David T. Little’s opera ‘What Belongs to You’ opens with a lurching piano solo that cues up Lebanese-American tenor Karim…
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.
Peter Ackroyd’s biography of the raucous life of W.H. Auden, a scholar, playwright, polemicist, and consequential poet reflecting the complexities…
Barry Walters history of GLBTQ music post-Stonewall is a deep dive into a queer music diaspora and the artists who…
Joseph Osmundson is an out microbiologist and professor at NYU and author of ‘Virology’ which won the National Book Critics…
For her service in the US military as an Airman, Lauren Hough was booted out for being an out Lesbian….
Art historian Megan O’Grady examines what inspires artists to create artworks, and what is the artist’s intended impact on the…
Screenwriter Ryan O’Connell was a social media star before ‘influencer’ became a thing. His wry texts attracting followers by the…
Classical Guitarist Sean Shibe writes in the liner notes of his album ‘Vesper’ that he sought “ to explore the…
What would be the athletic and psychic pressure affect the first publicly Out gay male tennis player to compete at…
Stephen Sondheim was known for his furtive nature and as Daniel Okrent reveals in ‘Art Isn’t Easy’ the composer would…
“Ye cannae believe I don’t speak the Gaidhlip,eh?” jokes Ella, matriarch of a Scottish family in crisis and the quiet…
Andrew Durbin’s dual biography of photographer Peter Hujar and artist Paul Thek is a captivating portrait of two rebels with…
Former ballerina Gavin Larsen and photographer Gene Schievone have collaborated on a stunning dance book titled ‘Infinite Steps’ with photographs…
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died at age 89 in 2025. His massive literary output during his career included novels,…