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Although [Terrence] McNally’s gay bona fides are beyond question, he resists being labeled a “gay playwright.”
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The WOW of Theater
These two books on overlapping topics are a pleasure to hold and to look at. Memories of the Revolution is a standard-sized paperback with a collection of photos in the center, and The Only Way Home Is through the Show is a large paperback art book, lavishly illustrated throughout.
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The Passion of the Wilde
The Judas Kiss A play by David Hare Directed by Neil Armfield Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto, March 22–May 1 Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC, May 11–June 12 …More
Scenes from a Modern Marriage
Dada Woof Papa Hot A play by Peter Parnell Directed by Scott Ellis At the Lincoln Center Theater IN OUR AGE of same-sex marriage and parenting, a play…More
Arts Briefs
Reviews of the film Compared to What? The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, Madonna’s album Rebel Heart, the play The Submission.
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In his plays, Williams depicts writers who know each other socially as squabbling rivals, trading banter: Hemingway and Fitzgerald bicker in his Clothes for a Summer Hotel; and in…More
Flee, Flee This Sad Hotel
IT WAS A PROFILE that John Lahr published in The New Yorker that led him to this biography of Tennessee Williams—a profile of the Lady St. Just, an over-zealous friend…More
Cabaret Just Keeps Getting Zanier
Cabaret Directed by Sam Mendes Roundabout Theatre Company, New York City IF YOU ONLY KNOW the musical Cabaret from the iconic Bob Fosse film starring Liza Minnelli and Michael…More
In the Age of the ‘Gay Minstrel’
Beane’s play packs gay social history and local Big Apple politics into his bittersweet dramatic comedy that has as its hero one Chauncey Miles, a successful burlesque actor known for his “nance” portrayals.
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Reviews of the play Hit the Wall, and the albums OUTlaw and One True Thing.
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