Tag Archives: theater

DC’s Gallaudet University is the latest school under attack for planning a performance of Terrance McNally’s Corpus Cristi. Last week an 8am private performance of the play was canceled at Tarleton University in Texas after death threats rained in from God’s gentle people. Fresh from their intimidation campaign in Texas, the red-caped Catholic loons known as the American Society for …

Chris Kanyon, the former WWE and WCW pro wrestler who was publicly out during part of his career, has committed suicide in his NYC apartment at the age of 40. Kanyon had overdosed on medication, with early reports indicating he had taken his own life after leaving a pill bottle and several notes close by. The gay star suffered from …

And the censors win. Last night Tarleton State University of Texas issued this brief press release: The four student-directed plays, including “Corpus Christi,” scheduled to be performed at Tarleton State University on Saturday, March 27, 2010, have been canceled this evening by the professor. The professor cited safety and security concerns for the students as well as the need to …

Merely moving the single performance of Terrance McNally’s Corpus Cristi to the ungodly (heh) hour of 8:00am wasn’t good enough for the censorious students of Tarleton State in Texas. Via Christian Newswire: Thousands of Catholic students and concerned parents are calling for the cancellation of a blasphemous play at Tarleton State University in Texas. The offensive production Corpus Christi portrays …

After receiving threats from the local Christian community, a college performance of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi has been moved to 8:00. In the morning. Security concerns prompted Tarleton State University to change the start time and limit the audience of a play in which Jesus is portrayed as gay. The production called “Corpus Christi” was to be performed, at the …

Yesterday I joined the Farmboyz, Little David, Eric Leven, Wayne Hoffman and his partner for a matinee of Loaded, a new play by Elliot Ramón Potts that ran for five shows at the NYC LGBT Center back in January and opened this weekend Off Broadway at the Lion Theater. I went in knowing nothing more than the show’s title, certainly …

A epilogue called The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, which gives voice to Matthew Shepard’s killer, opens nationwide on October 12th. A decade after “The Laramie Project” became a theatrical phenomenon, its creators are back with an epilogue highlighted by a riveting prison interview with the killer of gay college student Matthew Shepard — depicting him as candid but not …

Courtesy of Spin Cycle, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to A Boy And His Soul, a new play written and performed by Colman Domingo, recently of Passing Strange and LOGO’s Big Gay Sketch Show. Soul is in watching your parents sell the house you grew up in. In the kitchen rotary phone cord your sister stretched out …

Eartha Kitt, the bawdy, sexy, sultry performer whose name will forever live in the pantheon of gay icons, died today at 81. Actress and “Santa Baby” singer Eartha Kitt has died. Kitt, 81, died Thursday in New York City, her publicist confirmed to CNN, after being treated there for colon cancer. Her daughter Kitt Shapiro was by her side. Known …

Remember Scott Eckern, the musical theater artistic director who donated $1000 to Yes On 8 and caused a huge uproar? He’s resigned from his job for the “protection of the organization.” California Musical Theatre’s artistic director, Scott Eckern, resigned from his post today amid controversy over a donation he made to the Proposition 8 campaign to ban gay marriage. Eckern …