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- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 18, 2020
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The onstage season was short, but there was plenty of drama in 2020
Getting back to normal isn't going to happen. And in many ways, it shouldn't.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 19, 2020
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The founder of Pride Films and Plays is gone. What happened? What's next?
PFP's story contains lessons about board oversight and artist empowerment.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 17, 2020
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Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist is introspective and interactive
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit offers an illuminating look at casual hookups.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 25, 2020
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Dex & Abby goes to the dogs
Two gay men and their pooches try to build a life together in this tepid play.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 23, 2020
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Stop Kiss still feels (sadly) current
A brutal homophobic assault tests the love between two women in Diana Son's drama.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 17, 2019
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America's Best Outcast Toy is heartfelt and funny
Some familiar cast-offs get a chance to show off their reality-competition chops in this new musical.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 10, 2019
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The Christmas Foundling mines Bret Harte for holiday inspiration
The unconventional family structures of 19th-century mining camps widen the lens for LGBTQ history.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 16, 2019
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A closeted gay man finds love and community onstage in A Man of No Importance
Pride Films and Plays provides an emotionally engaging production of this set-in-Dublin musical.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 14, 2019
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All That He Was plucks the heartstrings
A musical about the darkest days of AIDS shows its student-effort roots, but provides a stirring score.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 24, 2019
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Now and Then loses its place in time
The stakes are too low in this musical about the life span of a gay relationship.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 3, 2019
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For a good time, come all over the dating satire Grindr the Opera
Pride Films and Plays' new musical gleefully skewers the modern gay-dating scene.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 12, 2019
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Desire in a Tinier House is a poetic queer love story—despite the shirtless-boy marketing
It envisions a queer domestic space we don't normally see onstage.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 24, 2019
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Buyer & Cellar explores Barbra Streisand’s (make-believe) basement shopping mall
It's only pain and darkness there.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 3, 2019
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Despite the legally mandated nudity, there’s no happily-ever-after in Afterglow
"No one ever wrote a fairy tale about polyamory!"
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 7, 2019
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A toast to a chosen family with a shot of Southern Comfort
The bluegrass musical centers trans love and queer joy.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 19, 2018
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Barney the Elf spreads campy Christmas cheer
It's one of the most polished Pride Films and Plays productions yet.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 29, 2018
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Here are 19 shows to get you into the holiday spirit
Christmas trains, elves, bingo, showgirls, and many, many carols, plus the Quranic perspective and Hanukkah goblins.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 25, 2018
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Pride Plays and Films’s It’s Only a Play lacks Broadway star power, but it’s still good fun
Terrence McNally's play is essentially a workplace hangout comedy.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 12, 2018
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Homos, or Everyone in America follows two thirtysomething Brooklynites from love to hate and back again
A five-year relationship full of endless debate
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 16, 2018
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The inconsequential first half of Holding the Man is as hard to swallow as its devastating conclusion
Tommy Murphy's adaptation of Australian author Timothy Conigrave's coming-of-age memoir fails to question the sociopolitical forces that led to the AIDS crisis.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 8, 2018
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Hurricane Damage dives into the wreck of the AIDS crisis
Even with a hunky handyman, there's no escape.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 11, 2018
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Fucking Men struggles with onstage intimacy realness
Instead, it settles for some bad fake interpretive-dance sex.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 18, 2018
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The Days Are Shorter, but this play feels longer
Its depiction of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown isn't as sympathetic as it should be.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 17, 2018
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Flies! The Musical! turns Lord of the Flies into a giddy musical frolic
And—spoiler alert—Piggy lives!
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 29, 2017
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A Dickens Carol, It's a Wonderful Life, and nine more new stage shows
A clever mashup of fact and fiction and a "radio show" version of the holiday classic are among this week's best bets.
