George Takei to speak at BPL as his play ‘Allegiance’ opens in Boston
On Tuesday, May 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Boston Public Library, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and Boston Asian American Film Festival host actor, icon, and social media guru George Takei, best known as "Mr....
Provincetown Theater names Obie winner David Drake artistic director
The Provincetown Theater has just announced a new artistic director, and the name is ... (drumroll, please): Obie Award-winning playwright/performer ("The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me") David Drake!
"Beginning in 2010, David Drake has built...
Gender-bending cast re-stages old pioneer tropes of American history
Manifest Destiny was never this much fun.
That’s because playwright Jaclyn Backhaus plucks the “man” out of the term for the 19th-century belief that U.S. expansion West was justifiable and inevitable. Her off-Broadway comedy “Men...
Boston’s True Colors Earns National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award
The young thespians from the Boston-based theater program True Colors: Out Youth Theater and their grown-up program leaders from The Theater Offensive have earned a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, which will be...
Rhode Island theater group participates in international Pulse remembrance events
Join The Wilbury Theatre Group of Providence, RI, thespians from Brown University and the Providence Gay Men's Chorus in a theatrical evening of remembrance and reflection in response to the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in...
Gay single life in age of marriage equality takes the stage in season opener
(Editor’s note: This article appears in the current September/October 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.)
Playwright Joshua Harmon’s latest, "Significant Other," about a young gay man looking for love in New York...
Five Lesbian Brothers, Cuban-American Dance Theater Artist to shine at 2016 ClimACTS!
(Editor's note: This article appears in the current March/April 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.)
Over its more than 25 years of presenting bold theater and nurturing queer performers, The...
Young gay man and his family fight for their lives in post-9/11 psychological thriller
Playwright Jim Dalglish turned one of the most traumatic experiences of his life into art.
Dalglish, author of some 25 plays, many of which have been staged around the country, still has a day job...
Singing psychotherapist’s celebrated, one-man healing arts show to benefit AAC
The Boston-based, self-described "singing psychotherapist" Steven Cadwell is bringing his one-man show, "Wild & Precious," to the Club Café, 209 Columbus Ave., for a one-night only performance to benefit the AIDS Action Committee, where...
Theater Offensive hosts night of fun and games for LGBT community
Looking to get involved in the awesome LGBT theater community we all know (and love) as The Theater Offensive? Or want to just get together with fun people doing fun things for a fun...
