Burlesqued Biography ‘Galas’ a Fitting Tribute to Ludlam, Done with Love and ‘Pride’

Burlesqued Biography ‘Galas’ a Fitting Tribute to Ludlam, Done with Love and ‘Pride’

BY TRAV S.D. | Are you feeling what I’m feeling? Excitement about Pride Month seems particularly marked this year, most likely because it is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that helped spark the modern Gay Rights Movement in America, but undoubtedly also because the community’s hard-won rights are once again under threat from […]

This Week in Chelsea: June 17-23, 2019

This Week in Chelsea: June 17-23, 2019

It’s this website’s prerogative to change its mind–or at least change formats. That’s why all of the activities you’ve enjoyed reading about in our “Today in Chelsea” section are now to be found here, fresh every Monday, in our “This Week in Chelsea” section. Keep checking this page throughout the week, because we’ll be adding […]

BenDeLaCreme Serves Wit and Wisdom, in New Wedding-Themed Show

BenDeLaCreme Serves Wit and Wisdom, in New Wedding-Themed Show

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Thank God it was Friday. And thank heavens for an artist who came to slay, and did just that. Friday, June 14, in her fourth solo show to premiere at NYC’s Laurie Beechman Theatre, writer/performer BenDeLaCreme proved herself a kitchen sink creative force adept at blending videos, voice-overs, puppetry, bawdy burlesque, […]

Grassroots in Full Bloom at CRDC’s May Meeting

Grassroots in Full Bloom at CRDC’s May Meeting

BY DONATHAN SALKALN | Frontline advocates for statewide reform in the areas of criminal justice, election law, education, campaign finance, and healthcare reported on their Albany wins and losses, at the May 16 general meeting of the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club (CRDC), held at the Hudson Guild Elliott Center. With a newly elected Democratic majority […]

Running for his Dance Life: British Doc Celebrates Superstar Nureyev

Running for his Dance Life: British Doc Celebrates Superstar Nureyev

BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The second film about Rudolf Nureyev to hit the city this spring (the first being the The White Crow, a Ralph Fiennes-directed biopic), Jacqui and David Morris’s 2018 Nureyev is much the more powerful, entertaining, and affecting. A British production released abroad last September, it incorporates documentary film footage of the […]