Actor and writer Daniel K. Isaac is known for giving smart, nuanced, and playful performances and has a quietly commanding presence on stage and screen that draws the viewer in. Let's face it, those dreamboat good looks and that killer smile don't hurt either. Alongside creating his own work, such as his playwriting debut Once... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Kim David Smith on A Wery Weimar Christmas – “it’s all about being too poor for presents, too atheist for Jesus & too naughty for Santa”
Award-winning cabaret star and actor Kim David Smith returns to New York's Club Cumming on Sunday, December 14th for his fabulously queer annual holiday celebration, A Wery Weimar Christmas, courting festive cheer amid the glitter, doom, and decadence of 1920s Berlin. Featuring the original holiday tunes "A Wery Merry Weimar Christmas," and "Don't Let Krampus... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Jack Ferver on their latest dance-theatre work My Town – “this piece has a lot of mystery even to me”
Writer, choreographer, and performer Jack Ferver's genre-defying performances interrogate and indict psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of gender, sexuality, and power struggles. Weaponizing spectacle and stark naturalism, character and self, humour and horror, their performance practice is rooted in the shattering effects of trauma, and the numerous selves that can arise from... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Charles Moriarty on his latest photography book BROCK – “it’s about chasing your dreams & finding your space in the world”
Featuring more than 110 stunning images taken over four years, photographer Charles Moriarty's latest book, the limited-edition BROCK, is an intimate portrait of actor and bodybuilder, Brock Yurich, as he chases his dreams over several years. The most recent photographs, shot earlier this year, follow Brock home to Los Angeles and onto the set of... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar’s Day – “it’s a love story about a friendship”
With a career spanning more than three decades, Ira Sachs is one of the most acclaimed American independent filmmakers of his generation with work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney. Among many accolades, his brooding queer feature, Keep The Lights On, won the Teddy Award at the 2012... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Sal Salandra wants his thread paintings to celebrate the joy of gay sex & encourage self-acceptance
80-year-old self-taught erotic artist Sal Salandra's vibrant needlepoint "thread paintings" pulsate with a playful carnal energy that unapologetically celebrates the bliss of gay sex in all its variety. Salandra's use of a medium that is typically associated with more neutral, traditionally domestic motifs to conjure kinetic scenes of fisting, orgies, and BDSM gives the work... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Prince Faggot star Mihir Kumar on Off-Broadway’s most talked about play of the year – “I’ve never felt such a strong personal attachment to something I was in”
Mihir Kumar is currently starring in one of New York's most talked about plays of the year—Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury—in an extended run at Studio Seaview through December 13th, 2025, following a sell-out world premiere stint at Playwrights Horizons this summer. The play, which marks Kumar's stunning Off-Broadway debut, sees... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Bryson Battle, B Noel Thomas & J. Harrison Ghee on Off-Broadway’s exhilarating new musical Saturday Church – “it’s today’s queer liberation story”
Three decades ago, Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking Rent was birthed Off-Broadway in Manhattan's East Village at the storied New York Theatre Workshop. Now an equally timely, poignant, and empowering new musical is setting that venue ablaze each night with defiant and uplifting queer joy. Boasting fierce creative credentials, Saturday Church has a book and additional lyrics... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Plainclothes filmmaker Carmen Emmi – “cruising exists in the cracks of society”
Carmen Emmi's Sundance Award-winning debut feature Plainclothes, starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey, is now playing in New York and Los Angeles and expands to more cities over the coming weeks. Set in upstate New York in 1997, Blyth plays a young undercover cop, Lucas, who is assigned to patrol a shopping mall restroom to... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Plainclothes stars Tom Blyth & Russell Tovey “we’re definitely both unserious people, but serious about the work”
When writer-director Carmen Emmi's visually striking and emotionally resonant feature debut, Plainclothes, world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the film garnered a raft of enthusiastic reviews and won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for its acting ensemble. Leading that award-winning cast is Tom Blyth (The Gilded Age) who plays a young... Continue Reading →
