BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I hope you’re having a wonderful Pride month. Just make sure to tip your drag queens! Drag has been ridiculously under attack by haters and as a result, I always crack that today’s drag stars will end up with an Emmy in one hand and handcuffs on the other. For years […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | There’s something satisfying about the fact that while self-aggrandizing lawmakers in Tennessee and other states were spending 2022/2023 trying to limit, license, discourage, and otherwise disavow drag, Sherry Vine and friends were creating six episodes of variety television that plays such pomposity for laughs, while putting the pursuit of cock where […]
ROUNDUP BY SCOTT STIFFLER (additional content to post here throughout June) The Village: A Disco Daydream | Take it from somebody who saw her on stage with the long-running sketch ensembles Unitard and the Nellie Olesons: The comedic creations of writer/performer Nora Burns demand your attention. Alternately sexy, sardonic, silly, sad, sublime, and a million […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Dirty, dirty, bad Bunny! This “Lady” in name only knew what she was doing when naming her new show Don’t Bring the Kids—and you’ll have your proof of that within the first few seconds of this relentless smorgasbord of scatological humor and sex jokes. Yes, Lady Bunny is back, every Tuesday […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Don’t let the elbow-length gloves, the cat-eye glasses, or the bouffant hairdos pull focus from what’s really going on when The Kinsey Sicks take the stage. Their look may evoke Eisenhower-era cocktail culture throwbacks—but get their liberal dander up, and these ladies are more than ready for a throwdown. And throwdown […]
The enduringly entertaining Pandora Boxx has done much to distinguish herself besides having the distinction of competing on the sophomore season of a little show called RuPaul’s Drag Race. Since then, the Season 2 contestant has returned to RPDR as a Season 1 and 6 All Stars competitor—all the while, racking up credits as an […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Even though a lot of today’s drag queens steer away from punny names, I think it’s important to emphasize those types of appellations because they’re just so damned hilarious, and there’s so much history behind them too. Well, I’ve given you the best such noms de plumage before, and now I’ve […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | When the all-male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974, being gay could get you into lots of trouble. The Stonewall Riots were still fresh in New Yorkers’ memories; the AIDS crisis, which decimated the original company, lay ahead. The male dancers’ portrayals of ballerinas on pointe were […]
Theirs is a friendship decades in the making–or faking? Best not to dive too deeply into the psychological underpinnings of the dynamics involved in a project from drag legends Jackie Beat and Lady Bunny. That said, it’s perfectly legit to wonder what caused the stars to align and create the upcoming December 16-18 performances of […]
On Tuesday, November 29, New York City is the highly appropriate last stop on the nine-city Letters Live/Good Juju tour, in which damn fine divas Peppermint and Jujubee claim their place in the pantheon of post-pandemic live performance events. Highly appropriate how, you ask? Well first of all, after feeding the needs of hungry audiences […]