Conceived, directed, choreographed by, and starring So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 runner-up Jakob Karr, Ain’t Done Bad engagingly tells the story of a young gay man growing up in the American South, The Son (Karr), as he navigates coming out and paternal rejection, self-discovery and acceptance, finding strength and joy in community,... Continue Reading →
As Sydney emerges from a surprisingly chilly Australian winter, the 11th Annual Queer Screen Film Festival is here to kickstart spring with its lineup of 35 feature films from across the globe. From August 28th to September 1st, the 2024 edition of Queer Screen will celebrate LGBTQIA+ stories on screen in Sydney, before going on-demand... Continue Reading →
The skill required to craft and perform truly great comedy is often underrated, so its refreshing to see the slew of much-deserved plaudits for Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! that currently adorn the marquee of Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. Included among the attention-grabbing endorsements is the show's own mock-boastful tagline—which channels the titular character's tendency for self-aggrandizement—"The... Continue Reading →
Best known for his eponymous fashion label, designer Ashish Gupta has created a new limited-edition photographic book for House of Voltaire, Looking for now, the latest in their exclusive collaborations. Looking for now by Ashish. Courtesy of House of Voltaire. Featuring 64 original photographs printed in full colour, Looking for now is an intimate and... Continue Reading →
British performer, writer, and director Tim McArthur got his professional start on stage as a young high-kicking dancer in UK pantomimes, going on to make memorable turns in showstopping dame roles. He's starred in productions of Assassins and Into The Woods by his musical theatre hero Stephen Sondheim, the musical parody Blair on Broadway, The... Continue Reading →
Writer-director-producer-co-editor Levan Akin's alluring fourth feature, Crossing, world premiered at the 2024 Berlinale where it won the Teddy jury prize, honouring the festival's best queer film, before going on to pick up more awards at Guadalajara, Sunny Bunny, and Sofia Pride. Following his 2019 gay coming-of-age drama And Then We Danced, and his recent directing... Continue Reading →
"Russell T Davies made Doctor Who Gay", read headlines in the mid-2000s. With every passing reference to queer folks, or with the tremendous pearl-clutching when Captain Jack Harkness arrived in the TARDIS, there was much outrage or elation at the ‘New Who’ being a little bit gayer…depending on where you fell on the tabloid outrage... Continue Reading →
Let’s face it, practically every queer person in show biz either has a Faye Dunaway story or wishes they had one. Gay gossip columnist Billy Masters even has an infamous feature called “Fayewatch” in which he more often than not details sightings of her erratic behavior. Instead of honoring the career of a true Hollywood... Continue Reading →
In their new book, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema, critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay examine how trans themes and trans people have evolved on screen over the past 60-plus years. In an upcoming screening series running at New York's Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)... Continue Reading →
Cat-egory is: the Mother of Reinvention Five years after the critically mauled movie adaptation of Cats, that not even Taylor Swift could save, New York's Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) ends its inaugural season on a major high with an inspired, exhilarating reinterpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical theatre classic as the worlds... Continue Reading →
