BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the prime season running through September and beyond. Here’s a rundown of my latest trip there, specifically involving which drag queens provided the most entertaining distraction from panic—and what they wore. PLASMA […]
BY TIARA BROWNIE | Amy Sherald is an American realist painter known for her portraits of Black Americans that challenge traditional notions of representation and explore themes of identity and belonging. On view at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Whitney) through August 10, Sherald’s solo exhibition, American Sublime, features nearly 50 portraits, delivering a […]
BY MICK MEENAN | The Stonewall Uprising that followed a June 28, 1969 NYPD raid on a Christopher Street gay bar was only the beginning in a series of historical events that would reshape queer consciousness, and society along with it. Among the significant developments following the Stonewall Uprising was the publishing industry’s more receptive […]
This year’s final full month of summer is set to start off with some serious drag-centric sizzle, when local fave Yuhua Hamasaki returns to the iconic place where she once reigned as Miss Stonewall. Performed on Wednesday, August 6, 7pm at The Stonewall Inn, An Evening with Yuhua promisees a unique and dishy cabaret experience […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ******************************* BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Every year, the Drama Desk awards […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. BY MICHAEL MUSTO | No one is easier to hate on […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. Pearl River Mart Presents THE MONKEY KING IN CHINATOWN: ILLUSTRATED JOURNEYS OF […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ************************************************ BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Scads of major shows have descended […]
Matthew Westerby Company Performance Season 2025 At the Murray Haber Theatre at Hudson Guild (446 West 26th St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.) Thursday through Saturday, April 24, 25, 26 at 7:30pm and Sunday, April 27 at 5pm. Tickets are $30 General Admission, $20 for students, artists, older adults. To purchase, click here —ALSO— MWC’s […]
BY TRAV S.D, (Reprinted with author’s permission from its original publication here on Travalanche March 11 is the birthday of downtown impresario Robert Prichard, co-founder and bull goose looney of the much-missed performance space known as Surf Reality (or, by the full title, Surf Reality’s House of Urban Savages). I’ve had cause to mention Surf close to […]