“I can’t really believe that just three years ago I was watching this show on Broadway, and now here I am doing the national tour,” says rising musical comedy star Adam Kaplan of the journey he has traveled in the national tour of the Tony Award®-Winning Broadway...
David-Edward Hughes: Tell me ALL about you! Ok maybe not ALL but fill our readership in. Greg Brisendine: I’m 50 years old and my background in the arts is relatively new. About 15 years ago, a friend invited me to a Poetry Slam. I had never heard of performance...
Leslie Jordan’s so good he could even give an interview while chasing down his mother’s dog after it had secretly slipped the bonds of the condo Leslie had bought for his mother. Like he did with me.
Though once a staple of the American Musical theatre canon, the musically rich, lyrically lithe, and satirically sassy Finian’s Rainbow has all but vanished from the schedules of theatres, even those like the 5th Avenue that take pride in bringing back “lost musicals”...
You may not know the name Levi Hastings but, if you’ve picked up a copy of The Stranger, the Mercury, or City Arts magazine lately, you’ve probably seen his work.
I have a confession to make. I’ve always preferred erotica to porn. While I appreciate the voyeuristic nature of adult films, erotica can lead you down paths that are less realistic. Paths into territory that’s hard to portray on a screen. Genres you wouldn’t expect....
Harry Turpin is a performer, director, choreographer, and writer. He's performed regionally with ShowTunes!, the 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre as well as nationally. A resident of Seattle, Harry has been seen on stages across the country in the 30th Anniversary...
A 2006 Canadian musical, The Story of My Life, music and lyrics by Neil Bartram, which received a short Broadway run (5 performances in 2009), had an immensely well received reading last September as part of Tacoma Little Theatre’s Off the Shelf series. So much so...
The folks at Three Dollar Bill Cinema are fresh off of marking the 20th anniversary of the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, their annual celebration of queer film. For their 21st festival, they have a radical change in store: a new name.
Cover photo by Autumn De Wilde Most people first heard the music of Mary Lambert when she co-wrote and performed on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ track Same Love a few years ago. Most people saw her perform for the first time on the 56th Grammy Awards in 2014, in a...
It's telling that the Oscars, the system Hollywood has devised to honor their own has, for the second year in a row, thrown diversity completely out the window. What does it say about your system, Hollywood, when the only person of color on your award stage is the...
As anyone who’s struggled with addiction knows, the process of hitting rock bottom, admitting there’s a problem, and ultimately journeying through recovery looks different for everyone. On Sam Lansky, Deputy Culture Editor at Time magazine and author of the just published memoir The Gilded Razor, being sober for seven plus years looks pretty damn good.