The 2025 Tony Awards Gave These Queer Icons the Stage They Deserve
There’s no such thing as a straight Tony Awards. But the 2025 Tony Awards was notable for celebrating several queer people who really deserved it.
‘Bad Stars’ Is a Play About Heartbreak, Storytelling, and Worms
I have seen Bad Stars twice now. Before it ends its run at Collapsable Hole, I will have seen it three times. I would see it five times if I could.
‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Is Helen J. Shen’s Definitely Happy Beginning
“I feel like a year ago seems like a lifetime ago, even just in the journey of my own self-confidence and how much space I take up on a stage.”
Staying Up All Night With Kathryn Gallagher
Kathryn Gallgher talks about starring in the new play All Nighter, written by her best friend, and co-starring Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Alyah Chanelle Scott.
Trans Comedians and Theatre Makers Create J.K. Rowling Counter-Programming
“It’s really a choose your own adventure. You could just go see really great comedy. You could go see these tiny independent solo shows. There’s a reading of A Streetcar Named Desire with Alexandra Billings and Brian Michael Smith and Rain Valdez.”
Idina Menzel Returns to Broadway as a Lesbian in ‘Redwood’
Alas, Redwood is a missed opportunity to tell a meaningful story about grief, about nature preservation, and about a lesbian relationship.
How Rachel Rampleman Built the Largest Drag Archive in the U.S.
Life is Drag currently features over 350 video portraits by 200+ drag artists.
The Best Theatre Films of 2024 Weren’t Musicals
They weren’t even adaptations of plays.
For 50 Years, The Trocks Have Combined Pointe and Drag
This is the power of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Founded in the throes of the Gay Liberation Movement, the company runs on the freedom of self-expression and, of course, a love of ballet.
The 30 Longest Running Broadway Musicals, Ranked by Lesbianism
Thanks to the Wicked movie, theater gays are so up.
For Justin Vivian Bond, Glamor Is Resistance
“I have every intention of continuing to keep it pretty, keep it shallow, and keep it moving.”
No Matter Where You Live, You Can Stream These Short Plays by Black Trans Women Tonight
Multi-hyphenate playwright Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi shares the origin and intention of Black Trans Women at the Center, a theatre festival now in its fifth year.
Queer Ballerina Shaelynn Estrada Really F*cking Loves Ballet
“In terms of classical ballet — and even most contemporary works — it’s all about the guy saving the girl. That’s the dynamic. It’s always a girl and a guy. And like bang bang cool I’m obsessed with it. Literally. I love it. But it creates a culture. It’s not even just that no one talks about it — it’s like it doesn’t exist.”
‘The Lonely Few’ Is a Frustrating Attempt at the Next Great Lesbian Musical
The mediocrity of Broadway means shows like these have even more responsibility to value basics like character and setting, to ground our stories in all their complexity.
Welcome to the Dollhouse: With a New Musical, Trans Artists Honor Another
Doll/Girl, a musical portrait of trans artist Greer Lankton, is exactly what’s been missing from the American theatre.
‘Orlando’ Reclaims a Queer Text
Does Virginia Woolf belong to the cis feminists or to the transsexuals?
Jinkx Monsoon Is Filled With Rage — and a Lot of Hope
“I’m just as much an actor as I am a transfeminine person. Actor feels like part of my gender identity.”
The LGBTQ+ NYC Artists Archive Project Aims to Preserve the Unpreservable
“Archiving performance is a theoretical notion. How can you archive something ephemeral that happened in the past?”
Peaches Christ and Mink Stole vs. Death
Peaches Christ wants to make sure artists young and old, dead and living, are properly celebrated. That’s true whether she’s mentoring future Drag Race winners or writing a show with her idol turned friend, Mink Stole.
Our Lady J on “Transparent,” “Pose,” and Returning To Live Performance
“I want to remind anyone who is reading this that it is possible to survive. There is a richness in our history that we can call upon to learn how to survive.”