It was announced today that Tony Goldwyn will join the company of Matthew Lopez’s Best Play Olivier Award-winning The Inheritance for a four month limited engagement beginning performances Sunday January 5th 2020. Goldwyn will take over the role of Henry Wilcox from John Benjamin Hickey during Hickey’s scheduled leave of absence to direct the Broadway-bound production of Plaza Suite. Tony Goldwyn... Continue Reading →
Laurie Lynd’s feature length documentary Killing Patient Zero is a compelling, detailed exploration of how a French Canadian flight attendant, Gaëtan Dugas, came to be branded by the media as ‘Patient Zero’ and was widely blamed for the initial spread of AIDS among gay men in the USA. Based on Richard A. McKay's book Patient... Continue Reading →
Arthur "Artie" J. Bressan Jr.'s Buddies, written, shot and released in 1985, was the first narrative feature film to deal with AIDS. It follows a volunteer 'buddy' David (David Schachter) as he begins to visit a man with AIDS, Robert (Geoff Edholm), in his hospital room and the impact that they have on one another's... Continue Reading →
Matthew Lopez’s Best Play Olivier award-winning The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, has arrived on Broadway following last year’s highly acclaimed production at London’s Young Vic and its West End transfer, with many of the original cast. Inspired by E. M. Forster’s novel Howard End, the epic two-part play examines multigenerational gay life in New... Continue Reading →
There have been far too few narrative feature films over the years which examine the impact of AIDS, despite its decimation of a generation of gay men. Jonathan Demme’s 1993 Oscar-winning Philadelphia is probably the most mainstream, while that same year Derek Jarman gave us his achingly moving Blue. The eighty-minute avant-garde audio experience, with... Continue Reading →
Voter suppression. Emergency acts to achieve the government's agenda, disdain for the courts and attacks on the press. A group of progressive friends become increasingly anxious and despairing, unsure how to resist in the face of the swift rise to power of a dangerous right-wing demagogue stoking devision. Sound familiar? In 1985, Tony Kusher was... Continue Reading →
Queen and Slim’s initially unnamed two lead characters, brilliantly played by Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith are referred to at one point in the film as "the black Bonnie and Clyde" which if you're looking for a succinct, over-simplified synopsis gives you a good idea of what to expect without spoilers. There's also more than a... Continue Reading →
This weekend in New York, MIX NYC presents a weekend of Queer Experimental Film Programming at Anthology Film Archives over two evenings. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23rd: Program One: 7:15-8:30pm “Within There Runs Blood” presented by Eve Oishi and Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz This program represents the vision of two curators whose careers span twenty-five years, beginning with a... Continue Reading →
Netflix’s AJ And The Queen, launching January 10th 2020, is created by Sex and the City’s Michael Patrick King and RuPaul Charles. The show features performances by RuPaul in each episode. It’s billed as “an equally heartfelt and gritty comedy about finding family in the unlikeliest of people when they’re needed most”. Netflix’s AJ And... Continue Reading →
