Category: Performing Arts

Carolyn Gage | Take Stage! | Take Stage! is the first comprehensive ‘how-to’ book for lesbians wanting to produce or direct lesbian theatre. Controversial and anecdotal, ‘Take St

Diana Son | Stop Kiss | It doesn’t do this play justice to say that much of the action takes place in a hospital room around the bed of a comatose woman. On the other hand, i

William M. Hoffman | Gay Plays | Contents

Introduction / by William M. Hoffman — T-shirts / by Robert Patrick — Boy meets boy / by Bill Solly and Donald Ward — Confessions of a

Stacy Wolf | A Problem Like Maria | Subverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals

Claudia Allen | She’s Always Liked the Girls Best | Review

Claudia Allen is Playwright-in-Residence at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and winner of two Jefferson awards. She has written many pla

Robert A. Schanke | Shattered Applause | The first full-length biography of stage actress Eva Le Gallienne traces her life from her birth into the troubled but fascinating household of Richar

Jane Chambers | Last Summer At Bluefish Cove | Jane Chambers’ moving drama of female homosexuality can be appreciated by men and women, straight and gay alike, because it takes for its theme the un

Claude J. Summers | The Queer Encyclopedia Of Film And Television | From Hollywood films to TV soap operas, from Vegas extravaganzas to Broadway theater to haute couture, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 2

Ben Hodges | Out Plays | There is no question about the contribution of the GLBT community to the world of drama. In the twentieth century the closet doors were flung open and

Kaier Curtin | We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians | From Library Journal

Curtin focuses on the manner in which lesbian and gay characters were presented on the Broadway stage, with particular emphas