Tag: queer theatre

All About My Mother – Theatre Review: The Seven Year Disappear (Pershing Square Signature Center, New York) ★★★1/2

Cynthia Nixon is magnificent in The New Group's Off-Broadway world premiere production of Jordan Seavey's intriguingly meta play The Seven Year Disappear running at The Pershing Square Signature Center through March 31st. Outside the Signature's Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, there is an overview of the career of fictional mononymous performance artist Miriam (Nixon). The... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: National Black Theatre’s artistic director Jonathan McCrory “we all have the ability to cultivate a renaissance for our own community”

For over a decade, Harlem-based artist Jonathan McCrory has served as Executive Artistic Director of the groundbreaking National Black Theatre (NBT), though he prefers the term "creative doula". The two-time Obie-winner describes his role as enabling "unseen ideas to be birthed between the parents, which are the playwright and the director, or sometimes the playwright... Continue Reading →

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Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics launches Dorian Theater Awards to honor Broadway & Off-Broadway

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced this week that it is expanding its mission to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, across a variety of inaugural categories, beginning with the 2022-2023 theater season. Following GALECA’s established Dorian film and TV honors, its Dorian Theater Awards will celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+ themed productions. While... Continue Reading →

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Theatre Review: The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway) ★★★★

Playwright Thomas Bradshaw retains the spirit of one of Chekhov's most celebrated works while bringing it sharply into present day America with his adaptation, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, currently receiving its world premiere Off-Broadway produced by The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. As the title suggests, the action has been transposed from rural Russia... Continue Reading →

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Theatre Review: Big Screen, Small Queen (Everything I Didn’t Learn at Film School) (KXT Kings Cross, Sydney) ★★★★

Sydney’s glamour bug, Etcetera Etcetera, is expanding her field of drag with a new one-woman show that gets down to the humanity behind the mask in Big Screen, Small Queen (Everything I Didn’t Learn at Film School), presented during Sydney WorldPride. The night starts like an old school Sydney drag show, lip-syncing to classic film... Continue Reading →

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