"Don't Say Gay" laws and drag bans are threatening high school theater programs across the country.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/high-school-musicals-are-being-canceled-over-lgbtq-themes/
The play has 8 actors playing 20 roles. Some actors play cross-gender roles. This got the trip canceled.
From "West Side Story" to "Sweeney Todd" and everything in between, the public searches hopelessly for words that encapsulate the incomparable creative.
"The Scottsboro Boys" examines a case of racial injustice still relevant in today's America, where Black Lives Matter fights for rights and Donald Trump plays on racial fears.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/11/scottsboro-boys-plays-minstrelsy-deliver-dignity-justice/
The tender domestic comedy by Peter Parnell is all about the joys and trials of being a gay father in contemporary New York City.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/11/review-dada-woof-papa-hot-is-a-tender-well-acted-play/
The acid-tongued stage gossip has written a book about Broadway's history and he's not opinionated or snarky at all. There's no Michael Riedel.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/10/theater-gossip-michael-riedel-writes-a-history-of-broadway/
Matt Baume pays homage to a prissy parade of characters who've gleefully pirouetted through countless film classics.
It seems like every summer there's a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but Nick Cearley feels the one he's starring in nicely compliments LGBT pride month.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/06/nick-cearley-on-playing-puck-lgbt-pride-month-the-skivvies/
The poignant and groundbreaking coming-of-age show "Fun Home" was named best musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday, one of five big trophies it won on the way to making history for its composing t...
Joel Grey reached the heights of stage and screen, was married for 24 years and raised two children, but for decades, he kept one aspect of himself decidedly out of the spotlight. Now, at 82, the...
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/01/broadway-legend-oscar-winner-joel-grey-comes-out-at-age-82/
Earlier this summer, a northern Pennsylvania high school announced it was canceling a production of the musical Monty Python’s Spamalot next spring because it included a same-sex wedding. Despi...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Gay actors shouldn't have a monopoly on gay roles, award-winning stage and screen actor Nathan Lane said. Lane, who is gay and has played both straight and gay characters...
NEW YORK -- Kyle Taylor Parker is going from backup dancer to leading man - but staying in 6-inch heels. The performer who has been in "Kinky Boots" since it made its debut in Chicago in 2012 wil...
NEW YORK -- Terrence McNally's "Mothers and Sons" is the first victim of the Tony Awards: It will close on June 22 after missing out on being crowned the season's best play. The play, which had m...
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/06/terrence-mcnallys-broadway-play-mothers-and-sons-to-close/
NEW YORK — The lethal romp "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" got a lot of love at Sunday night's Tony Awards, nabbing the best new musical trophy on a night that also saw Audra McDonald ...
NEW YORK -- "The Nance" starring Nathan Lane has already been on Broadway. Now get ready for its appearance on movie screens and TV. A recording of Douglas Carter Beane's play will be broadcast t...
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/05/nathan-lane-the-nance-to-be-broadcast-on-movie-screens-and-pbs/
NEW YORK -- Neil Patrick Harris, Sting, Idina Menzel, Alan Cumming and Sutton Foster — as well as the teaming up of Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Fantasia — will perform at the Tony Awards...
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/05/neil-patrick-harris-alan-cumming-to-perform-at-tony-awards/
NEW YORK — The musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a comedic romp in which a poor man eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," a cult ...
Now that he's wrapped the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," Neil Patrick Harris is back on Broadway starring in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/04/neil-patrick-harris-gets-outrageous-in-his-new-role-in-hedwig/
NEW YORK -- It's obvious from the first moments of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" that star Neil Patrick Harris is doing something special. And it's not just trying on a new role.
NEW YORK — Terrence McNally's new play opens with a woman of a certain age wearing a lush, black fur coat. It's a provocatively politically incorrect garment — and a giveaway that what will c...
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/03/broadway-terrence-mcnallys-mothers-and-sons-gentle-moving/
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Neil Patrick Harris, dressed in a wig, lingerie and red heels, took the stage at Harvard University on Friday to accept the 2014 Man of the Year Award from America's oldest u...
OXFORD, Miss. -- An audience consisting of mostly University of Mississippi students, including an estimated 20 Ole Miss football players, disrupted the University's theater department production...
Edward Albee is a celebrated playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes and three Tony Awards. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” his first Broadway play, helped establish Albee as one of Ame...
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/10/lgbt-history-month-profile-playwright-edward-albee/
NEW YORK — Fresh off his success with "Kinky Boots," Harvey Fierstein will be offering his first play in almost 30 years — and there's plenty of kink.