In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →
Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: Machine Dazzle on his creations for Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music “the costumes are living sculptures”
In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →
Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: Taylor Mac on his 24-Decade History of Popular Music “so much of queer culture has been erased – I wanted to make something so big it couldn’t be ignored”
In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: I’m Your Venus filmmaker Kimberly Reed “Venus Xtravaganza’s biological family & her ballroom family have reconciled in a way that gives me a lot of hope”
Venus Xtravaganza, a rising New York ballroom legend was killed aged 23 in December 1988, but she went on to become a global trans icon with her inedible appearance in Jennie Livingston's groundbreaking 1991 film Paris Is Burning. Director Kimberly Reed’s feature documentary I’m Your Venus, which world premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, picks... Continue Reading →
She’s No Hack – Film Review: Cora Bora ★★★1/2
Megan Stalter has emerged as a wholly unique comic presence with her viral “Hi Gay!” videos and her scene-stealing role as Kayla on Hacks. The latter, in particular, really has showed off her range with that raw, revealing scene in the 3rd season finale. Still, in everything I’ve seen, she’s cultivated a messy yet overly... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ Critics reveal 2024 Dorian Theater Award winners
Illinoise, Merrily We Roll Along, and Oh, Mary! came out on top in GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics' second annual Dorian Theater Awards which were announced this week. Voted for by the group's 39 theater wing members, the awards honor the best of the 2023-24 season's Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Merrily We Roll... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Latrice Royale on her “transformative & healing” experience on HBO’s We’re Here
Drag superstar Latrice Royale—who appeared on the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race as well as the first and fourth seasons of All Stars—speaks exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann about what drag means to her, why she wanted to join the fourth season of HBO's Emmy, Peabody, and GLAAD award-winning unscripted series... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Queen Priyanka on her We’re Here experience “my mantra is to entertain people, create escape & be there for my community”
Following the release of the undeniably catchy "No New Friends" and current empowering dance single "Shut It Down", Canada's Drag Race season 1 winner, drag icon and pop diva Queen Priyanka, has just announced that her debut album Devastatia will be released on August 23rd and that she will embark on a 23-date North American... Continue Reading →
TV Review: Fantasmas ★★★★
In the delectably queer (in every sense of the word) new HBO comedy series Fantasmas, creator-writer-director-star Julio Torres (Los Espooskys, Problemista) plays a thirty-something creative named Julio Torres. He lives in a heightened, only-ever-so-slightly surreal version of New York City with his trusty robot assistant Bibo (voiced by Joe Rumrill), an aspiring actor eyeing human... Continue Reading →
A Strange Loop & White Girl In Danger star James Jackson, Jr. premieres latest solo show “Cabaret…Debut” at NYC’s Pangea June 1st & 2nd
Obie award-winning performer James Jackson, Jr.—whose recent stage credits include Michael R. Jackson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop on Broadway and Off-Broadway's White Girl in Danger—will celebrate the start of Pride Month in style with a two-night stint at East Village mainstay Pangea. Jackson has graced the stages of Radio City Music... Continue Reading →
