He’s toured the West Coast and London with Native New Yorker—but for Charles Busch, there’s no place like home, and no better way to chart his personal and professional journey than by revealing himself through the works of Michel Legrand, Stephen Sondheim, Rupert Holmes and others, who give the show its distinct notes of celebration […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | It’s fitting that one of the first world premiere commissions to inhabit newly minted Hudson Yards arts mecca The Shed mirrors that eight-level gallery, theater, and rehearsal venue’s versatility. Billed as a “kung fu musical,” Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise requires of its 20-member cast a mastery of combat skills, physical comedy, […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | The queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race come and go at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, in all shapes and sizes and forms of presentation—from the intimate audience engagement of Raja to the reflective ballads of Scarlet Envy to the meticulously scripted comedy of BenDeLaCreme to the tour de force songbook of Ginger […]
BY MAX BURBANK | It’s been about a week, and I still can’t figure it out. Because you know I love me some Fourth of July. I mean, it’s got two things I’m a total sucker for: Non-violent, brightly colored ordinance exploding in the sky, and the dramatic tension caused by the reverent celebration of […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | The 22nd Annual Community Art Jam opened on June 13 with a reception held at the Hudson Guild Gallery (441 W. 26th St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.), where community artists of all experience levels will show their work through August 13. The line of artists to pick a number determining […]
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BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | The malicious and fiery destruction of Henry Jarrod’s lifelike wax figures, and the consequences wrought from that act, may continue to unsettle audiences of 1953’s House of Wax. But the only things melting at the June 25 screening were hearts, as film buffs spoke reverently of the film and its star, […]
BY GERALD BUSBY | Collaborating with young gay writers, filmmakers, and choreographers has been a major stimulus to my creative life as an 83-year-old composer. The same could be said of my association with young straight artists as well, though I’ve felt a special satisfaction, a completion really, in sharing my history as a gay […]