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Emotions High –– On Stage and Off –– at “Laramie Project Cycle”

Emotions High –– On Stage and Off –– at “Laramie Project Cycle”

BY ANDY HUMM | Ten years — especially the decade that followed the 1998 anti-gay murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard — is an epoch in LGBT history. BAM’s revival of “The Laramie Project” –– an Off-Broadway play less than successful commercially in 2000 that has gone on to be the most performed play of the period, [...]

February 19, 2013No CommentRead More

When Bullies are Attacked

When Bullies are Attacked

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | In recent years, the LGBT community has adopted the issue of anti-gay bullying as a cause célèbre, leveraging tragic, high-profile cases to shine a light on intolerance and advance gay rights. More often than not, the issue is reduced to black and white — bullies are evil, victims are saints. “From White [...]

February 14, 20136 CommentsRead More

Wildely Ahead of Their Times

Wildely Ahead of Their Times

BY DOUG IRELAND | A quarter of a century before Oscar Wilde was sent to Reading Gaol for “the love that dare not speak its name,” the trial of two young, 20-something cross-dressing lads whom the London press dubbed the “Funny He-She Ladies” created a media firestorm. Ernest Boulton, 23, aka Stella, and Frederick Park, 27, [...]

February 13, 20131 CommentRead More

LGBT Center Bars Sarah Schulman Reading

LGBT Center Bars Sarah Schulman Reading

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | A leading queer community author was barred from an appearance at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center apparently because the book she was to discuss deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We requested space for me to do a presentation of my new book ‘Israel/ Palestine and the Queer International,’ which [...]

February 13, 2013125 CommentsRead More

Martha Graham’s Spirit Kindled, Expanded

Martha Graham’s Spirit Kindled, Expanded

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | How does a dance company survive after the death of its founding choreographer? That’s the question companies like Ailey and Limón have wrestled with successfully — by expanding their repertoires with works by new choreographers who reflect consonant aesthetic points of view. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s unprecedented solution was to [...]

February 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Hotcha!: Film Forum Celebrates 27 Delicious Days of Delectable Dirt

Hotcha!: Film Forum Celebrates 27 Delicious Days of Delectable Dirt

BY DAVID NOH | Forget westerns, film noirs and horror, the movie genre of genres as far as I’m concerned is Pre-Code, those films made before the puritanically restrictive Hays Code took control of censorship in 1934. Film Forum is hosting a four-week celebration of films made in 1933, just before that dreary takeover, by [...]

February 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Anger Management

Anger Management

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | Martin Moran’s wonderful new solo piece “All the Rage” is an examination of anger, compassion, and how each of us can become conscious of the common threads between these seemingly disparate emotions. Moran, a writer and Broadway actor, previously examined the challenges of healing from sexual abuse and finding a kind of [...]

February 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Lulu and Pia

Lulu and Pia

BY DAVID NOH | It’s hard to believe that Lulu, who’s enjoyed a steady career that began several years before making her screen debut at 18 in 1967’s “To Sir With Love — for which she sang the hit title song — should only now be making her American club debut. But that she is, at [...]

February 13, 20132 CommentsRead More

Madison Avenue Liberation Front

Madison Avenue Liberation Front

BY STEVE ERICKSON | In the early 1970s, debate raged about whether it sufficed to make films with political subject matter or if a filmmaker, to be truly progressive, also had to use unconventional form to challenge the spectator’s expectations — “making a film politically” it was dubbed. This discussion resonates in Olivier Assayas’ forthcoming “Something [...]

February 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Barry, Brecht, and Bores

Barry, Brecht, and Bores

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | Bertolt Brecht’s first play, “Baal,” can be tough sledding for the unprepared. The story, of a man who throws away his talent and lives for pleasure, is sprawling, told in nearly two-dozen scenes. Deconstructing theatrical conventions, it is episodic and non-linear and, in a full production, it can run more than three [...]

February 13, 2013No CommentRead More

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