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Trans Joy in The Christine Jorgensen Show

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 25th Oct 2024 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

The Christine Jorgensen Show isn’t perfect, but it’s just so delightfully charming it’s hard...

Drag Queens in Musical Theatre

Posted by Lisa Monde | 8th May 2023 | Essay, Interview, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, United States of America

Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first publication of the play by Jean Poiret La Cage Aux...

“Sex Magick”: This Gender-Bending, Time-Traveling Play Invites You to Detangle Love and Sex

Posted by Aisha Malik | 20th Mar 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl and follows her to India. Boy has a transformative...

Laura Horton’s “Breathless” at the Soho Theatre: Slender but Heartfelt Account of Hoarding

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Feb 2023 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom

The female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is...

Growing Up and Getting Through in Jill Sobule’s “F*ck7thGrade”

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 17th Nov 2022 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

F*ck7thGrade is messy, it’s awkward, it’s unrelentingly earnest, and it’s utterly delightful....

The Normal Heart, National Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Nov 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don’t mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the...

“A Strange Loop” by Michael R. Jackson

Posted by Jack Wernick | 14th Feb 2021 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

It’s rare when a musical wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Most recently it was cultural...

In China’s Voguing Houses, Queer Millennials Strike a New Pose

Posted by Wang Xuandi and Fan Yiying | 1st Feb 2021 | China, LGBTQ+ Theatre, News, Theatre and Dance

Ballroom culture is quietly flourishing in China’s cities, creating a safe space for young LGBT...

“A Black and White Cookie” at TNC

Posted by Jack Wernick | 28th Jan 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Gary Morgenstein’s nostalgic yet au courant play A Black and White Cookie is an invigorating...

“It’s OK to be Naked”: An Interview with Tim Norwood

Posted by Konrad Zielinski | 23rd Oct 2020 | Interview, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Tim Norwood describes himself as an emerging theatre-maker from Sheffield. He’s queer, disabled,...

A Café in Performance: An Example of Queer Theatre in the Balkans

Posted by Borisav Matić | 17th Feb 2020 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, News, Serbia

“The Queer Café: Hear Our Voices from the Balkans, the project I’ve been working on as a dramaturg and translator, with the US playwright, director and activist Joan Lipkin, has been a precious experience. It has also energized the local community that’s gathered around the Pride Info Center in Belgrade, where the show premiered.” – Borisav Matić