Sexy Torez & Company Make Fantasies Flesh at Joe Fiore’s Fetish Ball
Torez on the dance floor - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
New York City’s LGBT Community Center’s end-of-January Dance:208, produced by Joe Fiore, was the Fetish Ball, with sizzling hot Torez, dancing in a variety of fantasy outfits, Read more
Suzanne Vega at the Allen Room-American Song Book Deluxe
Suzanne Vega - photo by Mary Rozzi
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by Sherri Rase
Suzanne Vega is the consummate city dweller. She’s the woman you want to meet for coffee for her terse and pithy observations of the world and its players, as they shift and part around us, as we are boulders in the river of humanity that flows around us. And that humanity flowed as the evening began on January 28, as part of the American Songbook series, 2010 edition.
Vega has been playing with two equally talented musicians, and the work that she does with Gerry Leonard on guitar and Michael Visceglia on bass amounts to texture, sound, voice and skill, which elevates each to his or her most amazing. Accompanied by the Brooklyn-based String Quartet of Light and Sound, there were interplays of texture and an urban sound wall that complemented the urban sight wall behind Vega. Read more
Dan Via’s “Daddy” Offers Different Twist on Gay Daddy-Boy Fantasy
Gerald McCullouch & Dan Via- photo by Eduardo Placer
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Dan Via’s new play “Daddy,” which opens on January 31 and, under the auspices of DowntownTheatre Company, plays Wednesdays through Mondays, through February 13, at TBG Arts Center Mainstage Theatre, on West 36th Street, is so au courant that gay marriage, legal and figurative, Read more
John Philip Considers, in Forthcoming Play, “All That Might Happen” When a Gay Couple Would Have a Child: an Interview with Director Michael Portantiere
Michael Portantiere(rt) directs cast members in a rehearsal of' "All That Might Happen'' - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
When a gay or lesbian couple decides they want an offspring, other than by adopting, a surrogate mother or a sperm donor, anonymous or not, will likely be involved, there may or may not be artificial insemination, and there will surely be a legal contract, as complicated as any prenuptial agreement, Read more
Divine Diversion: a Las Vegas Vacation Diary
Ruth & Susan Freedner with Bette Midler poster - submitted by Susan Freedner
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By Susan Freedner
Following the close of our 2009 seasonal share on Fire Island, the first weekend in October, my identical twin Ruth and I overcame our procrastination tendencies and immediately planned and booked a trip to Las Vegas for the sole purpose of seeing Bette Midler. This was to be a long overdue and well-deserved vacation. Due to our obligations and Bette’s schedule the first opportunity would be in January 2010. Book it Dano-we used the Internet, a new phenomenon for Ruth, and arranged flights-Jet Blue, hotel-The Mirage, tickets for Bette Midler-”The Showgirl Must Go On,” at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace, as well as one of the eight Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil shows now playing in Vegas. Read more
Obama Mentions AIDS, Hate Crimes, & Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Late in 1st Presidential State of Union Address
President Barack Obama, backed by Vice-President Joseph Biden & Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On January 27, President Barack Obama gave an hour-and-10-minute State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, his first since he took office last year, in the House Chamber of the Capitol, in Washington, D.C. Read more
“Il Mondo della Luna”-Stairway to Heaven
"Il Mondo della Luna" (left to right) Nicholas Coppolo & Hanan Alattar - photo by Richard Termine
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by Sherri Rase
Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Il Mondo della Luna” (The World on the Moon) is Gotham’s latest production and it was stellar. The arguable luminary of the show was the Hayden Planetarium’s Zeiss Universarium projector, which made such beautiful star scapes in the early part of the ensnarement of our main character. When Universarium made its entrance, it was very 2001 (as in “Space Odyssey”). But let’s discuss the dramatis personae. The creative team that brought this dazzling production to pocket-sized life includes Neal Goren, the artistic director of Gotham Opera, who also conducted the chamber orchestra for the performances, and director Diane Paulus, whose vision was amazingly realized in ultimate minimalism. Video and Production Design reigned supreme in many ways, as Philip Bussmann demonstrated his genius for adding grace notes to Haydn’s baroque styles. Read more
Amelia/Maria & Her Tenors, Father & Lover, in Met “Boccanegra,” Starring Domingo
Adrianne Pieczonka, Placido Domingo & Marcello Giordani - photo by Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
When sopranos have moved down to mezzo-soprano and contralto roles late in their careers, as Régine Crespin (Mère Croissy in “Dialogues des Carmélites,” Madame Flora in “The Medium”), Astrid Varnay (Widow Begbick in “Mahagonny,” Herodias in “Salome”) Read more
Choose “Two Jews…” at Playwright’s Theatre
Zeblyan (John Pietrowski - seated) and Ishaq (Reathel Bean-standing) discuss how they will rewrite the Torah that the Taliban has stolen from them - photo by SuzAnne Barabas
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by Sherri Rase
“Two Jews Walk Into A War…” sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, and quite frankly it is. The bad joke is the central fact of this important new play by Seth Rozin. Playwright’s Theatre has mounted its first production of 2010 as part of a rolling world premiere that began in Manalapan, Florida, continued to Long Branch, New Jersey, and is presently in Madison, New Jersey, home to Playwright’s. The bad joke itself is that two of the last remaining Jews in Kabul, Afghanistan, are burying the third, who was their buffer. Ishaq (Reathel Bean) and Zeblyan (John Pietrowski) have no one between them to act as mediator, no one to give them their prayer schedule as they share the last synagogue standing in a war torn country that hates them. The two Jews didn’t walk in to the war: the war ran into them. Read more
Feydeau Always Had Paris, But in “Hotel Casablanca,” Pasatieri Gives Us Texas, Where ‘Everything Is Bigger’
(left to right) Molly Mustonen, Chad Armstrong, Sara Stewart & Ubaldo Feliciano-Hernández - Photo by Sarah Shatz
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
For its first production of the New Year, the Dicapo Opera Theatre romped through the New York premiere of Thomas Pasatieri’s frothy farce “The Hotel Casablanca” (2007), after Georges Feydeau’s play “La Puce à l’oreille” (A Flea in Her Ear, 1907), on January 22. Read more
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