#queer theater

[sawthemusical]

Thank you BNN!

#SAW THE MUSICAL #saw #saw franchise #saw movies #adam stanheight #lgbtq art #lgbtq theater #queer theater #queer art #off broadway #national tour #los angeles #lawrence gordon #chainshipping #parody #horror #horror musical #parody musical #amanda young #saw 2004

[kaliarda]

13 Νοεμβρίου - 5 Δεκεμβρίου στο Θέατρο Φούρνος

Η Θέλμα και η Ίρις είναι ένα ζευγάρι βρικολάκων. Μέσα στους αιώνες της ζωής τους, έχουν διαβάσει πολύ, έχουν ασχοληθεί με όλα τα είδη τέχνης και πνευματικής άσκησης και έχουν συναναστραφεί τους μεγαλύτερους καλλιτέχνες και διανοητές. Πνευματικά ελεύθερες, κοσμογυρισμένες και βαθιά πολιτικοποιημένες, έχουν αποφασίσει να σταθούν στο πλάι του ανθρώπινου είδους, συμμετέχοντας ενεργά σε κάθε αγώνα του ανθρώπου για την ελευθερία, την ισότητα και τη χειραφέτησή του! Βρίσκονται πάντα στην πρώτη γραμμή αποκρούοντας τη βία της εξουσίας και ενθαρρύνοντας τον αγωνιζόμενο. Ως σωστοί βρικόλακες της δικιάς τους φιλοσοφίας, επιλέγουν για τροφή τους μόνο άτομα επικίνδυνα για το κοινωνικό σύνολο (φασίστες, βιαστές, παιδόφιλους κλπ).

Οι δύο ηρωίδες, παρ’ όλη τη σοφία και την εμπειρία τους, θα βρεθούν τελικά αντιμέτωπες με ένα -αρκετά ανθρώπινο θα λέγαμε- δίλημμα. Το δίλημμα της γονεϊκότητας. Με μία απλή τους απόφαση -με ένα τόσο δα δαγκωματάκι!- μπορούν να δημιουργήσουν ένα νέο πλάσμα που να τους μοιάζει. Είναι όμως πράγματι τόσο απλή αυτή η απόφαση; Τί σημαίνει για την κάθε μία η έννοια της γονεϊκότητας; Η έννοια της οικογένειας; Είναι η μητρότητα ένα ένστικτο ή είναι μία επίκτητη κοινωνική ανάγκη; Είναι ένας τρόπος ολοκλήρωσης ή όχι; Τί θυσίες απαιτεί τελικά μια τέτοια απόφαση;

Το έργο “Θέλμα & Ίρις” πραγματεύεται, με ιδιαίτερα κωμικό και καυστικό τρόπο, υπαρξιακά ζητήματα που αφορούν τη ζωή και το θάνατο, τη μοναξιά και την ελευθερία, καθώς και τις ανθρώπινες σχέσεις υπό την πίεση των κοινωνικών συμβάσεων. Βρίσκεται στο μεταβατικό σημείο δύο αντίθετων καταστάσεων και κινείται διαρκώς στο μεταίχμιο μεταξύ συμβατικού και αντισυμβατικού τρόπου ζωής.

#lgbt greece #greek tumblr #queer theater #events #athens #θέλμα & ίρις #lesbian vampires

[manichewitz]

this might be a long shot but does anyone out there on the interwebs have a copy of i, joan by charlie josephine? its a play that retells the story of joan of arc as a nonbinary person. for some reason i can’t buy it from the concord theatricals website since i don’t live in the UK and that seems to be the only place its been officially licensed :/ someone pls help me out

#joan of arc #nonbinary #plays #theatre #theater #UK #acting #transmasc #representation #queer theater #queer theatre #UK theatre #the national theatre #charlie josephine #jeanne d’arc #nb #enby #.txt #alex talks

[shakespearenews]

ESTEBAN: Excuse me, I’m sorry, we’re also not queering Shakespeare. Shakespeare came to us queer as fuck. Okay?

