Prime Video Renews SMOTHERED For Season Season
The cast for Season 2 is Amanda Bearse (Bros & Married With Children), Jai Rodriguez (Bros & Queer Eye), Bobby Costanza (Friends), Aida Rodriguez (HBOMax Comedy Special: Fighting Words), Armand Fields (Queer As Folk), Debra Wilson (Mad TV & Star Wars Jedi), Krishna Smitha (Morning Show), Bryon Quiros (General Hospital), and more.
Shefik To Moderate LGBTQ+ Discussion With Bruce Cohen, Christopher Donaldson, Peppermint, And Kareem Ferguson
Out of over 5,000 festivals in the world, Hip Hop Film Festival founded by CR Capers — is the only festival to focus on writers, directors, and producers who grew up in the global culture of hip-hop. The world tour is well underway, after recently completing successful stops in South Africa, Italy, Kenya, and West Africa.
Queer + Art Presents I AM SEAGULL New Queer Play Inspired By Chekhov's The Seagull With LGBT+ Cast
Queer & Art Presents 'I AM SEAGULL' a new play with music is having it's first public workshop performance at acclaimed Celebration Theatre in Hollywood. This all-queer inspired new adaptation takes place in the not-so-distant future after the United States and Russia have joined forces to create a new fascist-communist country; where the government has deemed queer people as 'Unclassified' and sent to death camps. A response to the world's climate, performer/artist Frankie Kraft has adapted the classic play to be told through queer voices. The cast includes 'godfather of LGBTQ theatre' Michael Kearns, Toni Christopher (Ovation Nominee 'Rabbit Hole'), Nathan Mohebbi, Kareem Ferguson, Ryland Shelton, Ashley Diane Currie, Richardson Jones, Arne Gjelten, Kenton Chen, Tristan Scott Behrends, Jessie Jacobson, and Frankie Kraft. Written and Directed by Frankie Kraft. The story is told with original music from Ryland Shelton, Jessie Jacobson and Ivo Dimchev. As well as choreography by Bruno Isakovic and Arne Gjelten. 'I AM SEAGULL' is presented by Queer & Art-- a new multimedia platform specializing in Queer art. They produce podcast, films and now theatre. For more information visit: www.frankiekraft.com On instagram at @queerandart & @frankiekraft. Or email queerandart@gmail.com. Monday January 21 7:30 pm at Celebration Theatre in Hollywood. This is a benefit performance for Rainbow Railroad-- an organization that helps LGBT+ asylum seekers escape violence globally.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA Presents World Premiere of WATCHING O.J.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA continues with their WORLD PREMIERE of Click and drag to move Watching O.J. by David McMillan Continuing through Black History month February 5th - 28, 2016 Running at 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, and 2pm Sundays EST/LA is in the Atwater Village Theatre complex at 3269 Casitas Ave. LA, CA 90039 Tickets are $19.95 in advance at watchingoj.com or $25 at the door.
MLLE. GOD Inaugurates Atwater Village Theatre, Closes 3/6
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA's world premiere production of Mlle. God by Oscar-nominated writer Nicholas Kazan inaugurates the new Atwater Village Theatre and an adventurous joint season with Circle X Theatre Co. The six-week run closes March 6.
Ensemble Studio Theatre Presents MLLE. GOD, 1/28-3/6
Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA kicks off an adventurous joint season with Circle X Theatre Co. at the new Atwater Village Theatre. With Mlle. God, Oscar-nominated writer Nicholas Kazan reinvents Frank Wedekind's famous Lulu, creating an outrageous and muscular dark comedy, a paean to sex, art, and living in the millisecond. Annika Marks stars as the femme fatale who is the reflection of every man's desire. Rated 'R' - Not for the faint of trousers!
f ESTivity-LA Presents THE MANY MISTRESSES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, 11/12
A provocative, wild, unpredictable new play, The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King is a darkly humorous expose of a modern American family of mixed races and second wives set in a university town with all its attendant politics, both academic and racial. This smart theatrical tour de force presents characters who behave badly but never according to the usual stereotypes. Familiar talking points about race in America are turned on their head, and there is certainly no preaching to the converted. Prepare to have assumptions and expectations challenged in this daring new work by New York playwright, Andrew Dolan.
f ESTivity-LA Presents THE MANY MISTRESSES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, 11/12
A provocative, wild, unpredictable new play, The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King is a darkly humorous expose of a modern American family of mixed races and second wives set in a university town with all its attendant politics, both academic and racial. This smart theatrical tour de force presents characters who behave badly but never according to the usual stereotypes. Familiar talking points about race in America are turned on their head, and there is certainly no preaching to the converted. Prepare to have assumptions and expectations challenged in this daring new work by New York playwright, Andrew Dolan.
Colony's Free Man of Color Resonates
The true story of John Newton Templeton, the fourth African American to earn a college degree in the US, is beautifully and engagingly told in Charles Smith's play Free Man of Color, now onstage at the Colony Theatre. This is thought-provoking material at its finest with three outstanding performances, under Dan Bonnell's caring direction.