Subjects For Some Short Stories: Acting Character In Postdramatic Chekhov
Twenty years after the Wooster Group’s seminal Three Sisters-inspired Brace Up!, contemporary New...
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A Mountain of One’s Own: “Taking the High Ground” by Jan Bolwell
Since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to climb Mount Everest in May 1953,...
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Why Do We Hate?: Censoring the Minority 2017
Namsan Arts Center’s 2017 season opened with Censoring the Minority 2017 (written and directed by...
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A Living Mockery: The Ridiculous Theatrical Company At Fifty
In 1967, not one but two productions of Charles Ludlam’s deliciously demented Conquest Of The...
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Family, Latinidad, and Queerness Coalesce In Marga Gomez’s “Latin Standards”
Marga Gomez began her career in San Francisco’s gay comedy clubs in the mid-1980s, including the...
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TotoToo’s production of “Bent” – On Being Gay in Nazi Germany
There are moments in TotoToo’s production of Bent that are as good as anything that this...
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“Of Kith And Kin” at The Bush Theatre
A new baby is like an alien invasion: it blows your mind and it colonizes your world. For any...
Read MoreTranssexual Theatre: Two Brave New Edinburgh Plays Tell of Harrowing Journeys
The struggle for transgender people is a leading theme at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe thanks to two shows from the National Theatre of Scotland, Adam and Eve. The shows begin in different times and places, but both are about...
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Ponyboy Curtis’ “Vs” at Yard Theatre
Ponyboy Curtis are a cult phenomenon. Chris Goode’s queer performance collective has won plaudits...
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Boylesque Redefines Burlesque and Masculinity
Burlesque is an art form that has polarized Western society for centuries. In his 1991 publication...
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“Only Heaven Knows” Brings 1940s Queer Sydney Roaring Back to Life
Only Heaven Knows, a musical about a young Melbourne man who discovers the queer delights of...
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Lucy McCormick’s “Triple Threat” Is The Nativity Reimagined, With LGBT Club Culture, Vibrators, And Lady Gaga
Most of us have begrudgingly sat through a nativity play; feigned interest as a nephew plays...
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Sex, Death, and Gender Fluidity in Wilde’s “Salomé” at Royal Shakespeare Company
Salomé: one of the most dangerously seductive female figures ever, often considered the original...
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Collusion of Cultures in Neil Coppen’s “BuiteLand”
Now and then a stage production is mounted supplying more than entertainment, albeit intellectual...
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“Sensuality of Action”: Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” on Broadway
Indecent is the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, belated making her...
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Queer Chronopolitics: Forests, Freaks and Performativity
The term ‘freak’ thus refers not only to bodies, but also to denormalizing social...
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“Clara” Boasts A Closet Full Of Surprises
How can a play about a serious matter such as a fatal illness turn into a hilarious comedy and a...
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PETA’s “The Care Divas” and The Ethics of Care
First staged in 2010 at the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) Theater Center in...
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Heterosexual Dystopia in “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name”
Bold and provocative, directed by Sarah Vickery.Thomas Ian Doyle’s latest work – The Upstairs...
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Despite Bomb Threats, “Out of The Blue” Plays On (Internationally)
Out of the Blue, currently playing at Moscow’s Satirikon Theater, is restricted to ages 21...
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