ESCO: I’m just going off the text right now, like: oh, Feste is two-spirited. It takes a special human being to be able to move through this type of world. This cannot be someone that holds onto what society says is right. I cannot play Feste if I think that there’s only one way that’s right. That’s Malvolio! Who you are and what you would…

ESTEBAN: …are out of my welkin.

ESCO: I see you. Be you, boo. You are trying to survive. I’m trying to survive. And I see the survivalist in you. Do you, boo. You’re safe with me.

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ESCO: I want to say, growing up as a Black person, there were no Shakespeare books being thrown in front of me. And also with dyslexia, words are horrifying, terrifying. But if you have the right people around you, and the people who can see that you’re capable, and then also go, “Hey, would you like to join?” I’m very thankful for those people for giving me the opportunity, because I now want to pass on to other people that if you have the opportunity, and you feel safe enough, I think it’s a place to try—a place that should be explored. What they don’t know is that it’s for our people. It’s for the artists. It’s really for the artists. Some people have tried to make it so high and mighty and uppity. It’s not. It’s literally for the artists that are still trying to speak in code. Definitely do Shakespeare if you can. Which I would never have thought I would ever say, so it has to go on record.

ESTEBAN: I feel an aversion to Shakespeare in the way it’s practiced in this country, which is to be put as a museum piece up on a pedestal, up on a shelf. Also, even though there are some companies that have the word “American” in their name, whenever they do Shakespeare, they have to (puts on an affected British accent) put on a British lilt, and lift up the language so that it sounds “better.” So we already have this still like conquistador-able idea of what colonialism looks like, and we try and make it like people don’t see what they’re doing with Shakespeare when they’re doing that.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #theater #theatre #queer #queer theater #trans #trans actors #actors #acting #twelfth night #feste

[a-thread-of-green]

Based on Bloom Into You and Wandering Son, it seems that school plays in Japan:

Are always written by the students

Reflect the deep interpersonal trauma and longings of those students

Reveal or confirm that basically everybody involved is queer

This is very disappointing, as only one out of the three seemed to be true of theater at my high school

#disclaimer: I wasn't a theater kid #I just did some half-assed tech stuff to be close to the cool queer kids #bloom into you #yagate kimi ni naru #wandering son #horo musuko #theater #theatre #student theater #student theare #anime #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #queer theater #theater kids

[writernotwaiting]

#Galatea #John Lyly #queer theater

[bosguy]

Queer Theater in Boston

Angels in America is currently being performed by the Central Square Theater and The Huntington has just announced a special "Drag Me to Theatre" LGBTQ+ night to see Fat Ham on Tuesday, Sept 26. Click through for more details!

Central Square Theater presents Angels in America. Part 1: Millennium Approaches and Part 2: Perestroika performances will be on September 23, 30, and October 7. If you want to see only Part 2 Perestroika, started earlier this week. Check Central Square Theater’s website for more information about the production, when shows are being performed, and to get tickets. Additionally, The Huntington…

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#Angels in America #Central Square Theater #drag #Fat Ham #Huntington Theater #Queer Theater

[curhartwrites]

