Dixon Place Announces Opening Night Event

The Dixon Place HOT! Festival is the longest - running LGBTQ Arts Festival in the world. Since 1992, HOT ! continues to be a trailblazing pioneer in queer Arts and Culture. The opening night performance and party offers a taste of festival fare by presenting tantalizing selections from the pick of the upcoming festival programme.

TADEUSZ VON MOLTKE (NBC's THE BLACKLIST; DJ Khaled/Jay Z's video I GOT THE KEYS ; THEA MUSGRAVE 90th BIRTHDAY CONCCERT ; SAMSUNG/PUNCHDRUNK virtual reality project) will offer a seductive preview of his erotically infused novella/solo performance piece THE HOLLYWOOD ADRIANA, A Cautionary Tale of Damaged Good, prior to his July 13 debut at the HOT ! Festival proper with a 40 - minute rendition of the piece.

THE HOLLYWOOD ADRIANA, A Cautionary Tale of Damaged Good is a fever - pitch hallucinogenic tragic - comedy. In this surreal contemporary story inspired by the tragic death of Silent Movie icon Ramon Novarro, a kaleidoscope of styles - classic prose, screenplay, poetry, opera libretto, and song - drive the narrative and develop character as the protagonist encounters Sarah Bernhardt, Ramon Novarro, Hector Berl ioz, hustlers, drag queens, athletes, and altar boys.

An artistic incubator since 1986, DIXON PLACE is a Bessie and Obie Award - winning non - profit institution, a leader in the field, committed to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theatre, dance, music, puppetry, circus arts, literature, and visual art, at all stages of development.