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12+ Sizzling Performing Arts Shows In Philadelphia This July

12+ Sizzling Performing Arts Shows In Philadelphia This July | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The fireworks aren’t just in the sky this July with these impressive displays of Philadelphia performing arts. From installation performances at an art mus
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Dance, Dance, Dance | James Whiteside’s White-Hot Summer Tour

Dance, Dance, Dance | James Whiteside’s White-Hot Summer Tour | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Lauded American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer, James Whiteside, launches an eclectic summer tour with stops in Los Angeles, Vail, Sun Valley and Tokyo.
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Why Simon Burke never ‘came out’

Why Simon Burke never ‘came out’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
THERE was a time when Simon Burke wanted to be a father.
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Why LGBT Theatre Needs to Start Telling New Stories

Why LGBT Theatre Needs to Start Telling New Stories | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

As LGBT Pride approaches, Alice Saville asks why London's glut of queer theatre is looking to the past, not the future.

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Gay theatre in London: how the capital's venues are flying the rainbow flag

Gay theatre in London: how the capital's venues are flying the rainbow flag | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Mark Shenton talks to some of the programmers, directors and playwrights involved with events celebrating Pride i
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Jerald Napoles confident about reprising gay role in ‘Caredivas’

Jerald Napoles confident about reprising gay role in ‘Caredivas’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The sought-after TV and film actor and host says he will always go back to his theater roots.
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Stand up for LGBT Youth With #TheaterKidsUnite During This Tony Awards Weekend

Stand up for LGBT Youth With #TheaterKidsUnite During This Tony Awards Weekend | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Hop onto your favorite social media platform and use the tag #TheaterKidsUnite to join the online conversation with some of your favorite celebrities.
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‘Classic Showbiz’ Tells the Fascinating Story of Forgotten Gay Comedy Pioneer Ray Bourbon

‘Classic Showbiz’ Tells the Fascinating Story of Forgotten Gay Comedy Pioneer Ray Bourbon | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff’s ambitious history of American comedy The Comedians is essential and invaluable in no small part because it does not profess to be authoritative or exhaustive. With a subject as vast and deep as American comedy, how could [...]
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How Illusionist Derren Brown Came Out After Rejecting Gay ‘Cure’ Therapy

How Illusionist Derren Brown Came Out After Rejecting Gay ‘Cure’ Therapy | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The star British illusionist is amazing audiences in his debut New York show. In a candid interview, he discusses ‘cure’ therapy, coming out, and how he found fame in magic.
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Maré Art Center Hosts First Ever LGBT Cultural Exhibition

Maré Art Center Hosts First Ever LGBT Cultural Exhibition | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The Maré Art Center was packed this past Thursday as the Theater of the Oppressed LGBT Lab hosted the First Favela LGBT Culture and Citizenship Exhibition. Attendees, ranging from high school stude…
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Soulo Theatre Fest Opens with Knock Out Show

Soulo Theatre Fest Opens with Knock Out Show | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Celebrating its 5th anniversary with an amazing line up of shows, workshops and panels, Toronto's Soulo Theatre Festival runs May 25-28 with all events except the Opening Night taking place at the RED Sandcastle Theatre in Leslieville.
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‘Where We Are Now’ LGBT Theatre Festival (Irish North-West)

‘Where We Are Now’ LGBT Theatre Festival (Irish North-West) | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The Rabbit’s Riot Theatre Company is a production company based in the north-west of Ireland, that aims to create thought-provoking and emotive theatre, using both established and new writing. Having just celebrated their first year anniversary, The Rabbit’s Riot has been bringing imaginative and topical theatre to audiences in Sligo, Leitrim and Dublin.

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Actor and 1998 Miss America Kate Shindle on LGBT rights, NEA and ‘Fun Home,’ and running for office someday

Q&A with Kate Shindle, 1998 Miss America and star of "Fun Home" at the National Theatre
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Into The Light LGBT 50 – A Participant’s Story Pt1

Into The Light LGBT 50 – A Participant’s Story Pt1 | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
After completing 14 hours of rehearsals, for community dance work Into The Light - part of LGBT 5O -  and with just, a week-and-a-half until showtime, it feels like the right time, to spend a few moments to reflect on where we are at.   Into The Light is described as “a fast-forward version of…
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Kate Shindle on the Queer Activism That Led Her to ‘Fun Home’

Kate Shindle on the Queer Activism That Led Her to ‘Fun Home’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Playing Alison Bechdel in a Broadway musical is the latest in the actor’s history of allyship.
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Brutal! Vulgar! Dirty! Mae West and the gay comedy that shocked 1920s America

Brutal! Vulgar! Dirty! Mae West and the gay comedy that shocked 1920s America | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Mae West was taken to court for writing The Drag – a play about a closeted gay socialite that ended up banned. Polly Stenham, who’s directing a revival, celebrates the star who took a limo to jail
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Black, Baptist and gay: One man's journey from Mississippi to Hollywood

Black, Baptist and gay: One man's journey from Mississippi to Hollywood | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Actor-playwright Giovanni Adams renders the hustler dad, stoic mom, religious grandmother and other colorful characters in an inspiring self-portrait.
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'Moulin Rouge' Being Developed as Broadway Musical

'Moulin Rouge' Being Developed as Broadway Musical | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The courtesan and penniless sitar player are making their way to Broadway. Considering that massive gay following that auteur Baz Luhrmann’s film “Moulin Rouge!” has enjoyed since it first debuted in 2001, the question of when the musical retelling of the Orpheus tale would hit the Great White Way has long been pondered. But that …
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Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era

Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
A reworked "Young Caesar" will play for one night only at Walt Disney Concert Hall, directed by Yuval Sharon after decades of revisions.
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Bergen County Players tackle gay marriage in nine short plays

Bergen County Players tackle gay marriage in nine short plays | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

"Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays," an evening of nine short plays by various writers that was first produced in 2009 — six years before national legalization — that will be staged for two performances on Saturday and Sunday by the Bergen County Players of Oradell. The nine-member cast is directed by Mark Rinis.

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LGBT theater events in New Orleans

LGBT theater events in New Orleans | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Storytelling, drama and opera productions with LGBT perspective
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Glitter and Be Gay at CANDIDE Opening 6/3 at Music Theatre Works

Glitter and Be Gay at CANDIDE Opening 6/3 at Music Theatre Works | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) presents the Leonard Bernstein classic, CANDIDE, based on Voltaire's satire on the follies of the human race, at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston, June 3 through 11. A 24-piece orchestra accompanies the well-known songs "Glitter and Be Gay," "The Best of All Possible Worlds" and "Make Our Garden Grow."
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Groundhog Day on Broadway

Groundhog Day on Broadway | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Dear Broadway Producers, Do we really need another musical based on a comedy film? Give me one good reason why I should bother shelling out hard earned money for another movie tossed onto the stage? One good reason, dammit! Andy Karl? Okay, sold! That’s right, theatergoers, I can absolutely, wholly and highly recommend “Groundhog Day,” …
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Ben Whishaw and Russell Tovey to feature in new monologues charting gay history

Ben Whishaw and Russell Tovey to feature in new monologues charting gay history | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Ben Whishaw, Alan Cumming and Russell Tovey will relive Britain's gay history in a series exploring the most significant moments in the fight for sexual equality.
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Immerse in the Now of Asian Theatre at Upcoming Fest

Immerse in the Now of Asian Theatre at Upcoming Fest | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

An emerging gay dance company from Cambodia will perform a story of inspired by Angkorian folklore about a Khmer king who mated with a naga to ensure the land’s fertility at an Asian theatre festival beginning later this month in Bangkok.

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