Tag: The Queer Review

Exclusive Interview: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke on Honey Don’t! – “we wanted to fill the movie with as much queerness as possible”

Following last year's lesbian crime caper road movie starring Margaret Qualley, Drive-Away Dolls, Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s latest collaboration, Honey Don't—which also stars Qualley—queers the film noir by subverting the genre's gender norms in a delectably dark comedy. Stylishly shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog), with enticing characters brilliantly... Continue Reading →

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: The City for Incurable Women (Pleasance Courtyard) ★★

In the Paris of the 1880s, Dr Jean Martin Charcot is studying hysteria at the Salpêtrière Hospital. Despite being a condition that affects all genders, Charcot and his contempories focus on the female patients, attempting to prove their theories about the "four stages of madness", exhibiting the women and having them "perform" for the public.... Continue Reading →

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Theatre Review: Count Dykula (Pleasance Dome) ★★★ / Lesbian Space Crime (Pleasance Dome) ★★★★

This comedic double bill from Airlock Theatre provides a one-two punch of queer musical theatre at its very campest. Eleanor Colville and Rosanna Suppa in Lesbian Space Crime. Photo credit: Alex Brenner Written and performed by Eleanor Colville, Rosanna Suppa and Robbie Taylor Hunt, Count Dykula and Lesbian Space Crime are both camp musical romps,... Continue Reading →

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Jordan Tannahill’s majestic play Prince Faggot returns to New York this fall

Following its sold-out, three-times-extended Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons' intimate Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Jordan Tannahill's majestic play Prince Faggot will return to New York this fall. The world premiere production—presented by bb² (Jeremy O. Harris and Josh Godfrey), Seaview, LD Entertainment, Playwrights Horizons, and Soho Rep—will transfer to Studio Seaview (305 W 43rd Street), Seaview’s new Off-Broadway home, from September 11th... Continue Reading →

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Theatre Review: Pirates! The Penzance Musical (Todd Haimes Theatre, Broadway) ★★★★

Before the curtain rises on Roundabout Theatre Company's spirited reimagining of The Pirates of Penzance, there is an engagingly meta introduction by the operetta's composer Arthur Sullivan (Preston Truman Boyd) and librettist W. S. Gilbert (David Hyde Pierce). Their charmingly affable preamble is largely based on historical fact about the numerous pirated stagings of their... Continue Reading →

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Royally f***ed – Theatre Review: Prince F*ggot (Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway) ★★★★★

In "an act of queer prognostication", playwright Jordan Tannahill's majestic new work Prince Faggot conjures a near future (2030s-40s) where a member of the British Royal Family—Prince George—not only publicly comes out, but gets married to a man. It is a premise inspired by the viral "gay icon" photograph of a four-year-old George back in... Continue Reading →

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Hacks wins Best LGBTQ Show & Best Comedy in Dorian TV Awards – Jean Smart named TV Icon – full winners list

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics—the second largest entertainment journalists' group in the world, with a membership of more than 560 critics, journalists and media icons—has just announced the winners of its annual Dorian TV Awards. GALECA’s voters, again honoring TV and streaming content both mainstream and queer-focused, awarded HBO Max’s new, genre-expanding hit... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Trailblazing trans athletes Clayton Jay Reeves & Jenson Little compete on American Ninja Warrior season 17

Now in its 17th season, NBC's American Ninja Warrior brings together the country’s most elite athletes to conquer the world’s most challenging obstacle courses. Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila are back, along with co-host Zuri Hall, to call the action as the ninjas take on the intense competition. The athletes head to Las Vegas for... Continue Reading →

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