785 posts categorized "THEATRE"

Nov 10 2023
Everybody's Dead: A Review Of The New Noir Play ODE TO THE WASP WOMAN Comments (0)

Ode-wasp-woman-susan-cabot-sean-young-boyculture(Image via WaspWomanPlay.com)

“Well, what can you say?”

With that tension-breaking line, tragic Hollywood actress Susan Cabot — played with ironic verve by Sean Young in her NYC stage debut —  eulogizes herself in Rider McDowell's awkward yet occasionally compelling play Ode to the Wasp Woman, which briskly chronicles the last two days in the lives of four Hollywood cautionary tales.

Screenshot 2023-11-10 at 1.55.48 AMThe play covers (L-R) Susan Cabot, George Reeves, Barbara Payton & Carl Switzer. (Images via stills)

It is a perfect moment to laugh, one of which Young takes full advantage, screwing up her face conspiratorially, bonding with the audience after we have just watched a dramatization of what led to Cabot's murder at the hands of her own son. Cabot's story — the starlet ended her film career with Roger Corman's The Wasp Woman in the '50s before sinking into depression — is only a quarter of the play, yet it involves the fickleness of fame, mental illness, forced medication, brutal murder and some light incest, making it clear why Young would find the part juicy enough to tackle. She also gets to read from a 1986 copy of the porno mag Gallery about shaved pussies ... and to make an overbearing, insecure, narcissistic mother come off as weirdly sympathetic.

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Nov 08 2023
MEAN GIRLS (The Musical) Gets A Trailer Comments (0)

Mean-girls-poster-boycultureWhat if it had been directed by ERIKA Jayne? (Image via Paramount)

In what appears to be an idiotic move by Paramount, the first trailer for the movie adaptation of the Mean Girls Broadway musical does not emphasize, or admit, that this is a musical ...

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Joe Putignano's Family Needs Help + DeSantis Appeals Ridiculous Hamburger Mary's Case + Male Trans Actor Not Allowed To Play Male Role + Luckinbill Remembers White & MORE! — 12-PACK Comments (0)

ABOVE: Mom always said don't ball in the house.

BELOW: Keep reading for a way to help Joe Putignano's surviving husband, DeSantis's thin skin, a tender tribute to a late actor and more ...

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Nov 07 2023
Paul Mescal's Short-Shorts Gallery + Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey's Staging A Comeback + Cast & Crew Of FELLOW TRAVELERS Speak Out About Queer Awakenings + MORE! — 6-PACK Comments (0)

ABOVE: Happy birth-week to gay dreamboat Howard McGillin.

BELOW: Keep reading for Paul Mescal, Fellow Travelers, Boy George and more ...

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Nov 03 2023
Miguel Ángel Silvestre Shows A LOT Of Skin + RIP Peter White, THE BOYS IN THE BAND Actor + Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty, Guilty, Guilty + MORE! — 6-PACK Comments (0)

ABOVE :Burt Lancaster was fucking hot.

BELOW: Keep reading for an actor who shows more than the usual in his butt shot, the sad passing of Peter White, the happy conviction of a scumbag and more ...

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Oct 11 2023
Tennis Stud + Santos's Felony Collection Expands + Kari Lake Helps Ruben Gallego + Madonna's French Musical + MORE! — 12-PACK Comments (0)

ABOVE: Plus, he's smart!

Bodybuilders-1941-gay-boycultureThe boys of 1941 ... (Image via video still)

BELOW: Keep reading for more of the guys you see above ...

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Sep 18 2023
Top-Bottom-Vers Debate + You Are Entering Man's Country + Trump Coddled By Media Eager For Drama + Yoel Roth On Trump/Musk's Smear Campaign + Coming Out @ 60 + MORE! — 12-PACK Comments (0)

Gay-photo-postcard-1920s-boyculture(Images via Peter Miller collection/New York)

ABOVE: This 1928 real-photo postcard screams gay — “Typical Butterly Photo,” it says, and “Don't Touch My Lips That I Just Painted.” If anyone can translate it all, I'm all ears.

BELOW: All about tops/bottoms/verses, Trump chugs along toward fascism, you are now entering Man's Country and more ...

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Sep 17 2023
Billy Miller Dies # 43 + Mayor Pete Pushes Through + Jann Wenner Jettisoned + THE SIXTH REEL & DICKS: THE MUSICAL Movement + Hottest Model Ever? + MORE! — 12-PACK Comments (0)

ABOVE: Hirsute, hirsute his, three's company, too!

BELOW: Keep reading for soap star succumbs to depression, Mayor Pete pushes through, Dicks delay and more ...

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