The Woodlawn Theatre will be welcoming San Antonio’s LGBT community to a series of Pride Nights it will host during their 2018 season. The special evenings will offer Pride Night guests discounted tickets and pre-show socials with hors d’oeuvres, drink specials and live music, all followed by a performance of the theatre’s latest musical. A…
Sister Act is Woodlawn Theatre’s Latest Production
After a stellar presentation of Pippin back in February, the Woodlawn Theatre has unveiled its latest production, Sister Act, a “divine musical comedy.” Based on the 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Maggie Smith, the musical tells the story of disco diva Deloris Van Cartier (Rebekah Williams) who is put into protective custody at a convent after…
Meet The Juniors: Rising Drag Stars Harness the Power of Teamwork
I meet them as boys on an evening a week before Christmas, at Bakery Lorraine. Louie Canales, who performs as Chyna Cravens, and Christian Paolo, aka Sephwhora (pronounced Sef-whore-ah) 51, are waiting for me at a table near the entrance. The third member of the drag queen girl group known as The Juniors is running…
Woodlawn Theatre Presents ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’
This holiday season the Woodlawn Theatre presents the biblical saga of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat directed by William McCrary and Michelle Pietre Originally presented as a twenty minute “pop cantata” in 1968 for a private boy’s school performance, the musical would go on to become a popular production on Broadway. With music and…
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Star Latrice Royale Leads Greg Hinojosa’s Latest ‘Rocky Horror’ Remix
Decades before the dawn of RuPaul’s Drag Race, British playwright Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show challenged the status quo and championed a similar message of self-acceptance. Both the Logo reality series and the 1973 musical transcended their early cult status to become icons of pop culture. In 2012, director Greg Hinojosa, then with the…
‘Memphis’ in Full Swing at the Woodlawn
Set amid racial tension in 1950s-era Tennessee, Memphis follows the story of Huey Calhoun, a white high-school-dropout-turned-radio-DJ (played here by Brian Hodges) who falls in love with Felicia Farrell, a black R&B singer (played by Marie Warren Bunch). After seeing Felicia perform at Delray’s, an underground nightclub, Huey’s determined to make Felicia a star by spinning her record on…
Greg Hinojosa to leave Woodlawn Theatre
The artistic director of the Woodlawn Theatre announced on December 21 that he is leaving the theater and has retained a new postion. Greg Hinojosa has been artistic director of the Woodlawn Theatre for the past three and a half years. Today, he posted an announcement on Facebook saying, “Change is always difficult, but change…
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,…
‘Drag Race’ starlets headline ‘Rocky Horror’ at Woodlawn
Three cast members from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” will be in San Antonio this month to headline the Woodlawn Theater’s annual production of “The Rocky Horror Show.” The iconic rock musical, which opens at the Woodlawn on October 16, stars Bianca Del Rio as Magenta, Adore Delano as Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Michelle Visage as Riff Raff.…