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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.”
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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.
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A Big, Black and Queer-Ass Broadway Show Is Closing, “A Strange Loop” Filled My Nerd Heart
It really is a “big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show,” and I’m heartbroken that it won’t get to play longer.
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25 Broadway Musicals You Can Stream Online
Now is the time to seize the day and get lost in a Broadway musical streaming online. Some of them are streaming for free, even.
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Sins Invalid’s “Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom” Features Crip Art, Activism, Love & Liberation
“We deserve to have art that is by us and for us and is us being complicated and depicting all our lives as they are, without simplifying or reassuring.”
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Team Pick: Why Aren’t You Listening To Brittani Nichols and Khalehla Rixon’s Hamilton Podcast Right Now
Have you all heard about this thing,”Hamilton?” I think it might be a play of some sort, perhaps something involving song and dance as well. People seem to really like it! Brittani Nichols has a podcast about it, in fact, and I demand you listen to it right meow.
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Watch Beth Malone Figure Out She’s a Lesbian In Her One-Woman Show “So Far” at Joe’s Pub
The Fun Home star returned to her roots at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York City on August 31st to perform a one-woman cabaret show following a rural lesbian through her tomboy childhood, an engagement (to a man!), her first stint as an actress in New York, another marriage (to a woman!), and her ever-tense relationship with her Colorado cowboy father.
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Jump Into Devised Theater: An Interview with Maggie-Keenan Bolger and Rachel Sullivan
“Cast members in a devised show are able to create and develop honest depictions of characters who hold the same identities as the actors. These representations are far more complex, interesting, and truthful than characters we as directors and creators could develop on our own.”
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Top Five Musical Theater Songs About Misandry
For when you hate men so much, you have to tap dance about it.
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“Fun Home” Made History Last Night and This Is Entirely About That
I never even thought there’d be a role in a musical for a masculine-of-center woman and then “Fun Home” made history, but it was already so much more to me.
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“It Shoulda Been You” Is Heartwarming, Relevant To Your Interests
A little over halfway through, an unexpected twist sends the expected story careening off the rails. I don’t want to spoil it for you, so I’ll just tell you this: I wish I brought tissues.
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Fun Home the Musical Snags 12 Tony Award Nominations
Here is a run down of the 2015 Tony Award nominations, including 12 nods for the musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir.
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“Post Traumatic Super Delightful” Uses Laughter To Talk About Campus Sexual Assault
“Hopefully because this dialogue is happening and we feel like we’re on the cusp of this conversation, people will understand how complex it is and how the survivor has no obligation to be what anyone wants them to be.”
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“Fun Home” The Musical Is Officially Heading To Broadway, Thank Goodness
After months of rumors, after winning all the Off-Broadway awards you can win, after a Pulitzer Prize nomination, “Fun Home” the musical is FINALLY transferring to Broadway! YESSSSSSSS!
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Choose Your Own Dreamscape Adventure at “Sleep No More,” an Immersive Theater Production
Sleep No More is a Lynchian lost world, a timewarp, and walking out of it, you feel like you might have just emerged from a fugue state.
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“Fun Home” is Relatable, Brilliant and Paving the Way for Women Musical Theatre Writers
Not only does Fun Home put a lesbian center stage, the lesbian character is a fully developed, three dimensional human being with thoughts, feelings, and complex issues.
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You Should Go: Fun Home the Musical is Finally Real, Going to Be Magic
Alison Bechdel’s “family tragicomic” hits off-Broadway this September. I need to know if there’ll be any dancing, so you need to go for me to find out.
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‘Sontag: Reborn’ Is Really Queer and Really Good
The stories told through this play are a fascinating insight into Susan Sontag’s life, as well as queer history. If you are in New York it is definitely worth checking out.
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NYC Play Lesbian Love Octagon Gets Six Thumbs Up From Three Of Us, All The Thumbs
This one time Gabby, Ali and Vanessa all went to The Lesbian Love Octagon, in New York City and then we all got together at a bar and, over Red Stripe, hashed out some of the finer points on our feelings.
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Queering Theatre: Heartache
“That summer, I learned a lot about separating myself from my work. There is no room on the stage for a performer’s personal problems. There are, however, cathartic elements that an actor gets while performing a show.”