EDWARD II

posted on May 14th, 2010 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley


Who would have thought that a play written well over four hundred years ago by a contemporary of William Shakespeare would be in-your-face gay enough to make it an appropriate choice for an LGBT theater season?
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posted in Drama, Orange County, WOW!

BRIGADOON

posted on May 13th, 2010 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley


Before My Fair Lady, before Gigi and Paint Your Wagon and Camelot, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe had their first big Broadway hit in 1947 with Brigadoon. Thrice revived since then on the Great White Way, Brigadoon has gone on to become a regional theater favorite, and though it will never eclipse Lerner & Loewe’s masterpiece (you know which one that is), it does have its own old-fashioned charms as well as songs like “Almost Like Being in Love” that have gone on to become standards.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

posted on May 12th, 2010 at 1:42 AM by Steven Stanley


With some rip-roaring performances and a superb production design, A Noise Within’s revival of John Millington Synge’s once scandalous 1907 comedy The Playboy Of The Western World would be all-around wonderful if most of its cast weren’t speaking in a Western Irish accent so thick that it can get downright incomprehensible.  Fortunately, the zest with which the performers attack their roles, some terrific physical comedy, and a storyline which (thank goodness) gets easier to follow as Act One turns to Act Two and Act Three make for an entertaining evening of theater directed by Geoff Elliott.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, WOW!

BECOMING BUTCH

posted on May 11th, 2010 at 1:37 AM by Steven Stanley


Some people dream of becoming rich, others of becoming famous, but as a child growing up in Queens, New York, young Vincent James Arcuri dreamed of becoming butch, or so we learn in Becoming Butch, Arcuri’s delightful, captivating, and ultimately inspiring one-man performance, continuing its midweek run at the Celebration Theatre over the next two Tuesdays.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Solo Performance, WOW!

JANET KRUPIN

posted on May 10th, 2010 at 12:12 AM by Steven Stanley

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posted in Interview

BEN GREEN

posted on May 10th, 2010 at 12:00 AM by Steven Stanley

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posted in Interview

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAY

posted on May 9th, 2010 at 1:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Here’s a question for all you history buffs out there. What two 20th Century inventions revolutionized gay men’s search for quick, anonymous sex with other men?
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, WOW!

MOSCOW

posted on May 8th, 2010 at 1:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Three gay men find themselves trapped in an empty theater that may be heaven, hell, or somewhere in-between (with only Chekhov’s The Three Sisters as their companion) in Nick Salamone and Maury R. McIntyre’s engaging, touching chamber musical Moscow, now playing at San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre. 
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

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