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 […]
BY TRAV S.D. | ‘Tis surely no accident that the Irish Repertory Theatre has chosen the month of June in which to premiere Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom, a theatrical adaptation of the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses (aka Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy or the Penelope chapter). The events of the novel famously take place […]
BY TRAV S.D. | April 2019 marks the 80th Anniversary of the groundbreaking 1939 New York World’s Fair. To mark the occasion I’ve booked two talks at two related locations, one in Brooklyn, one in Queens. Sunday, April 28, 3pm: Backstage at the ’39 World’s Fair | The 1939 New York World’s Fair was famously held […]