Tag: Alan Cumming
New York Pride Days 1-2: Alan Cumming, Neil Patrick Harris, synchronized swimming
Free people from all over the world descended on New York City for the first-ever WorldPride celebration to be held in the U.S. marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
Here’s how our 30-something New York-based writer John Russell survived the magic and mayhem.
Press check-in for the WorldPride Opening Ceremony at Barclays Center goes pretty smoothly, though there’s no place on the “Rainbow carpet” for me. Which is fine because the battery on my phone is about to...
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris is “the queer black savior the theater world needs”
Jeremy O. Harris
Playwright and actor
In December 2018, Harris’ play “Slave Play” debuted at the New York Theatre Workshop, where it received rave reviews. The play explores themes of race, sex, and sexuality on a slave plantation in the Antebellum South.
Also in 2018, he won the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and the Lotos Foundation Prize, and he was deemed by Out magazine “the queer black savior the theater world needs.”
Then...
