Reviews
Transamerica
Can a road trip movie with a transgender character rise above expectations? Transamerica is the story of a post-operative transsexual named Sabrina (Bree) Claire…
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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.
Can a road trip movie with a transgender character rise above expectations? Transamerica is the story of a post-operative transsexual named Sabrina (Bree) Claire…
Eddie Izzard is Sexie! The sounds of Tom Jones are pumping through the City Center Theater in New York City as graphic images appear…
Pomp and circumstance were on full display at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square on March 27, as the New York chapter of…
As I Lay Lypsinking is a bit of Lights, Playback, Attitude! The art of lip-syncing has been around since… well, longer than me, and some…
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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