Month: June 2024

Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman on their HBO documentary Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music

In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →

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Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: Machine Dazzle on his creations for Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music “the costumes are living sculptures”

In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →

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Emmys FYC 2024 Exclusive Interview: director Anthony Caronna & executive producer Howard Gertler on their HBO docu-series Last Call – When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York 

In the early 1990s, with homophobia and hate crimes on the rise as the HIV/AIDS crisis worsened in the United States, a serial killer preyed upon gay men in New York City, infiltrating queer nightlife to find his victims. A gripping, investigative crime story, Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York also dives deeply... Continue Reading →

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Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: Taylor Mac on his 24-Decade History of Popular Music “so much of queer culture has been erased – I wanted to make something so big it couldn’t be ignored”

In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: I’m Your Venus filmmaker Kimberly Reed “Venus Xtravaganza’s biological family & her ballroom family have reconciled in a way that gives me a lot of hope”

Venus Xtravaganza, a rising New York ballroom legend was killed aged 23 in December 1988, but she went on to become a global trans icon with her inedible appearance in Jennie Livingston's groundbreaking 1991 film Paris Is Burning. Director Kimberly Reed’s feature documentary I’m Your Venus, which world premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, picks... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Queen Priyanka on her We’re Here experience “my mantra is to entertain people, create escape & be there for my community”

Following the release of the undeniably catchy "No New Friends" and current empowering dance single "Shut It Down", Canada's Drag Race season 1 winner, drag icon and pop diva Queen Priyanka, has just announced that her debut album Devastatia will be released on August 23rd and that she will embark on a 23-date North American... Continue Reading →

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