Arts & Culture
La Cage Aux Folles: Still timely (and fun) more than 30 years later
A drag queen and a gay club owner raise their son then face a crisis when the boy grows into a young man who wants to marry into a conservative politician’s family. It could be a story out of today’s headlines. However, it’s the basic plot line of the 32-year-old musical, La Cage Aux Folles,…
Gabriel Zertuche leads Ballet San Antonio into a new era
“It’s important, if we’re going to survive as an art form, that we start reaching out to a younger audience.” A decade ago, Gabriel Zertuche thought his dancing days were behind him. In 2005, he decided to move to San Antonio to live with friends. But within a year he began dancing for Ballet…
Living practice, Practice living
” … practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” “Squeeze your legs together like Gertrude and Alice!” exclaimed dance Professor Montoya, with a glimmer in his eye, laughing at his own clever innuendo. We were all clueless freshmen at SMU in that Martha Graham dance class, glancing at each other in our peripheral…
Gemini Ink explores the work of James Franco
Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, 78205 (210) 734-9673, geminiink.org Ongoing at Gemini Ink is “Poetry, Film, and James Franco,” a workshop led by San Antonio playwright and poet Gregg Barrios. It is the first course of its kind to examine the experimental films of James Franco and the works of poetry that inspired…
Robert Tobin and the fight for the Medical Center
“Here was a very dignified gay man, who, by today’s standards, never discussed his sexuality in any kind of open environment.” In Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, the composer’s Romanticism was both idealistic (infinite longing) and fatalistic (inevitable disappointment). The moral of the opera–“attempting to hold onto what we cannot keep causes hurt and is ultimately…
A View of Reality from a Chartreuse Couch*: Susan Yerkes
*My Own Private Alamo Gene: Hello, Susan. I am so delighted to have you visit the world-famous Chartreuse Couch, and we have a lot to talk about: San Antonio past, San Antonio future, Cornyation, UFOs and art. There is just a world of knowledge in your brain and we need to hear all of it.…
GLAAD TO KNOW YOU at the Overtime Theatre
Written by Chadd Green and Lee Hurtado. Directed by Morgan Clyde. Featuring Justin Bankston, Chris Kelly, Derek Berlin, Vicky Liendo, Jeremy Talamantez, Jenny Taylor, Michele Wisniewski, and Molly Walker. There’s enough energy to power half a dozen plays in the Overtime’s production of GLAAD to Know You by Chadd Green and Lee Hurtado. The story…