I'm on the Board of Directors for a small venue called The Painted Mug Cafe here in Philly. It's mostly an event space and show venue right now, but our goal over the next few years is to be able to open for regular cafe hours. It's important to me. Everyone on the board is Queer, and we created this space to fill a need in our community. Most of the Queer spaces in our city are bars and clubs, and none of them are accessible to disabled Queers like me (I'm mobility impaired). They're loud, dark, closely-packed places accessed by steep flights of stairs, where there is rarely a place to sit down, and where the imperative of most people in the space is to drink and flirt. Don't get me wrong, I like to drink and flirt. Those are two of my favorite pass times. But that's not true of everyone, and it's not true of any of us 100% of the time. Some of us are Party Gays who want to show up to a place full of moving Queer bodies, get blissfully intoxicated, dance and sing along to loud Queer music, and stumble home in someone's arms. And that's beautiful. I love everything about it. But some of us work more than one job and can't be out until three in the morning, or we're neurodivergent Queers who are uncomfortable in loud spaces with bright colorful lights. Some of us are physically disabled and can't safely be in a place where we might be knocked over by enthusiastic drunk dancers. Some of us have kids. Some of us are kids. Some of us are in recovery for substance use disorder, and are uncomfortable being in bars. This is why I love being a part of The Mug. We serve coffee and mocktails, and baked goods made by a local gay pastry chef. Our walls serve as a gallery space for Queer visual artists in the city. We host sober karaoke, all-ages drag shows, non-competitive and encouraging workshops for new performers, and weird theater and music. The money that we make goes directly into keeping the lights on and paying our staff a fair wage for their labor. Everything after that is being saved so that we can make the building more meaningfully accessible by adding a ramp, widening hallways and door frames, and remodeling our bathroom. Everything we do is in service to our community. We talk to our neighbors. Our featured performers let us know when they're home safe after a show. If someone on our staff shows up to a meeting and says that they're struggling to pay for groceries, we feed them. Being a part of this feels vitally important to me. When I left my hometown and ran to Philly looking for community, the Queer people here were ready to catch me. It's a blessing to be able to give some of that love and labor back to them now that I've been here long enough to have grown some roots. But it's also frightening, especially lately. Queer and trans people are always facing friction, but it's getting especially heated right now all across the country, and we're here being very loudly Queer and trans. If you're in Philly, come show us your support. Come to events and see what we're about. Donate so we can continue to build a haven for our community.

https://thepaintedmugcafe.com/

#queer community #philly #queer philly #queer spaces #harm reduction #queer art #drag #burlesque #queer theater #theater #indie #philly theater #tpmc

[inphront]

so the other day a castmate of mine was talking about having once been a little girl (at this point, i all but short-circuited because said castmate is a man in his mid-sixties and my brain had its little moment of “!!!!! trans person!!! and he’s OLD!!!!”) and being asked if there was a famous person he looked up to or wanted to look or be more like. and he said— again, as a little girl at this point— “santa claus!” and everyone thought he was weird for it.

and this story doesn’t read as well over text because you really have to see the guy. but he looks just like santa claus. he’s got the long white hair and the beard and the belly and everything. and i just. the amount of secondhand trans joy i experienced is truly insane. i’m gonna get old! i’m gonna get old the way i wanna get old! hey everybody you’re gonna get old; we’ve been doing it for years!

anyway shoutout to the santa claus of my cast and to every older trans person we love you so fucking much

#trans #queer #trans joy #ftm #theater #it was so fuckin cute #i wish you all could see this man

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

"Oh, Mary!"

THE WHITE ROSE: THE MUSICAL by Natalie Bruce and Brian Belding directed by Will Nunziata: Near the end of this true story (except for the singing) one of the students arrested for circulating flyers critical of the Third Reich during World War II says, “Art conquers hate.” By that point, all I could ask was, “But what if you hate the art?” You know those fictional bad musicals you see on TV shows or in movies about the theater? This is like them only it’s not supposed to be funny. It’s a worthy subject, and the talented cast performs it all quite earnestly. But it’s shallowly written, with repetitious musical numbers (power ballads in 4/4 and 3/4 seem to alternate) between sketchy dialog and following really clunky song cues. At one point, a sympathetic police captain (Sam Gravitte) confronts his former professor (Paolo Montalban) about why the teacher turned him in for questioning the Reich in his papers. Montalban says he did it for Gravitte’s own good. We switch to a scene on the other side of the stage, and come back to Gravitte’s saying “Now I understand why you did it.” Aroo!?!?! The lyrics are so simplistic they’re almost predicable. And some of the choreography is just laughably bad, often interrupting the contact the number would require between actors and audience or actors and each other. In two supporting roles, Laura Sky Herman gives one of the best performances. She makes her lengthy solo, “Stars,” one of the most bearable numbers in the show. As a sympathetic young police officer, Gravitte has the voice of an angel despite a sound system that rendered some of the voices tinny and at times inaudible.

