Before the curtain rises on Roundabout Theatre Company's spirited reimagining of The Pirates of Penzance, there is an engagingly meta introduction by the operetta's composer Arthur Sullivan (Preston Truman Boyd) and librettist W. S. Gilbert (David Hyde Pierce). Their charmingly affable preamble is largely based on historical fact about the numerous pirated stagings of their... Continue Reading →
You better watch out, award-winning comedy icons, writers, actors, and drag queen powerhouses BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon are coming to town with the wildly successful, internationally acclaimed, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show. Directed, produced, and written by BenDeLaCreme, this year’s show will tour major theaters in 30 cities across the United States and Canada... Continue Reading →
Sisters, behold! Fresh from her dazzling run on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10, global drag superstar, actress, comedian, and singer Ginger Minj will take flight this fall with the Hokus Pokus Live! tour, co-starring fellow Drag Race alum Sapphira Cristál (RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 runner-up) and Jujubee (RuPaul's Drag Race season 2, All... Continue Reading →
Where have you seen this one before? A grizzled, graying gay filmmaker fixates on a past relationship which prevents him from moving forward in present day. If Pedro Almodóvar’s wonderful Pain And Glory comes to mind, you have just won the trivia contest, but not so fast, as Before We Forget, co-written and directed by... Continue Reading →
In "an act of queer prognostication", playwright Jordan Tannahill's majestic new work Prince Faggot conjures a near future (2030s-40s) where a member of the British Royal Family—Prince George—not only publicly comes out, but gets married to a man. It is a premise inspired by the viral "gay icon" photograph of a four-year-old George back in... Continue Reading →
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics—the second largest entertainment journalists' group in the world, with a membership of more than 560 critics, journalists and media icons—has just announced the winners of its annual Dorian TV Awards. GALECA’s voters, again honoring TV and streaming content both mainstream and queer-focused, awarded HBO Max’s new, genre-expanding hit... Continue Reading →
Fire Island drag legend Panzi—who led the original 1976 Invasion of the Pines—returned on Friday, July 4th to host the 50th anniversary Invasion. As drag queens from Cherry Grove disembarked, Panzi introduced each one from the harbor stage. Some of the highlights included a synchronized group of M3gans, a trio of Little Edies, and a... Continue Reading →
When a newly single Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) encountered BBC producer Joy, played by British actress Dolly Wells, in front of the United Nations building towards the end of the second season of And Just Like That... sparks flew. Season three of the Sex and the City spin-off, currently debuting Thursdays on Max, has seen Miranda... Continue Reading →
Now in its 17th season, NBC's American Ninja Warrior brings together the country’s most elite athletes to conquer the world’s most challenging obstacle courses. Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila are back, along with co-host Zuri Hall, to call the action as the ninjas take on the intense competition. The athletes head to Las Vegas for... Continue Reading →
schnook: noun - informal - def: a person easily duped, a fool - “Don’t be a schnook! It’s a scam!” I love comedies about schnooks. From the intrepid duo at the heart of American Movie, Beavis And Butt-head, Dumb And Dumber and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, I’ve always had a soft spot in my... Continue Reading →
