Marga Gomez’s Love/Hate Letter to Her Lesbian Role Models
In her raunchy new solo show ‘Pound,’ the solo performer takes on filmic stereotypes—and tries to one-up crude male comics.
All Stories About #Pride
Christine Howey Traces Her Transgender Journey in ‘Exact Change’
She already crossed a gender line. Now this northeast Ohio critic is crossing another barrier to become a playwright/performer.
Taylor Mac's 'Hir': Just Your Average Kitchen-Sink, Genderqueer Family Drama
The performance artist-turned-playwright wrote his first naturalistic play about gender, family and trans issues, and along the way he fell in love with the form.
Boston’s Theatre Offensive Returns To Its Roots
Eliza Bent on Theatre Offensive’s relevance makeover.
How Split Britches Joined Lesbian Performance With the Avant-Garde
At the seminal WOW Cafe and beyond, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have inspired generations of theatremakers with their seriously playful hybrid of vaudeville, drag, and postmodern appropriation.
Gay-Marriage Plays: Changing Minds or Simply Celebrating the Change?
With a spate of new plays depicting the newest revolution in marriage rights, playwrights and producers ponder their role in the drama.
A Gay Marine’s Journey Home
A crisis of conscience in Iraq becomes the raw material for ‘The Eyes of Babylon.’
Glamming It Up With Taylor Mac
A drag performer and playwright fiercely embodies his own speculations about beauty and imperfection.
The Angels Decade: 22 Interviews
With an HBO miniseries on the way, voices from inside and outside the theatre world reflect on enduring influence of Kushner’s epic.
Art Attack
What do Plato and Pat Buchanan have in common?
