not having any interest in the things they are inspired by. Homelife…
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MACBETH ‘blood must have blood’ performed free on Boston Common
Any actor or theatre fan will tell you that if you are physically inside a theatre you should never say the name of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy because it is cursed. Back in 1948 British actor Diana Wynyard fell off the stage in Stratford’s production of “The Scottish Play’” during the sleepwalking scene as…
