2021
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Robert Wilson’s avant-garde TURANDOT for Teatro Real
The New York Times once described the queer avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson as [America]’s – or even the world’s – foremost vanguard ‘theater artist.’ If you are familiar with any of Wilson’s remarkable body of work, you will appreciate that this is a well-deserved accolade. After twenty years of absence, Puccini’s Turandot was…
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Just Dusty : The Real Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield is probably the most iconic and inspirational British female singer EVER. Since her first hit “I Only Want to Be with You” charted in 1963, Dusty amassed twenty top 40 hits in a career that spanned over thirty years. Hits such as “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Stay Awhile,” “Some of Your…
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Alone : Thomas Moore reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
“The door closes. He’s gone. I’m alone.” Moore’s narrator feels he’s hard-wired for abandonment, allergic to reciprocated love, only happy when he’s being rejected. Loneliness is the one constant in his life, the one companion that never leaves. “Loneliness can be the greatest gift”, he says. The fragmented nature of the text mirrors the…
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Queer singer CHAZ CARDIGAN is Not OK
26-year-old Chaz Cardigan is part of a generation of new queer singers/songwriters who are determined to get the rest of us out of our comfort zone. This Kentucky native ‘came out’ at 13 which we guess made him toughen up real quick. He moved to Nashville as soon as he could in order to…
