LGBTQ

Festival Review: “Julius Caesar” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Examines Power, Betrayal, and Gender Embodiment (Through October 26, 2025)

The first preview of the norm-disrupting production of “Julius Caesar” kicked off a promising start to this year’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival, now in its 90th season. During the preshow announcement, local playgoers and seasonal staff conveyed their pride for Ashland’s yearly homage to William Shakespeare’s masterworks with a level of cheering and applause one would expect to hear at a…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Conversations with Mother” at Theater 555 (Through Sunday, May 11, 2025)

The new play by Matthew Lombardo titled “Conversations with Mother” now playing Off-Broadway at Theatre 555, is a lighthearted and comical evening of entertainment, mostly due to the extremely talented cast. This eighty-five minute two-hander stars Caroline Aaron and Matt Doyle, who make use of their perfect timing and comedic skills to bring as many laughs as possible to the…

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Broadway Review: “Cult of Love” at the Helen Hayes (Currently On)

It is important to pay attention to the title of a play, especially in the case of Leslye Headland’s well-crafted “Cult of Love” currently running at the Helen Hayes. The Dahl nuclear family cult began early in the lives of the Dahl children. Diana (Shailene Woodley), Evie (Rebecca Henderson), Johnny (Christopher Sears), and Mark (Zachary Quinto) experienced a sheltered childhood…

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Broadway Review: “Eureka Day” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On)

What could go wrong at a private school whose five-member board of directors makes all decisions based on consensus and has what benefitted the community at heart as their guiding principle. A board so committed to inclusion that The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California’s cultural identity drop-down menu for prospective parents offers eleven choices. And if Eli (an oblivious…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Beacon” at the Irish Repertory Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 24, 2024)

In Nancy Harris’s “The Beacon,” currently on at the Irish Repertory Theatre, four characters navigate through life’s rough waters. Three make it. One is still lost at sea. The back wall of Beiv’s (Kate Mulgrew) cottage on an island off the coast of West Cork is made almost entirely of glass and looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean. Angst and…

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Broadway Review: “Tammy Faye” at the Palace Theatre (Final Performance on Sunday, December 8)

November 19, 2024 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Music > | "Tammy Faye", Alana Pollard, Allison Guinn, Allysa Shorte, and Andy Taylor, as well as Amanda Clement, Autumn Hurlbert, Aveena Sawyer, Brittany Nicholas, Casting is by C12 Casting/Carrie Gardner and Jillian Cimini, Charl Brown, Christian Borle, costume design by Katrina Lindsay, Dana Wilton, Daniel Torres, David Roberts, Denis Lambert, Elliott Mattox, Elton John, Ian Lassiter, Jake Shears, James Graham, Jonathan Duvelson, Katie Brayben, Keven Quillon, LGBTQ, lighting design by Neil Austin, Lily Kaufmann, Mark Evans, Matthew Murphy, Max Gordon Moore, Michael Cerveris, Michael Di Liberto, New York Theatre Reviews, Nick Bailey, Palace Theatre, Raymond J. Lee, Rupert Goold, scenic design by Bunny Christie, sound design by Nick Lidster for Autograph, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, TJ Tapp, video design by Finn Ross

The main problem with “Tammy Faye,” currently on at the Palace Theatre is not the vapid lyrics by Jake Shears or the bland book by James Graham. Unfortunately, the “New Broadway Musical” has nothing to do with the iconic PTL Club televangelist Tammy Faye. Not even the two-time Laurence Olivier Award winning Katie Brayben’s performance as Tammy Faye, or the…

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Broadway Review: “The Roommate” at the Booth Theatre (Currently On)

October 22, 2024 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "The Roommate", Bob Crowley (set & costume design), Jack O’Brien, Jen Silverman, Joseph Verlezza, LGBTQ, Matthew Murphy, Mia Farrow, Mikaal Sulaiman (sound design), Natasha Katz (Lighting Design), New York Theatre Reviews, Patti LuPone, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

It has been a long journey for “The Roommate,” the dark comedy by Jen Silverman, to finally arrive on Broadway since its premiere in 2015 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival. It was well worth the wait, since the current production now playing at The Booth Theatre stars Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone in a two hander that…

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Off-Broadway Review: The Church Is on Trial in Landmark Productions “The Saviour” at the Irish Repertory Theatre (Closed Sunday, August 13, 2023)

New York theater goers know Marie Mullen from her performance in “The Cripple of Inishmaan” as Billy Claven’s Aunt Kate who talks to stones, and from her performance in “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” as Meg who is desperate to escape from her tyrannical mother. Mullen returns to the New York Stage to play Maire the “Monster Irish Mother” in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dark Disabled Stories” Sadly Disappoints at the Public’s Shiva Theater (Closed Sunday, April 2, 2023)

I am an LGBTQ+ able-bodied and hearing person walking into the lobby of one of my favorite venues: The Public Theater. There is a notice on the door to mask up before entering. I am early and after masking up and picking up my ticket, I lean up against one of the columns in the lobby and check out my…

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Off-Broadway Review: “A Man of No Importance” Disappoints at Classic Stage Company” (Closed Sunday, December 18, 2022)

Currently running at Classic Stage Company, “A Man of No Importance” chronicles gay middle-aged bus conductor Alfie Byrnes’s (a gloomy and dispirited Jim Parsons) struggles to claim his agency in 1960s Dublin, Ireland’s repressive homophobic environment. His sexual status defines him as a criminal; however, Alfie self-defines as an ordinary man who secretly loves Robbie Faye (a spirited and generous…

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