Month: November 2010

Since 1981, HIV and AIDS have claimed more than 25 million lives, with HIV infections continuing to increase at alarming rates. In Houston alone, a new HIV infection occurs every…

"I have always looked at The Normal Heart as a play about a war!” director Joe Watts says of the drama that Theatre New West presents as a staged reading…

During his 15 years as a Broadway performer, directing a spectacle such as Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría “was exactly what I had been working towards,” says Tim Smith, the openly…

In many ways, I’m an old-fashioned, traditional gal. I like my poetry rhyming, my opera Italian, and my Gaga tartar. Likewise, there are a few set traditions in my household…

As the month begins, we are still moving slowly with our social and financial commitments. Things are moving more rapidly in the area of personal relationships. Life may continue to…

In gay cinema subculture, drag queens have received the lion’s share of screen time. Documentaries like Paris Is Burning or comedies such as Priscilla: Queen of The Desert have skewed…

Chastity Bono told OutSmart that at 13, seeing the movie Personal Best, “all the bells and whistles went off in my head.” “It’s amazing that a movie can do that,”…

Liza Minnelli, 64, is the Energizer Bunny of show biz. As long as they can keep replacing her failing parts (e.g., hips and knees), she’s going to keep on going.

Tonight I boarded LuPone’s trip down memory lane, including “inEVITAble” backstage stories surrounding her award-winning roles as Eva Peron and Mama Rose

Born in Santiago, Chile, Guillermo Reyes was a third-generation el hijo natural, a child “of nature” whose parents weren’t married.