No Look Pass is an absorbing new documentary about Emily Tay. It shows the intersection of her traditionalist Burmese parents, her time on Harvard’s women’s basketball team and on a professional German team, women she [...]
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OUT Twin Cities Film Festival: ‘No Look Pass’ Unique Documentary On Lesbian Identity, Women’s Basketball, and Immigrant Experience
May 16, 2013 by John Townsend
Arts Spotlight: 469
May 16, 2013 by John Townsend
I Love To Eat: A Love Story With Food Through May 18 Illusion Theater, 528 Hennepin Av., Mpls. (612) 339-4944 www.illusiontheater.org Garry Geiken’s solo portrayal of legendary chef, James Beard, is a gentle low-key revelation [...]
OUT Twin Cities Film Festival: Teddy-Winning* Documentary at OUT TC Film Fest is a Harrowing View of Homophobia in Today’s Uganda
May 16, 2013 by John Townsend
Call Me Kuchu is perhaps the most harrowing documentary ever made about GLBT experience. Filmmakers Malika Zouhall-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright delve right into the homophobic hysteria that has swept Uganda in recent years in [...]
Style and Substance Combined in TRP’s Treasure Island
May 15, 2013 by John Townsend
Theatre in the Round Players is admired for its realistic productions of classic plays. But their Treasure Island is a less orthodox, though definitely admirable, departure from what one thinks of as a TRP production. [...]
Courageous, Captivating, & Heretical, ‘Fourplay’ Is A Beguiling Vision of Alternative Sexuality & Intimacy
May 15, 2013 by John Townsend
Director Kyle Henry brings us a beguiling set of four sex tales reflecting four remarkably varied sexual experiences. The films’ four segments will trigger judgements by even the very open-minded, which is one of the [...]
Quiche-eating Lesbians Sparkle and Shine
May 8, 2013 by John Townsend
Theater NOW is offering up a delicious little comedy at Intermedia Arts, but just know it’s vegetarian. Attending Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche has the feel of being given privileged entry into an inner sanctum [...]
E.B. Boatner’s Sweeping Trans Play Trilogy Reveals How Our Time Shapes Who We Are
May 2, 2013 by John Townsend
E.B. Boatner is the pen name for someone Lavender readers are long familiar with: Ethan Boatner, Editor Emeritus, whose A Word In Edgewise column still appears in every issue. However, in 2003, E.B.’s one act play, [...]
Arts Spotlight: 468
May 2, 2013 by John Townsend
Caritas Vocal Ensemble’s 2013 Concert Season: Give Good Gifts Sun., May 19 St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, 60 Kent St., St. Paul for St. Paul Area Council of Churches – Project Home Lake of [...]
Gross Indecency’ Courtroom Drama Illuminates the Dilemma of Oscar Wilde’s Bosie & Issues of Intergenerational Adult Love and Gay Masculinity
May 1, 2013 by John Townsend
Those who share in adult intergenerational love relationships are sometimes said to be involved in mutual exploitation, as if love between people of the same generation could not be exploitative. The young bisexual or gay [...]
Filmmaker Sally Potter Once Again Examines Sexuality With Depth And She Brings Us A Wonderful Gay Couple In ‘Ginger & Rosa’
April 25, 2013 by John Townsend
Filmmaker Sally Potter equals rich insight into matters sexual. The woman who gave us Orlando and Yes (which you should rent if you’ve never seen them) has a new remarkable film that penetrates the psychological effects of the [...]
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