Director Craig Baldwin's thrilling new adaptation of William Shakespeare's Richard II for Red Bull Theater boldly transposes the play's setting from late 14th-century England to a vibrantly realized, greed-is-good 1980s Manhattan. It is a choice that not only allows for some stunning costumes by Rodrigo Muñoz, but also conjures a period of national disunity, with... 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 →
Film Review: Peter Hujar’s Day ★★★★
On December 19th, 1974 writer Linda Rosenkrantz invited her close friend, photographer Peter Hujar, to her New York apartment on the Upper East Side to describe in detail how he had spent the entirety of the previous day. The tape-recorded conversation was part of a planned larger project by Rosenkrantz, intended to gather the recollections... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Photo Story: A Study in Male Beauty by Steven Menendez
Steven Menendez shares a new study in male beauty portfolio with The Queer Review shot in October, 2025 in New York City. Male Beauty I featuring Randall Kohn. Photo credit: Steven Menendez. Steven Menendez: I created this series of images because I wanted to show the soft and tender side of male beauty. I was... 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 →
Film Review: Tinsman Road ★★★★
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound at all? Or does it echo out as an ethereal song, haunting those who may have been hit by its ripples? The answer is unknown, the sound is unknown, and the only certainty left is... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Messy White Gays (The Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway) ★★★★
When Drew Droege, most widely known for his inspired viral Chloë Sevigny parody videos, spoke with The Queer Review in March 2020 about his one-man show Happy Birthday Doug, he mused, “I think we’re afraid as queer people to write flawed gay characters”. With his latest Off-Broadway comedy, Messy White Gays, the writer-star shows no... 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 →
Drag icon BenDeLaCreme to host queen of burlesque Dita Von Teese’s UK & Europe Nocturnelle 2026 tour
Drag icon BenDeLaCreme will host the queen of burlesque Dita Von Teese’s Nocturnelle 2026 UK and European tour. From LA’s Dolby Theater to New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall, BenDeLaCreme has starred in, directed, written, and produced some of the most successful original drag theatre work of all time. Ahead of Nocturnelle, DeLa will be touring this fall... Continue Reading →
