Six Wives of Henry VIII Stan Jenson April 5, 2023 NOW, On Stage HAIRSPRAY: Okay, you wouldn’t be reading this column if you didn’t have at least a passing interest in musical theatre, and if you have a passing interest in musical theatre, you’ve almost certainly seen Hairsp... Read More...
Tom Goss Takes Us to Gay Church Kevin Perry March 1, 2023 Entertainment, Music, NOW, Palm Springs Like an outlaw hymn for him and him, love is rebellious and revelatory. It is a barn burning, earthshaking, all-consuming ascension into the queendom of gawd, and Tom Goss is its most passionate padre. Over ... Read More...
Mean Girls Take Over Southern California Alexander Rodriguez February 1, 2023 NOW, On Stage The Mean Girls musical is sweeping So Cal, first appearing in Los Angeles, it is in San Diego, then off to Orange County. Based on the Tina Fey movie, based on the popular nonfiction book Queen Bees and Wannabe... Read More...
From Dolly to Sondheim Stan Jenson February 1, 2023 NOW, On Stage 9 TO 5: A couple of long-time friends accosted me recently and said, “Why haven’t you written anything about Long Beach in a while?” They were correct, so here goes: Long Beach has a number of theatres of vario... Read More...
Obsessed with Bette Midler Alexander Rodriguez January 4, 2023 Entertainment, NOW “Diva” is the Latin word for a goddess. In modern times, it is used to refer to a celebrated woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, theatre, cinema, fashion, and popular music. So yes, putting Bette... Read More...
Five quirky nuns in NUNSENSE Stan Jenson January 4, 2023 Entertainment, Los Angeles, NOW, On Stage, Palm Springs MEAN GIRLS: The original national tour of Mean Girls, the new musical, was stopped by the Pandemic. Now it’s finally coming, and I couldn’t be more excited! Mean Girls is a ferociously funny new musical from an... Read More...
Harmony for the Holidays – The Music of Modern Men Kevin Perry December 1, 2022 Music, NOW, Palm Springs We waste endless amounts of time denying our desires, our vulnerabilities, and ourselves. When we grow old, we want to be younger; after we overindulge, we crave a slim, lithe figure; and during our formative y... Read More...
A Picture of Two Boys Stan Jenson November 21, 2022 NOW, On Stage MOULIN ROUGE: All right, already. This is probably the sixth time this year I have talked about this show plus we ran a terrific photo spread of it a couple of months ago. I’ll willingly confess tha... Read More...
Jackie Beat is Psycho Alexander Rodriguez November 21, 2022 Dragged OUT, Features, NOW Even though her Grindr age is just shy of 26 years old, Jackie Beat has been entertaining us for over 25 years. An international part of drag history, she is wildly known for her biting wit and camp (in its tru... Read More...
Jugglers, Acrobats, Aerialists, and a Wheel of Death Stan Jenson October 4, 2022 Entertainment, On Stage MAD APPLE: When Cirque du Soleil opens a new show it is quite an event because the show might play for decades. Their first Vegas production, Mystere, opened in 1993 and is still going strong(ish).&... Read More...
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