Reviews
The Danish Girl is Brillant!
The Danish Girl was an elegant piece of work. This film captures nuances of being transgender in ways that no film before has. The…
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Reviews of how we get portrayed, and of the performers who did the portraying on their own terms. Film and theatre sit here alongside cabaret and drag — Transamerica and The Danish Girl next to Lypsinka, Kiki & Herb and Wigstock.
The Danish Girl was an elegant piece of work. This film captures nuances of being transgender in ways that no film before has. The…
If you’re a fan of Judy Garland, then you know her work way beyond the rainbow. The role of Dorothy might have made her…
Breakfast on Pluto is based on the McCabe novel The Butcher Boy. It’s the story of Patrick Brady, a young man who is astutely…
Judy and Barbra Live is the show for you if you enjoy the songs of Streisand and Garland, with a little humor on the…
Late one night in the spring of ’84, a drunken group of friends, seeking more diversions, closed the Pyramid Club and traipsed over to…
“Herb wasn’t just retarded, he was a gay jew-tard”, she explains, “in an era before it was trendy.” Downtown at the Cherry Lane Theater…
The short story (1st edition) by Brianna Nicole Austin, An Unexpected Turn, was released on Amazon in 2020 and was ranked ? #293 on…
7 Transgender Musicians have been making waves in the music industry over the past few years, and in this article I’ve spotlighted them. When…
The day the world changed was captured in Hit The Wall. But it was about more than the igniting spark of the famous Stonewall…
Film, theatre, cabaret and drag performance that deals with transgender and queer lives — both mainstream pictures like Transamerica and Breakfast on Pluto, and the stage work that rarely gets reviewed anywhere else.
No. I care most about whether a portrayal is honest, and I say so when it is not. A film can be beautifully made and still get us wrong.
I think so. Several document performances and venues that no longer exist, which makes them a record as much as a review.
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