First ladies, freaky fellas: The Lavender Tube on presidential wives and Tucker's tired testes
First ladies, freaky fellas: The Lavender Tube on presidential wives and Tucker's tired testes

'The First Lady' features a trio of stars, Tucker Carlson's bizarrely homoerotic trailer, 'Law & Order: Organized Crime's lesbian cop played by Danielle Moné Truitt, plus more gossip and upcoming shows of note are all in this week's TV column.

by Victoria A. Brownworth | Apr 22, 2022

'Coming Soon' at Z Space: A Rousing, Arousing New Musical
'Coming Soon' at Z Space: A Rousing, Arousing New Musical

Musician-playwright Rachel Lark's stage musical, 'Coming Soon,' opens at Z Space this week, with sex on its mind, but it's more serious and less schticky than her previous tunes performed at Bawdy Storytelling.

by Jim Gladstone | Apr 19, 2022

'PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute' - Strong Medicine Needs More Regimen
'PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute' - Strong Medicine Needs More Regimen

The complexities of the generation gap between gay men who grew up in the AIDS epidemic and those who came-of-age with tenofovir pills are explored in 'PrEp Play, or Blue Parachute,' now in a world premiere at NCTC.

by Jim Gladstone | Apr 19, 2022

The Sisters' Easter @ Mission Dolores Park
The Sisters' Easter @ Mission Dolores Park

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's annual Easter celebrations returned to Mission Dolores Park on April 17 with a huge crowd of attendees enjoying the bright sunny day, performances, the Hunky Jesus, Foxy Mary and bonnet contests.

by photo by Steven Underhill | Apr 18, 2022

Scaring up Stravinsky: Simon Rattle Returns to the Three Ballets
Scaring up Stravinsky: Simon Rattle Returns to the Three Ballets

The London Symphony Orchestra's recording of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring,' conducted by Simon Rattle, reminds us what a still-stunning piece 'Le Sacre' is. Also, gay barihunk Stephane Degout sings Ravel.

by Tim Pfaff | Apr 19, 2022

SF Playhouse's 'Water By the Spoonful'
SF Playhouse's 'Water By the Spoonful'

Stories of intergenerational family drama, post-traumatic stress and the ravages of drug addiction are complexly interwoven in playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Water By The Spoonful,' now at SF Playhouse.

by Jim Gladstone | Apr 16, 2022

Toni Mirosevich's 'Spell Heaven'
Toni Mirosevich's 'Spell Heaven'

Toni Mirosevich's collection of linked stories, 'Spell Heaven,' tells of working-class fishing family and the author's own balance of that life and academia, a position she loves for the students and loathes for the politics.

by Miah Jeffra Milla | Apr 19, 2022

Betty Buckley Sings Sondheim
Betty Buckley Sings Sondheim

In a career that has lasted more than forty years, Betty Buckley has done it all. On her new album, 'Betty Buckley Sings Stephen Sondheim,' she celebrates the lyrics of one of the greatest songwriters in musical theater history.

by David-Elijah Nahmod | Apr 12, 2022

'Coming Out and Coming Home' - Gay Catholic Minister Head Pens Memoir
'Coming Out and Coming Home' - Gay Catholic Minister Head Pens Memoir

In his new memoir, "Coming Out and Coming Home," Stan JR Zerkowski writes about how he never intended to be a national spokesperson for LGBTQ Roman Catholics. But Zerkowski said that for us all, "There is a plan in the end" we can't necessarily control.

by John Ferrannini | Apr 12, 2022

Review: Women on the Verge - 'Fefu and Her Friends' at A.C.T.'s Strand
Review: Women on the Verge - 'Fefu and Her Friends' at A.C.T.'s Strand

Domineering den mother Fefu dispenses aphorisms like casually tossed grenades in 'Fefu and Her Friends,' Irene Maria Fornes' oblique psychosocial puzzle play, now being mounted in a luxe American Conservatory Theatre production at the Strand Theater.

by Jim Gladstone | Apr 12, 2022


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