The Pride

Week three of Gay-playapooloza brought us to the MCC Theatre production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride. This play, Campbell’s first, debuted in London in 2008 and won him the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the John Whiting Award for Best Play while the production itself won an Olivier Award. The awards [...]

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Yank! A WWII Love Story

Yank! A WWII Love Story, a musical that just opened at The York Theatre Company, was the excellent second installment of our Gay-playapooloza series. The musical has been in the works for a while, premiering in 2005 at the New York Musical Theatre Festival followed by a production in Brooklyn in 2007 and a San [...]

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The Temperamentals

We started our gay-playapooloza this afternoon with Jon Marans’ play The Temperamentals, which started previews on Thursday for its open-ended run at New World Stages. The show premiered in 2009 as a showcase production at the TBG Theater’s 40-seat Black Box Studio, and later extended into a full two-month run at the TBG’s 99-seat space. [...]

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Two Plays & A Musical: Coming Soon

We don’t often buy advanced tickets, but we hit some great deals on three gay-themed shows that we’re eager to see. Here’s what is on our itinerary.

On February 21 we see The Temperamentals. This show ran off Broadway to much critical acclaim in 2009 and is returning in another off Broadway engagement this month. “Temperamental” [...]

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A Single Man by Christoper Isherwood

The first movie I saw this year was A Single Man, based on Christoper Isherwood’s 1964 novel. The movie was stunning so I put the book on my reading list and I’m glad I did.
This is the first novel of Isherwood’s I’ve read. His Berlin Stories (which is a collection of two novels–1935’s The Last [...]

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St. Nacho’s by Z.A. Maxfield

This is another recommendation from Will, who proclaimed it to be one of his two favorite books from last year (the other being A Note in the Margin). St. Nacho’s by Z.A. Maxfield is a wonderful book that warms the heart.
Cooper’s been on the run from his past for three years when he finds himself [...]

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Admit One by Jenna Hilary Sinclair

“I was so tired of being my own fortress.” – Tom Smith
I picked up Admit One because of this line from its blurb: “Months later, while Tom serves as reluctant assistant director for his school’s production of Rent, he fears that the show’s same-sex love angle will somehow out him.” Of course the word Rent [...]

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The Riddle of the Sands by Geoffrey Knight

Last fall I read, and loved, the first in the Fathom’s Five series of books from Geoffrey Knight. The Cross of Sins was fun, sexy novel full of adventure and introduced us to Shane, Will, Luca, Eden and Jake who work for Professor Fathom on jobs that would make Indiana Jones proud. In The Riddle [...]

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A Note in the Margin by Isabelle Rowan

Will finished A Note in the Margin by Isabelle Rowan before I did and proclaimed it one of the best books ever. I am in complete agreement. Rowan created a well crafted romance with an unexpected character. The end result is a book with more layers than the typical book in the genre and a [...]

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What We Remember by Michael Thomas Ford

The latest from Michael Thomas Ford, What We Remember, was a great, meaty mystery. Now, I don’t read a lot of mystery so my idea of a meaty mystery and someone who read mysteries routinely may differ, but I enjoyed this book a lot.
The set up is simple, although it sets up the dark tone [...]

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