Executive Director of PhillyGayCalendar
You’re walking to the Gayborhood when BAM! You’re surrounded by perky undergrads with clipboards, trying to get you to donate money to an organization. Is it me, or are these fundraisers not only annoying but ethically corrupt?
Pina Bausch, the well-known choreographer and subject of the recent documentary film Pina, once said of her dancers, I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them. I couldn’t help but be reminded of Bausch’s style as I watched the open rehearsal for Tangle Movement Arts’ production of Break/Drift/Resist, which plays as part of the 2013 Philly Fringe Arts festival.
If your life is feeling like an episode of Hoarders, this fall may be the perfect time to try some of these strategies.
The premiere work will feature a seven-women cast that will navigate a forest of aerial equipment, chase each other across the stage, and explore how groups adapt, transform, and absorb shock.
Fly in, check in and vacation like a couple on this Very Special Island! ‘A little piece of northern Europe in the southern Caribbean’.
The absolutely absurd play The New Century, written by Paul Rudnick, is, for the most part, unquestionably self-aware of just how campy and ridiculous it is. However, right along with the camp is a heartfelt pulse of what it means to be human, what it means to be gay, and how these elements collide.
Someone Brought Me is the type of work that reminds us why we go to the theater: to be moved, to be transported, to be reminded that, no matter how unrealistic the world on the stage may be, there is a part of us that relates to the story.
The talk-back panel discussion with members of the cast of COLD and of the LGBTQ community in Philadelphia will discuss the changing realities of gay acceptance in public places, the play itself, and what it means that Philadelphia has lost it’s only lesbian bar.
Denise Cohen’s birthday is August 14, which, this year, is highly ironic. Cohen was the manager of the now shuttered Sisters, Philadelphia’s only lesbian bar, which closed earlier this week on August 12.
Both Frank Schierloh and Katherine Perry, who play the characters of Michael and Tam, respectively, are the true winners of Sarah Gafgen’s production.
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