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Snow White and the Seven Poofs 2021!

Snow White and the Seven Poofs 2021! | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

London’s Number One Adults Only Pantomime Is Back! 
Yes, it’s back the hilarious Snow White and the Seven Poofs London’s favourite adult pantomime returns to the London stage for 2021 this time BIGGER BOLDER AND RUDER!!!

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‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub

‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Set at a Southern barbecue, James Ijames’s hilarious update on Shakespeare sees a recipe for liberation in the story of family disaster.

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Gainesville Community Playhouse spotlights LGBTQ stories in first musical of the season

Gainesville Community Playhouse spotlights LGBTQ stories in first musical of the season | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

‘Fun Home,’ based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, opened April 9 and will run until April 25.

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Brisbane Theatre Back With Bizarre Bang

Brisbane Theatre Back With Bizarre Bang | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Curators Theatre’s new venue in a historic church hidden behind Suncorp Stadium is bizarre but novel, with their latest gritty production staged to the sounds of trains and traffic and the occasional siren.

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LGBTQ trailblazers 20% Theatre Company announce final season

LGBTQ trailblazers 20% Theatre Company announce final season | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

For the past 15 years, 20% Theatre Company has presented productions showcasing voices that are often underrepresented on local stages. That has included plays written…

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NJ theater invites witnesses to ‘Execution of Justice’

NJ theater invites witnesses to ‘Execution of Justice’ | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

All 58 roles have been cast, but “understudies” still are welcomed to apply. Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center, in collaboration with the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, will host a free virtual community reading of McCarter artistic director and resident playwright Emily Mann’s 1985 docudrama “Execution of Justice” 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 22. The ensemble play, which premiered o

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Brian Francis was 21, gay and looking for love in 1992. His hit play about the experience is back in Toronto

Brian Francis was 21, gay and looking for love in 1992. His hit play about the experience is back in Toronto | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

In ‘Box 4901,’ Francis at 49 replies to the 13 men whose letters he never answered in ‘a hilarious, strange, sweet and awkward look back at how ga

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Theatre Calgary gets ‘Louder’ with show about teen boy fighting to take boyfriend to prom

Theatre Calgary gets ‘Louder’ with show about teen boy fighting to take boyfriend to prom | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The latest offering by Theatre Calgary is based on the true story of Canadian teen Marc Hall who fought for the right to bring his boyfriend to his Catholic high school prom.

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STAGE REVIEW: Gay History Month Play Series

STAGE REVIEW: Gay History Month Play Series | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Uptown Players’ Gay History Month Series offers up two one-act plays with very different takes on the gay exqueerience. The bright spot, fittingly enough, is Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, a solo piece starring Paul J. Williams as Gary, a middle-aged Angeleno on a weekend trip to Palm Springs for the wedding of one member …

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Brazil Artists Fear LGBT Shows Doomed Under Bolsonaro

Brazil Artists Fear LGBT Shows Doomed Under Bolsonaro | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The directors of the French-Brazilian theater company Dos a Deux, Artur Luanda Ribeiro (R) and Andre Curti (L), say censorship under Bolsonaro is more subtle than during the military dictatorship in the early 1980s

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Glam-rock musical 'The View UpStairs' celebrates vibrant gay community in New Orleans

Set in the UpStairs Lounge, a real-life French Quarter gay bar destroyed in a 1973 arson attack, the musical is directed by SpeakEasy founder and producing artistic director Paul Daigneault in a production marking its New England premiere.

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'Tear You Apart' at Rivendell Theatre is about millennial roommates, slowly breaking up

'Tear You Apart' at Rivendell Theatre is about millennial roommates, slowly breaking up | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Despite its misleading, click-baity title, “I Wanna (expletive) Tear You Apart,” now at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, is actually a variously sweet and (mildly) bitter play about roomie friendship and the intense, difficult-to-define relationships that (depending on how they turn out) can either merely suck up a lot of our 20s or sustain us for the rest of our lives.

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Curtain Calls: 'Man of No Importance' to play in El Cerrito

Curtain Calls: 'Man of No Importance' to play in El Cerrito | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

A young cast will perform in the story featuring an imagined Oscar Wilde character in 1964 Ireland.

