Cynthia Erivo – What Makes a Voice Legendary?
by joel martens Best known to U.S. audiences for her performance as Celie in the 2015 Broadway musical revival of The Color Purple, Cynthia Erivo took New York by storm, winning the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical as well as the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Her journey […]
The Imperial Council: 50 Years of Fabulous – Holding Court and Bearing Witness
by tim parks – As one of the oldest LGBT organizations around the globe and certainly the oldest in North America, the International Court System of the United States, Canada and Mexico has a rich and storied history. Founded in San Francisco by renown activist, drag queen and performer José Julio Sarria in 1965—who would […]
Have The Time of Your Life with ‘Mamma Mia!’ at Laguna Playhouse
Due to overwhelming demand, Laguna Playhouse is extending the first show of its 99th season, the perfect romantic comedy to kick off the Summer, ABBA’s intoxicating MAMMA MIA!, music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and some songs with Stig Anderson, book by Catherine Johnson, originally conceived by Judy Craymer with musical direction by Ricky Pope and […]
SHUT UP! IT’S GREYSON CHANCE
PORTRAITS OF A YOUNG MAN ~ by joel martens ~ The world is as different as it can be, but when you get down to it, what makes us all human and connected, really has not. We are emotional beings who love, feel pain, have successes and suffer losses, eventualities that have forever driven writers […]
Spring Awakening: A Season For Discovery
by tom andrew – Palm Springs’ Palm Canyon Theatre has taken on quite an impressive and audacious season this year, not that that’s any surprise based on past and upcoming shows. Rounding out their 2018-19 season they have chosen the teen, angst-ridden musical, Spring Awakening. This will be their seventh large scale musical, including The […]
Get Your Shorts Off! Palm Springs International ShortFest Turns 25
by chris carpenter – Temperatures are heating up in Palm Springs, so shorts will be going on and coming off with abandon this month… short films that is! Approximately 325 of them will be screened during the 25th Anniversary Palm Springs International ShortFest. The largest short film event in North America, ShortFest programmers receive […]
RAGE Reviews: Celebrating Pride at the Movies
by chris carpenter Rocketman–the appropriately flamboyant, occasionally surreal Elton John biopic–may be the gayest movie of the summer (at least from a major studio) but its hardly the only one. As Pride month/season gets underway, there are a number of new and re-released LGBTQ movies definitely worth checking out. But first let’s talk about Rocketman, now […]
Joshua Harmon’s Significant Other: Queer Love is Something to Celebrate
by lisa lipsey – Joshua Harmon, famed for his comedy Bad Jews, wrote Significant Other and watched it transfer to Broadway last year. The central character in his romantic comedy is Jordan Berman, who has been pounding the New York City pavement searching for “Mr. Right.” Jordan has a trio of close-knit girlfriends who help him […]
Murray Bartlett & Tales of The City: Michael Tolliver Lives Again!
~ by joel martens ~ Murray Bartlett went to acting school in Australia and successfully worked there for a number of years, though he felt restless. The industry there is small, so there’s not many opportunities and a lot of actors who want to work. In his 20’s Bartlett, like many of us, was asking […]
Full Release! 2019 Summer Movie Preview
by tim parks – Last year provided moviegoers with some quality LGBTQ representation with films like The Favourite, Boy Erased, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Call Me By Your Name and Love, Simon. There was Bohemian Rhapsody of course, with its knock out performance by Rami Malek, which nabbed him a Best Actor Oscar. Naturally, […]