‘Dear Evan Hansen’ lead Ben Platt is Hasty Pudding’s 2020 Man of the Year
Best know by many as the lead in the life-affirming, LGBTQ-beloved musical "Dear Evan Hansen," Ben Platt is also a Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning actor and musician. And now the out, gay triple threat...
P’town approves Ryan Murphy to begin shooting new show there next month
Part-time Provincetown resident and openly gay TV show creator and producer extraordinaire Ryan Murphy has been cleared by P'town board of selectmen to begin shooting what is thought to be the...
Stage legend Everett Quinton returns to Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Sept. 26–29
Through new interpretations of his plays and by pairing him with notable literary masters spanning continents and time periods, the annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, running September 26–29, keeps the great American playwright in...
King Richard’s Faire is LGBTQ-welcoming, inside and out
“Disneyworld might be the happiest place on Earth,” says Richard Weber, “but Renaissance fairs are the most welcoming.”
Weber knows whereof he speaks. He...
Seth Sikes’ Judy and Liza-inspired show to make Boston debut at Club Café
While other budding show queens born in the 1980s were lip synching to Madonna and Whitney Houston, Seth Sikes was devouring a...
Boston’s satirical drag cabaret Fresh Fruit to be reborn at Club Café
For 13 years, aughties-decade audiences went bananas over the antics of Fresh Fruit—a drag-cabaret troupe that took over Boston’s Club Café with deliciously double-entendre-filled skits and spoofy, satirical songs that lampooned everything from gay...
Provincetown to ring in new year with ‘First Light’ weekend, Dec. 29–Jan. 1
Provincetown is getting ready to bid farewell to 2022 and welcome in 2023 with First Light (Dec. 29–Jan. 1), their final celebratory weekend of the year, with fireworks, entertainment, dance parties, special dinners...
First episode of ‘Hightown,’ Starz TV series set in Provincetown, released
The first episode of "Hightown"—Starz TV's gritty crime drama series set in Provincetown with a hard-living lesbian federal fisheries agent hero—has just been released.
Will the series do...
Fans create petition to save ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ party’s Allston venue
Fans of the Allston club Great Scott, which hosted the long-running LGBTQ dance party "Don't Ask Don't Tell," have created a petition to keep the live-music and dance venue open.
Newly released Stephen King film sequel portrays ‘painful true chapter of LGBTQ history in...
The Bangor Daily News reported this week that Maine resident Stephen King believes it was important to include an LGBTQ hate crime included in his book that inspired both a TV miniseries, a big...
