Fairytales and Movie Magic

Home » Archives by category » Arts (Page 5)

Fairytales and Movie Magic

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The reverence that many gay men of a certain age have for Lesley Ann Warren’s eternal hold on the role of Cinderella led to collective gasping and pearl clutching upon the announcement that Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical would “updated” by Douglas Carter Beane. Many of the distraught no doubt still imagined [...]

March 26, 20136309No CommentFairytales+and+Movie+Magic2013-03-26+22%3A51%3A57adminRead More

Gifts from Down Under

BY DAVID NOH | Helen Reddy was undoubtedly one of the major voices of the 1970s, with her rapid-succession top-selling hits constantly playing on the radio and seeping under our skin. She’s making a long overdue return to New York at B.B. King on March 23 and 24 and took time off from touring in [...]

March 19, 201361732 CommentsGifts+from+Down+Under2013-03-19+22%3A47%3A21adminRead More

America’s Dancemaker Keeps On Keeping On

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | Paul Taylor’s second spring season at Lincoln Center offers the usual abundance of dances by the 20th century master. Having moved from its former stage, City Center, to the grander Koch Theater, the company looks entirely at home. Taylor is perhaps the last remaining mid-century modern dance master, and he still [...]

March 18, 20136148No Comment2013-03-18+22%3A50%3A20adminRead More

Arab Gangs of London

BY GARY M. KRAMER | “My Brother the Devil” is a stunning film about two Egyptian siblings in London. Devilishly handsome Rashid (James Floyd), who is involved in a drug-dealing gang, tries to keep his devil-may-care younger brother Mo (Fady Elsayed) out of harm’s way. Rashid decides he wants out of the drug gang culture and [...]

March 13, 201360491 CommentArab+Gangs+of+London2013-03-13+17%3A37%3A29adminRead More

Stonewall Stories

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | The Stonewall riots have been the stuff of legend since the aggrieved patrons –– gays, lesbians, transgender, and some in drag –– fought back against cops during a routine raid on a sweltering night in June of 1969. That act of defiance, where LGBT folk charged “out of the closets and [...]

March 13, 20136001No CommentStonewall+Stories2013-03-13+17%3A35%3A16adminRead More

Luminous Out Soprano Returns with Mozart

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | The last time proudly out soprano Christine Brandes spoke to Gay City News was in April 2004. Bay Area critic Jason Victor Serinus profiled the dynamic, bright, quirky, and dark-silver-voiced Brandes as she readied her favorite role — Susanna in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” — for City Opera. Reflecting on this [...]

March 13, 20136040No Comment2013-03-13+17%3A28%3A44adminRead More

A Fine Romance

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The intimacy of the theater at CSC is a surprising and powerful setting for the outsized emotions of Stephen Sondheim’s “Passion,” now getting a glorious staging under the direction of John Doyle. Performed on a largely bare stage, Doyle’s focus is the interaction between the characters and the various forms that love [...]

March 13, 20136036No CommentA+Fine+Romance2013-03-13+17%3A20%3A04adminRead More

When Brutality is an Entitlement

BY GARY M. KRAMER | The prison drama “K-11” gets its name from the LGBT unit of the Los Angeles county jail — “a sanctuary for broken toys” cracks one character. This is where Raymond Saxx, Jr. (Goran Visnjic), a straight man, finds himself incarcerated after being accused of homicide. Raymond is too drugged up to recall [...]

March 13, 20136030No CommentWhen+Brutality+is+an+Entitlement2013-03-13+17%3A08%3A20adminRead More

Sarah Schulman Uncensored

BY DOUG IRELAND | Sarah Schulman’s new book, “Israel/ Palestine and the Queer International,” is a book that some Very Important People don’t want you to read. To their shame, that group ranges from the leadership of New York’s LGBT Community Center, which banned Schulman from reading from her book and answering questions about it, to [...]

March 13, 201360284 CommentsSarah+Schulman+Uncensored2013-03-13+16%3A59%3A00adminRead More

Ed Watts, Soaring

BY DAVID NOH | At an early rehearsal for the new Encores! production of “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane… It’s Superman,” composer Charles Strouse had a huge smile on his face listening to his rarely revived score. Afterwards, he enthused to the leading man, “What a wonderful voice! Where have you been?” That guy would be [...]

March 13, 201360221 CommentEd+Watts%2C+Soaring2013-03-13+16%3A52%3A37adminRead More

Page 5 of 30« First ‹ Previous 3 456 7 Next ›Last »

Minnesota Enacts Marriage Equality

Two Arrests in Second of Recent Madison Square Garden Area Bashings