Classical Guitarist Sean Shibe writes in the liner notes of his album ‘Vesper’ that he sought “ to explore the…
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.
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,…
Wil Haygood’s ‘War Within a War’ covers the many injustices that confronted Black soldiers fighting to keep Vietnamese people free…
In 2024 composer-pianist Michael Stephen Brown was in residency at Yaddo, the artist retreat in Saratoga NY. He was among…
The origins of queer hate is investigated in Harry Tanner’s history ‘The Queer Thing About Sin’ in a detailed analysis…
The rise and demise of the Weimar Republic is the subject of two startlingly timely books- Harald Jahner’s aptly titled …
On one the coldest days of autumn so far, a coterie of GLBTQ+A elders were warming up for their twice…
Susan Cheever’s ‘When All the Men Wore Hats’ is a moving portrait of her famous father and sequel (sort of)…
It is no surprise that Stephen Greenblatt’s biography of Christopher Marlowe is a shadowy portrait of a genius rogue playwright….