Magic Color Clock from the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Americanization of the groundbreaking British series, Queer as Folk, has…
Lewis Whittington
Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist.
For years public television stations would dust off the great episodes of The Judy Garland Show from the early 60s…
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Cassandra Wilson continues to open up possibilities of what a jazz singer of her talent and vocal temperament can do….
The new 7-part BBC America series The Vice starts off looking like a Prime Suspect knock-off. With pounds of lurid…
If James Gavin’s biography Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker was fiction, it would have a…
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One of the most fertile partnerships in all of ballet wasn’t seen on stage, but was danced behind the scenes…
Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam (2002), David Kaufman Charles Ludlam was a man of the theater…
Last seen in the Hamptons attending the straight wedding of ex-gay cabaret entertainer Bobby Fine (Nathan Lane) and aging socialite…
There is a famous story about the making of the film adaptation of Tennessee William’s notorious Suddenly, Last Summer that…
Even though a nosebleed epidemic threatened or killed most of the characters in the closing episode of last season’s The…
There’s an old saying that goes "the dead can’t hurt you," but in the case of the new Showtime series…