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...
New Boston Playwrights Collective Delivers Riveting Night
When a graduate student at the Boston Architectural College, a bright young man with a promising future, went missing in 2012, Boston playwright Cassie M. Seinuk's mind went to an unusual place: what if...
Ryan Landry dishes on ‘M’ at the Huntington Theatre
"Prestigious? What exactly is that supposed to mean?" Landry replied in response to a question about his new play 'M' being produced by the "prestigious" Huntington Theatre. "In my humble opinion, the word 'prestigious'...
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...
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...
Giselle Byrd, LGBTQ+ advocate and producer, named new executive director of The Theater Offensive
After a nationwide search, The Theater Offensive is proud to present theater and film producer, talentmanager, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Giselle Byrd as its new executive director. The appointment makes Byrd the...
Hate group marches from Maine to New Hampshire to protest drag queen reading stories...
File this one under bizarre but disturbing stories: Yesterday, Jan. 12, LGBTQ Nation reported on "a group of sad white men," members of the Nationalist Social Club, marching in protest from Maine...
Out Vermont Writer Alison Bechdel’s Broadway musical wins 5 Tonys
"Fun Home," the new Broadway musical based on the graphic memoir of Vermont's Alison Bechdel ("Dykes to Watch Out For") won five Tony Awards at the June 7, 2015 ceremony, including Best Musical, Best...
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...
The Welcoming Committee to bring LGBTQA revelers to Boston Ballet
Bringing together more than 200 LGBT folks and their friends to attend the Wednesday, Dec. 9, performance of the Boston Ballet's "The Nutcracker," the Boston branch of the The Welcoming Committee, partnering with the Boston Ballet,...
