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 →
Theatre Review: Overflow (Eternity Playhouse, Sydney) ★★★★★
The bottom line is, yes, Overflow is as good as everyone says it is, go see it! The return season of Overflow, a wickedly funny and fiery.one-person play that beautifully illustrates the life of a young trans woman, lives up to all of the acclaim it has received since its Australian debut in 2022. Cornered... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Oscar-nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Ava DuVernay’s Origin “we have made a dangerous film & I delight in that danger”
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and BET nominations, among many other accolades, for her performance as Oracene Price, the mother and tennis coach of Venus and Serena Williams, in Reinaldo Marcus Green's 2021 feature King Richard. More recently, her work was recognized with a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Sort Of creator & star Bilal Baig on the third & final season of the Peabody Award-winning comedy series
Today sees the return of one the freshest, funniest, and most unassumingly revolutionary series on television, Sort Of, for its third and final season. The GLAAD Award-nominated, Canadian Screen and Peabody-winning comedy is created by its showrunners and executive producers, Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo. Baig also stars in the Toronto-set series as the endearing... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ highlights at 40th Sundance Film Festival
Thursday, January 18th marks the opening of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival which runs in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah until January 28th, as well as online US-wide for the last four days of the festival. The 40th annual edition will showcase 91 features, 53 shorts, and eight episodics, with 32... Continue Reading →
TV Review: Doctor Who – The Church on Ruby Road ★★★★
It's been six years since there was a Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon a Time, which saw the Twelfth Doctor's final yuletide adventures. Since then, we've had Thirteen causing ripples by being the first female incarnation of the Timelord and in November the show returned to its "New Who" roots with Russell T Davies... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: playwright Alana Valentine on Sydney’s forgotten Black queer cabaret star Nellie Small
A forgotten corner of Sydney's entertainment history is being celebrated at this year's Sydney Festival, as the late Black queer cabaret sensation Nellie Small is brought back to the stage though Send For Nellie. The performer began her career in the 1920s before developing her vaudeville act as a drag king. She became so adored,... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Michael Griffiths on his Pet Shop Boys-themed cabaret show It’s A Sin – Songs of Love & Shame
The Pet Shop Boys have a key place in pop music through the 80s, 90s, and 00s. With hits like "Go West", "Left to My Own Devices", Rent", and "Absolutely Fabulous" becoming queer anthems, their synth-pop lit up gay club dancefloors and inspired generations of LGBTQ+ artists (with Russell T Davies' hit TV series taking... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Guillermo Díaz & Todd Verow in conversation about their queer horror thriller You Can’t Stay Here
In an exclusive conversation for The Queer Review, prolific New Queer Cinema provocateur Todd Verow and veteran actor Guillermo Díaz discuss their collaboration on the atmospheric and captivating indie horror thriller You Can't Stay Here, which opens in New York at the IFC Center on Friday, January 5th, followed by its New Orleans release at... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Daniel Levy, Ruth Negga & Himesh Patel on playing “found family” in Netflix’s Good Grief
As we recover from the excess and emotions of another holiday season and enter the first week of the new year, watching a movie entitled Good Grief—about a man who is dealing with the unexpected death of his husband—might not seem like the obvious uplifting choice to add to your Netflix queue. But we recommend... Continue Reading →
