Category: Performing Arts

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Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film by Andrea Weiss

Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film | Andrea Weiss | A revelatory survey of lesbian identity in film–from the crossdressing stars like Garbo, Dietrich, and Hepburn to the vampire movies of the late ’60s

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Stages of Desire: Theatre from a Lesbian and Gay Perspective (Gay Studies) by Carl Miller

Stages of Desire: Theatre from a Lesbian and Gay Perspective (Gay Studies) | Carl Miller | This is the first book to chart the history of lesbian and gay representation on the stage from the beginnings of drama in English until the nineteent

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Fifty Key Figures In Queer U.S. Theatre by

Fifty Key Figures In Queer U.S. Theatre | | Whether creating Broadway musicals, experimental dramas or outrageous comedies, the performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profi

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Amazon All-Stars by Rosemary Keefe Curb

Rosemary Keefe Curb | Amazon All-Stars | Collects for the first time major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives spanning more than a generation of work in varied theatrical

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Lesbian Stages by Sarah Dreher

Sarah Dreher | Lesbian Stages | In “Alumnae News”, Karen and Stacey, students at a small New England college in the late 1950’s, have their ‘friendship’ destroyed by a jealous roomma

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Buffy Goes Dark by Lynne Y. Edwards

Lynne Y. Edwards | Buffy Goes Dark | ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim for its use of metaphor to explore the conflicts of growth, power, and transgression. The thirteen e

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The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus

Frank Marcus | The Killing of Sister George | Author Frank Marcus was once The Sunday Telegraph’s distinguished drama critic, and when he laid pen to paper for this play, he captured a powerful st

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Marmalade Me by Jill Johnston

Jill Johnston | Marmalade Me | It is quite possible that Jill Johnston is one of the most important, radical, and innocent writers of her time. This selection of her work written in

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Senior Citizen by B. L. Holmes

B. L. Holmes | Senior Citizen | Musical comedy about becoming old, ageism, society’s rejection of gays and lesbians.

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Gay and Lesbian Plays Today by Terry Helbing

Terry Helbing | Gay and Lesbian Plays Today | These plays by some of the finest playwrights working in theatre today share in common their view of gay and lesbian life in the eighties and nineties