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Songs, Santa, Smut: Drag Icon Jackie Beat’s Holiday Show is Set to Sleigh
Hey, NYC! Good news for those who bristle upon hearing “Happy Holidays!” and other equally empty seasonal platitudes: Jacie Beat (the reigning queen of...
HOT Festival is Here & Queer, at Dixon Place Through July 25
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Born lo these many years ago as a performance-space-cum-salon in the real life living room of fabulously supportive founder Ellie...
Chatting with the Chita Rivera Awards Nominees: Gotta Dance!
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I saw the late legend Chita Rivera in Broadway shows and cabaret concerts many times, and every time, it was...
Trans Trio’s Ship-Shape Queering of Maritime Music is Seaport Concert’s Free Booty
Queer History: Chanteys and Sailors
Sunday, July 26, 2:30pm
At the South Street Seaport Museum (213 Water St, NYC)
Get free tickets here
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | It’s...
As The Hedwig Movie Hits 25, John Cameron Mitchell Tells All
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Based on the stage musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the famous...
Drag Brunch Boasts Murray Hill-Approved Carbs, Comedy, & Kings
Murray Hill Presents:
International House of Drag Kings (a brunch spectacular)
Debut Performance: 1pm, Sunday, April 19
At The Cutting Room (44 East 32nd St. NYC)
$25 General...
Safety Dance: Secrets Surface, Forcing the ‘Our House’ Family to Face Facts
TOSOS (“The Other Side of Silence”)
Presents the World Premiere of
Barry Boehm’s "Our House"
Directed by Mark Finley
Starring Christopher Borg, Tim Burke, CJ DiOrio, Jalen Ford,...
Poems, Paintings, Prohibition: ‘The Gay Harlem Renaissance’ on View Through March 8
Note: The following, having originally published here, is reprinted with the author’s permission.
BY TRAV S.D. | Some years we manage to lean into Black...
Subversive and Charming Trans Performer Daphne Always is ‘Trying to Ride the Mechanical Bull...
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | One of the NYC performance scene’s most original inhabitants, Daphne Always—by her own definition—”blends music, standup, burlesque and drag” for...
Unitard at 25 is a Silver Lining for Troubled Times
Uni-Versary: 25 Years of Unitard
Written/Performed by Mike Albo, Nora Burns, David Ilku
Directed by Adam Pivirotto
Thurs., April 30, 9:30pm at Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette St.)
Tickets...
