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Cher To Headline Sydney Mardi Gras
Fans Are Heading Down Under To Celebrate Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras With Pop Star Cher by Heather Cassell Gay icon Cher is set to headline the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras party March 3. U.S. fans can try and get tickets as an additional number go on sale Tuesday, January 16. […]
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Queer Comedy Show Will Benefit Sonoma School Destroyed By Fire
Quoting Oscar Wilde, he said, “Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
“Having comedians joking around and helping by making people laugh is completely appropriate and I’m eternally grateful,” he said, noting that it isn’t so much the money being raised, but “the feeling that people care.”
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‘An American In Paris’ Is A Stunning Theatrical Triumph
It was a magical evening from the moment the curtain rose revealing the art deco, cubism, modernism, postmodern images paired with jazzy rifts that took me to a place and time in history, post-World War II France.
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Sexy DJs Pump Up The Music At Breathless Sexy September
Labor Day might have come and gone, but summer isn’t over yet. There is still plenty of time to squeeze in a little bit more fun in the sun this September and Breathless Resorts & Spas is keeping the party going from the Caribbean to Cabo San Lucas.
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Women Take A Bite Out Of The Big Apple This Summer
It’s a girl’s world in New York this summer, at least on the stage and in the galleries and museums.
Broadway has gone to the girls with nearly 30 female-dominated and themed musicals and plays packed with girl star power: Glenn Close, Janeane Garofalo, Laura Linney, Laurie Metcalf, Elizabeth McGovern, Bette Midler, Cynthia Nixon, Lili Taylor, and Celia Weston.
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Melissa Etheridge’s Cuban Journey
It’s a dream come true for musician Melissa Etheridge. Later this month Melissa will journey to Havana, Cuba.
The mysterious and forbidden island nation in the Caribbean has intrigued the 55-year old artist since childhood, she tells the New York Times.
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The Dinah: Empowering, Raising Women’s Voices Through Art & Music
The world’s largest women’s music festival, The Dinah, hits Palm Springs, California at the end of Women’s History Month and promises to bring glass shattering all-girl entertainment.
The party that attracts more than 15,000 women to the California desert kicks off March 29 – April 2.
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Jewelle Gomez To Present New Play At New Works Festival At LezWrites! 2016
Author, Playwright, and Activist Jewelle Gomez [LINK] is thrilled to be co-curating the LezWrites! 2016 reading at this year’s fifth anniversary 3Girls Theatre Company’s New Works Festival Friday night.
Jewelle along with resident playwright Margery Kreitman will present 13 pieces – some solo and others with small casts – each piece being up to 10 minutes long to audience members August 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Thick House (1695 18th Street, 415-746-9238, thickhouse.org) in San Francisco, California.
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New Pro-Choice Generation Has A Stage To Voice Themselves
In a perfect world, women would have control of their bodies.
However, the war on women continues and has rebounded stronger than ever within recent years thanks to the U.S. House and Senate currently “under anti-choice control,” says Jennifer Roberts, co-founder and producer of ReproRights! Theater.
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A Stage Of Our Own
When you open up your Playbill how many plays are actually by women? The sad fact is that there is a dearth of women playwrights’ works being produced by mainstream American Theater Companies.
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New Works Festival Celebrates 5 Years
How would the story have been different if William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlow were women? Would their plays have made it to the stage? Would the world celebrate their works with reiterations of new interpretations of performances? Or would they have been forgotten with time, like Aphra Behn, before Virginia Woolf and feminist scholars resurrected her memory and plays?
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Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out
It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”
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