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Growing up a straight white boy in small-town New Hampshire, I wasn't exactly destined to care about Broadway musicals, much less love them and write essays about how we may be living in a n…
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Donald Trump had reportedly narrowed …
Silence is golden in Bess Wohl's exquisite play set at an upstate meditation retreat where six strangers take (and mostly break) a vow not to speak. But baser metals also emerge from the vac…
The New York Musical Festival officially begins today, which means that thousands of NYMFomaniacs with soon be swarming into Midtown theaters in the hope of discovering the next big musical-…
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Marti Gould Cummings is one of the most prevalent drag performers in New York, with a Monday night talk show a…
Michael MustoMoviesTheater & DanceNightlifenew york cityMichael MustoThis month marks the 50th anniversary of Jacqueline Susann's sensational best seller The Valley of the Dolls, the one…
Michael Mustocheyenne jacksonJoan RiversTheater & DanceMoviesLady GagaAmerican Horror StoryMichael MustoIt's a real Renaissance for Cheyenne Jackson"that's the name of the actor/singer's…
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Michael MustoTheater & DanceTONY AWARDStransHillary ClintonMichael MustoThe horrifying massacre in the Orlando gay club Pulse early Sunday truly took a lot of the urgency out of "Best Li…
Anyone who attends Conor McPherson's Shining City a second time won't be surprised by a certain coup de théâtre at the very end. Those who saw it at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2006 know w…
To help whet your whistle for the Ailey engagement, one of New York's premiere dance shows, here are twelve of the beautiful dancers (including Yannick Lebrun) who will be performing in thos…
The 70th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS on June 12 from the Beacon Theatre. So now it's time for our annual tradition, dear reader, of bestowing our can't-lose predictions about…
Drama cannot happen without a controlled release of information that keeps the characters in the room and the audience wanting more. It helps to have vivid dialogue, an unpredictable plot an…
Michael MustoNightlifelesbianMichael MustoOne good thing about being in a relationship is that you apparently get twice as many emails and messages. What I mean is that a lot of gays traditi…
Divas and dancers stop the show on our definitive ranking of the best musical Tony Awards performances of all time
Michael MustoRuPaul's Drag RaceTheater & DanceNightlifenew york cityMichael MustoThe Atherton Twins in Paramour. Photo by Matt Beard.
Can a show be kinetically exciting yet dulli…
British pop star Leona Lewis will play faded-glamour puss Grizabella in the upcoming Broadway revival of Cats, the production confirmed today. This is good news for theater fans who had worr…
The global neocircus giant Cirque du Soleil does things no else on Broadway can. Its acrobats execute quadruple backflips off a teeterboard, their heels seeming to brush the rigging high abo…
In the myth, Eurydice didn't have much of a choice. She died, woke up in the underworld and waited around for Orpheus to save her. Not so in Hadestown, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's …
British playwright Nick Payne excels at a subgenre let's call the Science Weepie. He deploys facts to frame or metaphorize the problems of his protagonists, and the collision of data and hum…
Let's go to camp.
Bonur Tristesse (1958)
The Best of Everything (1959)
Dead Ringer (1964)
The Trip (1967)
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Bars are outstanding factories for human suffering"and deliverance. Everywhere from Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh to Louis C.K.'s hauntingly great web series Horace and Pete, watering h…
Michael MustoTheater & DanceLea DelariabroadwayAudra McDonaldMichael MustoPuerto Rican born Holly Woodlawn livened up Andy Warhol films like Trash and Women in Revolt with sultry charm a…
Audra McDonald has always been full of surprises, and her latest is a lulu. The national treasure and Tony Award hoarder, currently starring in Broadway's Shuffle Along, announced today that…
Michael MustoTheater & DanceJessica LangeRuPaul's Drag RaceMichael MustoDoesn't it seem as if we LGBTs initiate a slew of social and cultural trends, which are later anxiously co-op…
