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A Big, Black and Queer-Ass Broadway Show Is Closing, “A Strange Loop” Filled My Nerd Heart

It really is a “big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show,” and I’m heartbroken that it won’t get to play longer.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Oct 12, 2022

broadway

fun home

theater

“It Shoulda Been You” Is Heartwarming, Relevant To Your Interests

A little over halfway through, an unexpected twist sends the expected story careening off the rails. I don’t want to spoil it for you, so I’ll just tell you this:…

Laura Mandanas —

May 12, 2015

alison bechdel

fun home

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“Fun Home” the Musical is Messy, Hilarious, Nostalgic, and Totally Worth It

The Broadway version of Alison Bechdel’s classic graphic memoir made me feel weird, sad and fist-pumpingly excited.

Kaitlyn —

May 6, 2015

plays

rape culture

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“Post Traumatic Super Delightful” Uses Laughter To Talk About Campus Sexual Assault

“Hopefully because this dialogue is happening and we feel like we’re on the cusp of this conversation, people will understand how complex it is and how the survivor has no…

Hannah Hodson —

Feb 27, 2015

gender identity

people of color

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Upon Going Home: Review of “The Messiah Complex”

“The Messiah Complex is radical because it takes on concepts of beauty, class differences, gender roles, and navigates love and life in a trans or gender-nonconforming body, all within a…

Melanie Laura —

Jun 13, 2014

90s nostalgia

event

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NYC Play Lesbian Love Octagon Gets Six Thumbs Up From Three Of Us, All The Thumbs

This one time Gabby, Ali and Vanessa all went to The Lesbian Love Octagon, in New York City and then we all got together at a bar and, over Red…

A.E. Osworth —

Jun 17, 2013

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‘Sontag: Reborn’ Is Really Queer and Really Good

The stories told through this play are a fascinating insight into Susan Sontag’s life, as well as queer history. If you are in New York it is definitely worth checking…

JuliaOA —

Jun 4, 2013

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Really Powerful Theater: ‘Sans Merci’ Is Messy, Human, Incredible

This play kicks the living crap out of you while asking you to acknowledge the softest, sweetest, most vulnerable human parts of this world, and then it kicks you some…

Vanessa —

May 2, 2013

Daily Fix

event

comedy

Critical of Mass: My Long, Strange Evening at a Lesbian Rock-Musical

“I could almost hear them thinking, “Is this really happening?” I know this because at some point, I started watching the audience to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating.”

A.E. Osworth —

Apr 26, 2013

Daily Fix

event

theater

The Femme Show Effectively Showed, Told About Femme Visibility

“This slightly labelphobic queer went into The Femme Show full of unaddressed preconceived notions about the word, and left with a brand new appreciation for it.”

Cara —

Oct 1, 2012

broadway

musicals

pop culture fix

Intern Camp: HAIR Revival, Greener Pastures & “Schoolboy to Showgirl”

Greener Pastures, The Alexandra Billings Story, and the HAIR revival on Broadway!

X —

Jul 26, 2009

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A Big, Black and Queer-Ass Broadway Show Is Closing, “A Strange Loop” Filled My Nerd Heart

“It Shoulda Been You” Is Heartwarming, Relevant To Your Interests

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“Post Traumatic Super Delightful” Uses Laughter To Talk About Campus Sexual Assault

Upon Going Home: Review of “The Messiah Complex”

NYC Play Lesbian Love Octagon Gets Six Thumbs Up From Three Of Us, All The Thumbs

‘Sontag: Reborn’ Is Really Queer and Really Good

Really Powerful Theater: ‘Sans Merci’ Is Messy, Human, Incredible

Critical of Mass: My Long, Strange Evening at a Lesbian Rock-Musical

The Femme Show Effectively Showed, Told About Femme Visibility