#off-broadway #abraham lincoln #mary todd lincoln #cole escola #queer theater #conrad ricamora

[thequeereview]

All About My Mother - Theatre Review: The Seven Year Disappear (Pershing Square Signature Center, New York) ★★★1/2

Cynthia Nixon is magnificent in The New Group’s Off-Broadway world premiere production of Jordan Seavey’s intriguingly meta play The Seven Year Disappear running at The Pershing Square Signature Center through March 31st. Outside the Signature’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, there is an overview of the career of fictional mononymous performance artist Miriam (Nixon). The description does not…

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#cynthia nixon the seven year disappear review #gay #gay character #Gay theater #James Kleinmann #lgbt #lgbtq #LGBTQ chracters #lgbtq off-broadway #lgbtq theatre #new york theater 2024 #New York theatre #off-broadway 2024 #off-broadway theatre review the seven year disappear #queer #Queer characters #queer theater #queer theatre #review the seven year disappear by Jordan Seavey #The Queer Review #the seven year disappear #the seven year disappear pershing square signature center #the seven year disappear review #the seven year disappear taylor trensch #the seven year disappear theater review #the seven year disappear theatre review

[sawthemusical]

Don't miss us on Mondays going forward through March at The AMT Theater

Make sure to get your tickets for next week's Monday performance Feb 26! 🐷

#saw the musical #saw #musical theater #off broadway #adam stanheight #parody #saw franchise #lawrence gordon #lgbtq #lgbtq theater #horror #queer theater #parody musical #horror musical

[lover-praxis]

Shakespeare explores a binary by exploring a character who is not easily categorized within it, who moves between worlds, and who “steals men’s eyes and women’s souls amazeth.” Queer artists are often drawn to Shakespeare’s plays as a playground where they may embody characters who resonate more fully than many of those in the American theatre canon. Shakespeare best serves the queer and trans community when we lean in to breaking expectations. 

...

If Gender is the instrument, and our character’s experiences, values and expectations are the notes, then we see that the possibilities for performing gender, both on and off-stage, are an infinite symphony. 

from Abby Weissman and Leo Mock, "'What I Am and What I Would: Shakespeare and Non-Binary Imagination"

#currently reading #shakespeare #theater #queer theater #aka my passion #shakespeare inspired my love of directing

[rumble-bee-art]

What do you mean role playing, Mobius? We’re simply abiding local wardrobe traditions, everything else is simply a coincidence (including the choice of the hats)

#lokius #loki #mobius #mobius m mobius #loki series #loki season 2 #loki x mobius #loki fanart #lokius fanart #my art #artist on tumblr #they are on a mission and Loki really takes it to heart to be as aesthetic as possible #I think as a theater queer themselves Loki would appreciate Sherlock Holmes greatly

[disease]

THE COCKETTES @ VICE PALACE [1972] ft. BILLY ORCHID, DIVINE, SCRUMBLY KOLDEWYN, PRISTINE CONDITION, PAM TENT, MINK STOLE, DAVID BAKER (JR.) | PHOTO: CLAY GERDES

#the cockettes #queer #performance art #70s #avant garde #theater #san francisco #black and white #monochrome #contemporary art #dreamlanders #clay gerdes #u

[relyonriley]

Free queer streaming play inspired by Scooby Doo‽

I work at a theater company, and we just recently produced a show called The Interrobangers. It's very queer/trans and heavily inspired by Scooby Doo (as well as other shows like Stranger Things and The X-Files). The show is available to watch online for free through Friday, March 15. It's very campy and has a really fun dog puppet. You can learn more and get access at https://companyone.org/the-interrobangers/ :)

Something’s lurking deep in the woods of Foggy Bluffs. And as usual, it’s up to four groovy teens and a dog to get to the bottom of it. But in order to solve the mystery, the old friends must delve into their chilling past and uncover their town’s darkest secrets. M Sloth Levine puts a thrilling new spin on a classic tale with The Interrobangers, a queer coming-of-age story about exploring identity, creating community, and finding that men in masks are the scariest monsters of all. And they might have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for these meddling kids!

#queer #non-binary #scooby doo #gay #theater #theatre #play #transgender