Colin Quinn is one of the better comics doing political satire – he communicates highly complicated ideas through the most mundane and absurdly funny examples. I thoroughly enjoyed his Broadway hit Long Story Short, which told the history of the world, brought wittily down to a comprehensible human scale.
Mark Nadler is one of the greatest showmen of our time, capable of leaping from floor to piano bench, tap-dancing madly, singing and keeping steady eye contact with the audience, all this while playing a complex passage on the piano without even glancing at the keys. However, in his latest, I’m A Stranger Here Myself, he takes a somewhat more low-key approach – the abundant theatrics and virtuosity are still there, but applied in a different way. Stranger was originally a cabaret show, but Mark has worked with director David Schweizer to craft it into an even more thoughtful multimedia theatre piece.
This is Douglas Carter Beane’s best play yet! In The Nance, he delves into a world that has long fascinated me, the world of effeminate gays as characters in nightclub entertainment of the early 20th Century.
Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his country’s treatment of members of the Gay, Lesbian and Transgender community on Monday in Amsterdam as over 1,000 protesters met Putin with posters, balloons and loud club music. Some were even topless.
Even though we might have to wait until June for the Supreme Court’s decision on the gay marriage cases they heard this week, Time Magazine has declared “Gay Marriage Already Won” with two covers of same sex couples kissing.
