Camp Morning Wood — where self-loathing isn't optional. (Image by Aaron Cooper)
As the NYC theater scene tentatively puts its toe in the water post-pandemic, it's no surprise that the bawdy musical Camp Morning Wood is taking the plunge early, and with gusto.
Streep & Corden as Broadway babies toasting another failure. (Images via Netflix)
Ryan Murphy adapted Broadway's semi-hit musical The Prom for Netflix with the best of intentions — he said, at a post-screening Zoom Q&A Sunday, that he was moved by the idea of bringing an LGBTQ-positive message to a massive, global platform.
Unfortunately, he chose a creaky vehicle, one that asks us to consider that homophobes might not be sooo bad, except for their homophobia (imagine that message being delivered on race?), and then chooses the wrong actor to hammer the message home.
ABOVE: I guess this is what they mean by good light?
Pevsner is also a body-positivity activist. (Image via Fox on a Hill)
“Recovering narcissist” David Pevsner, a longtime actor in NYC theater and film, is the star of the one-man show Musical Comedy Whore!, which was filmed live and is out now.
I'm a huge fan. That's “fan” with an “N.” (Image via Netflix)
I'm dying to see The Boys in the Band on Netflix September 30. The Broadway show was sensational, and I had a blast at the after-party ... here's the new trailer:
Mart Crowley: August 21, 1935-March 8, 2020 (Image via video still)
Mart Crowley, who changed American theater with his trailblazing — and just plain blazing — gay-themed play The Boys in the Band (1968), died Sunday. He was 84.
Crowley's death was first reported by writer Michael Musto. He reportedly suffered a heart attack, had surgery, but passed away while recovering from surgery.
(Images via Michael Wakefield)
In The Confessions of Lily Dare, the new show written by and starring drag legend Charles Busch, the star is doing something he does better than anyone else — parodying classic Hollywood clichés so knowledgeably as to render his tour de force as much history lesson as hoot, as much affecting melodrama as high camp.
Let's toast to “you're toast.” (Images by Russ Rowland)
If you're late to the party on Drew Droege, that's okay — he's usually at one, at least onstage.
My Review of Bright Colors and Bold Patterns HERE
Following his exhaustingly well-observed and brutally funny tour de force Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, Droege is back with another vivisection of the lifestyles of the gay and familiar, Happy Birthday Doug.
