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PBS & Paramount + have plans to celebrate PRIDE 2021
We applaud and support everybody who sincerely want to support this PRIDE Month, especially when they are an august body such as PBS. Here then are a few of the programs they will be screening this June Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years has offered audiences their passion…
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Josh O’Connor plays Romeo for real
The word from the UK is that the National Theatre’s very first film is something of a smash hit. In its 5-star review, The Guardian called this Romeo and Juliet ‘an ingenious triumph”. This production of Shakespeare’s classic love story was created solely for the screen and it was shot on a single stage, over…
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Another Hayride with the message “self-love would help overcome AIDS”
Queer filmmaker Matt Wolf was born in 1982 a year after the first cases of AIDS were reported in the US. He may have been too young to remember the pandemic at its height, but his excellent new short documentary captures it so succinctly that it will stir up memories that some of us…
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I Loves You Porgy ….. live on PBS Great Performances on July 17th
We may be spoilt for choices with so much culture now being streamed online right now, but here is one real treat we would not dream of missing. This Friday, July 17, PBS’s Great Performances will present the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 production of George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward’s Porgy and Bess. Directed by…