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Powerful LGBT stage show comes to the Empire Theatre

Powerful LGBT stage show comes to the Empire Theatre | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

After sellout seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, My Other Closet, The Cabaret, a raw, personal and deeply affecting true-life account of domestic violence in a same sex relationship is coming to the Empire Theatre.

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Tears, murder and hate crimes: Young actor's moving role in Christchurch show

Tears, murder and hate crimes: Young actor's moving role in Christchurch show | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The story of the senseless murder of a gay man in 1998 has its New Zealand stage premiere in Christchurch this weekend.

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Transgender woman tackles role in 'I Am My Own Wife' at Omaha Playhouse

Transgender woman tackles role in 'I Am My Own Wife' at Omaha Playhouse | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

“Casting a transgender actor to play a transgender character not only respects the story, but also reveres the dignity of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who the play is based on.”

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Columbus playwright’s new work, ’The Sissy Chronicles,’ highlights self-acceptance

Mark Phillips Schwamberger considers himself a sissy — and he’s proud of it. The actor-writer, who is managing artistic director of Evolution Theatre Company, shares his life story as a gay man in "The Sissy Chronicles" as part of the first collaboration between Evolution and Abbey Theater of Dublin. The two will co-present the new hour-long solo piece, streaming Thursday through Sunday." Mark’s fascinating story can resonate with just about anyone," said director Joe Bishara,

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‘Online community’: Streaming short-play series commemorates Gay Pride

‘Online community’: Streaming short-play series commemorates Gay Pride | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

In mid-March, theater productions came to a standstill. Aaron Leventman began looking for ways to keep theater alive. He found innovative ways to present live theater online.

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Metro Detroit Twins Star In 'Pray The Gay Away' At Baldwin Theatre In Royal Oak

Metro Detroit Twins Star In 'Pray The Gay Away' At Baldwin Theatre In Royal Oak | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Twin brothers Zack and Michael Zakar began to realize they were gay in high school in Oak Park, but it wasn't until a rumor went around when they were 16, says Zack, that they came out to each other. Then a year later, their mother, a devout Catholic, asked Zach if he was gay, and when he and Michael finally came out to her, she didn't take it so well. "She left our house for three days and when she came back, sh

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Review: 'The Leopard Play or sad songs for lost boys’ at Steep Theatre

Even though he is living and working--for now, at least--in Chicago, the hugely talented young playwright Isaac Gomez is fast becoming the Bard of El Paso, Texas.

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‘Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror’ coming to Baltimore Soundstage in February

Expect performers to amp the outrageousness up several notches, making for an evening that’s fun, all-inclusive and decidedly R-rated.

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Dublin theatre festival review – gay clubs, glass houses and Greek tragedy

Dublin theatre festival review – gay clubs, glass houses and Greek tragedy | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Marina Carr’s Hecuba probes a mother’s grief, family secrets unravel in The Beacon and audiences are immersed in 80s LGBT+ Dublin in Faultline

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Torch Song Trilogy review: Harvey Fierstein's MASTERPIECE opens the new Turbine Theatre

Torch Song Trilogy review: Harvey Fierstein's MASTERPIECE opens the new Turbine Theatre | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

TORCH SONG TRILOGY remains Harvey Fierstein's magnificent MASTERPIECE and opens the new Turbine Theatre at Battersea Power Station. With top price tickets only £33, this is a treat for theatre-lovers.

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The pride of San Francisco: "I Am Harvey Milk"

The pride of San Francisco: "I Am Harvey Milk" | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus brings I Am Harvey Milk to New Mexico for the first time on Thursday, March 21, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. All 60 vocalists in the 38-year-old troupe perform, as well as three soloists: Bill Brooks as Milk, twelve-year-old Allen Dominguez as the young Milk, and soprano Ingela Onstad as a mother/muse figure.

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An all LGBTQIA+ cast explore their identities in this queer play

An all LGBTQIA+ cast explore their identities in this queer play | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Queer theatre company Outbox’s show, And The Rest Of Me Floats, is a playful, anarchic celebration of gender expression

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