Your cart is currently empty!
Tag: Theatre World
Nun Greater
Theatrical outing last night—Saw The Divine Sister, set in a convent school, written by and starring Charles Busch, who’s got the Midas touch for creating campy spoofs loaded with old-movie references. The play is definitely amusing, but honestly I like my nuns a little more raw. One my earliest drag influences was Hapi Phace, and…
Gee Whiz, This Former Porn Palace Looks Familiar
As long as I’ve been writing about old Times Square lately… This past weekend I caught The Ultimate Drag Off, a weekly pageant fabulously hosted by my pal Sweetie at the Times Square Arts Center. Hoo-boy, if those Arts Center walls could talk! The space used to be the porn palace Show World. And I…
Transformer Gal
It was so worth it to venture into the cold last night to catch One Man Show, in which “female female impersonator” World Famous *BOB* shares her colorful life story. (More info at her website.) I saw the show in its infancy, and since then it has been molded into a really great performance piece…
And the Nominees Are… Vaginal…
GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has just announced the nominees for its annual media awards ceremony on March 19th. Among those vying for the Off-Off Broadway award is my longtime pal Vaginal Davis for her conceptual talk show, Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm, presented at PS 122.
Mama Says Goodbye
She was a lioness! Ellen Stewart, founder of NYC’s legendary La MaMa Theater (in 1962) and champion of the offbeat and avant-garde, has died at age 91.
Fishy Taylor Mac Serves Face!
Who’s the chick on the cover of the new issue of Next, the NYC gay nightlife magazine? OMG! It’s postmodern drag queen Taylor Mac, who normally serves surrealism.