Certified drag icons Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme are back on tour in the US and Canada with their eighth annual The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show bringing even more bite, irrelevance, and fiercely defiant tidings of comfort and joy than ever. Not to forget plenty of dick jokes. It's that kind of holiday show. In... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
