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Working Off-Script: Transgender Awareness in Iranian Black Box Theatres: An Interview with Sāmān Arasṭoo

Posted by Farinaz Kavianifar | 14th Apr 2019 | Interview, Iran, LGBTQ Theatre, Theatre and Gender

February 15, 2019, Café Markov, Tehran, Iran Sāmān Arasṭoo is an Iranian actor and theatre...

Block Party and “Rotterdam” at the Kirk Douglas

Posted by Christine Deitner | 5th Apr 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

The Center Theatre Group’s second Block Party show at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Century City is...

Popular Culture And Political Theatre In PETA’s “Charot!, The Musical”

Posted by Maria Jovita Zárate | 3rd Apr 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, Philippines, Review, Theatre and Politics

“CHAROT” is gay slang, one of the many fluid terms generated by popular lingo, often used as an...

Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors”: Long Live The Queen

Posted by Abigail Weil | 29th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Is Sasha Velour a drag queen? It’s debatable. She’s certainly a drag royalty, having won the ninth...

“La Reprise”: Startling Theatre And A Call To The Dead To Speak

Posted by Julian Meyrick | 29th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, LGBTQ Theatre, Review, Switzerland

Review: La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre, Adelaide Festival By chance, I happened to overhear a...

“Circa” at The Old Red Lion Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom

There is a classic conflict in many gay plays: between characters who identify as gay (in the...

Who’s His Daddy?: Jeremy Harris’ “Daddy” at Signature Theatre Center

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...

“KING” – An Interview With Shaun Parker

Posted by Judith Greenaway | 26th Feb 2019 | Australia, Interview, LGBTQ Theatre, Transcultural Collaborations

For Mardi Gras 2019, Shaun Parker & Company will present the world premiere of KING, an...

What Is Queer About Queer Performance Now?

Posted by Elke Huybrechts | 17th Feb 2019 | Belgium, Essay, LGBTQ Theatre

Between identity and identitylessness In this article, Elke Huybrechts regards what happened on...

Vikram Phukan: Mapping Resilience And Vulnerability

Posted by Zahra Amiruddin | 12th Feb 2019 | India, LGBTQ Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics

In the midst of external turmoil, how does one battle with one’s inner demons? In a world where...

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Choir Boy,” Fearless and Faithful, Makes Radiant Broadway Debut

Posted by Michael Appler | 4th Feb 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

“Choir Boy” is itself a spiritual whose song, sung triumphantly by the bountiful talent of its leading star, Jeremy Pope, rises from its stage with the same faith and fearlessness of a prayer sung only for the stars.

Kevin Elyot’s “Coming Clean” At The Trafalgar Studios

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Jan 2019 | LGBTQ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom

Long before Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping And Fucking, or Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, Kevin...

Global Queer Plays: A Q & A With Jeremy Tiang And Danish Sheikh

Posted by Oberon Books | 24th Dec 2018 | Interview, LGBTQ Theatre, London, United Kingdom

Global Queer Plays, published December 10, is a unique anthology bringing together stories of...

Review: “Man In The Ring” By Michael Cristofer

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 7th Dec 2018 | Boston, LGBTQ Theatre, Review, United States of America

Michael Cristofer’s “Man in the Ring” is a memory play that hits on an emotional level in a way that is hard to shake.

Amazing Grace: The Barrow Group Presents “The Tricky Part”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Dec 2018 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents told us was good is bad. Sun. Milk. Red meat....

“Fun Home”: An Extraordinary Musical

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 19th Nov 2018 | Boston, LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

Fun Home, the multi-Tony award winning musical is making its Boston début at SpeakEasy and a fine...

“Daniel’s Husband” At Westside Theatre

Posted by Jack Wernick | 10th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

A poignant, topical chamber piece for five characters, Daniel’s Husband commences with two gay...

“Sound Of The Beast” Slams Brutality, Inequality, And Racism

Posted by Willow White | 8th Nov 2018 | Canada, Immersive Theatre, LGBTQ Theatre, Review

Willow White reviews Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s one-woman show Sound Of The Beast, produced by...

At LCT, “Plot Points In Our Sexual Development” Traces the Edges of Queer Intimacy

Posted by Michael Appler | 8th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Queer spaces, Miranda Rose Hall suggests, are uniquely suited to plot the points of sexual development, to explore the dynamic, malleable nature of identity. Queer sex not as negotiation or imitation, but as creation and innovation.

“Torch Song” Breathes New Life, Radiantly Led By Michael Urie

Posted by Michael Appler | 8th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

You may find that this glorious Broadway revival, led by Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl in the same theater where it opened over 35 years ago, burns a softer flame — no less bright, for sure, but perhaps a bit more tender, lit for a time when a drag queen poised before a Broadway audience, while no less political, is imaginably less avant-garde.