TABLE READ
“That’s the GOAT”: Chase Sui Wonders on Making Theater and Meeting Martin Scorsese
April 16, 2025
After a table read of her new play, “Vermont, India,” the rising star joined us for a quick chat about live theater and working with the star-studded cast of “The Studio.”
BACKSTAGE
How Alastair Curtis Is Rescuing the Works of the Playwrights Lost to AIDS
February 27, 2025
“We shouldn’t look to Ryan Murphy to direct us to the next bit of forgotten queer history,” says the founder of The AIDS Plays Project. “We should have a compunction to go back and search for context.”
BACKSTAGE
“The Laughter Is a Trojan Horse”: Behind the Scenes of English With Tala Ashe
February 25, 2025
At the Todd Haimes Theater, the Iranian-American actor joined us to talk about bringing Sanaz Toossi’s play to Broadway in today’s charged political climate.
N.Y.C.
Do You Want to Be Famous?
February 11, 2025
The next gen of downtown performers make their red carpet debut.
SMOKE BREAK
“I’m a Jersey Girl”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Playwright Vogue Giambri
February 4, 2025
“I’m just a chaotic, spontaneous person,” says the downtown playwright of “I Can’t Make Sense,” her latest blackbox production. “This play doesn’t give you a second to be one thing.”
BACKSTAGE
Inside the New and Ambitious Revival of Oscar Hammerstein’s Show Boat
January 14, 2025
Before the opening of “Show/Boat: A River,” a bold reimagining of Hammerstein’s “Show Boat,” director David Herskovits joined us to discuss the show’s complicated legacy.
SMOKE BREAK
Fabio Cherstich Takes Mel Ottenberg Into the Annals of Gay Art History
December 23, 2024
After the last of his three performances at La MaMa, the opera director joined our editor-in-chief to talk about dedicating his life to the preservation of queer art.
BACKSTAGE
“Eyeliner Is Butch”: Casey Jane Ellison Takes Us Inside Her New One-Woman Show
December 4, 2024
On the eve of her new one-woman show in Los Angeles, the comedian joined Steven Phillips-Horst to discuss nudity, sisterhood, and the perils of feeling too cool.
BACKSTAGE
Tommy Dorfman Is Doing Double Duty in Broadway’s Romeo & Juliet Reboot
December 3, 2024
In the throes of her Broadway debut as both Tybalt and the Nurse in “Romeo & Juliet,” the actor called up her friend Gayle Rankin to talk vices, vapes, and pre-show rituals.
BACKSTAGE
“I’m the Long-Reigning Queen”: Behind the Scenes With Camp Icon Alina Troyano
November 20, 2024
Playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins sat down with his former teacher to reminisce on the downtown theater scene she helped create.
GAY
Cole Escola and Richard Perez Work Through Childhood Trauma in Wedding Gowns
November 14, 2024
The “Oh, Mary!” star joined their best friend and fellow comedian Richard Perez to talk marriage, stage fright, iced coffee, and what it’s like to live out your childhood dreams.
DATE NIGHT
“Shook, Gagged”: Jeremy O. Harris Takes the Girls of Katseye to See Sunset Boulevard
October 30, 2024
After seeing “Sunset Boulevard” and meeting Nicole Scherzinger backstage, the pop supergroup told us their dream roles and all-time favorite Broadway divas.
BACKSTAGE
Susan Kelechi Watson Takes Us Behind the Scenes of the Gentrification Drama Good Bones
October 22, 2024
The actress met us backstage at The Public Theater to discuss her heavy-hitting turn in James Ijames’ latest play, “Good Bones,” a drama of gentrification and community.
BROADWAY
“I Carry Myself Differently in Heels”: Nicole Scherzinger, by Lin-Manuel Miranda
October 18, 2024
This fall, the 46-year-old pop diva is taking Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard from the West End to Broadway, a role she’s been preparing for her whole life.
LIZA
“That Gracious, Exuberant Girl”: George Hamilton on a Lifetime of Liza Minnelli
October 17, 2024
The 85-year-old actor reflects on a lifetime of memories with our Fall 2024 cover star.
LIZA
“I Made My Own Lane”: A Rare Interview With Liza Minnelli
October 16, 2024
The showbiz legend tells her old chum Michael Feinstein about the trials and triumphs of life on center stage.
RORSCHACH TEST
Zane Phillips on Squats, Dick Pics, and Injectables
September 18, 2024
In this week’s Rorschach Test, the “Fire Island” actor and all-time hunk sounds off on influencers, throuples, Erewhon, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
BACKSTAGE
“I Always Felt Like Tinkerbell”: Kara Young Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Table 17
September 13, 2024
In this week’s installment of “Backstage,” the Tony Award-winner talks to us about starring in “Table 17,” a new romantic comedy written by playwright Douglas Lyons.
ICON
“Definitely a Diva”: Vanessa Williams by Trixie Mattel
September 9, 2024
For our September 2024 issue, the former Miss America calls up her music collaborator as she gets set to conquer London’s West End as the star of “The Devil Wears Prada.”
BACKSTAGE
Ariana Madix Tells Kristin Chenoweth About Her Big Year, From Love Island to Chicago
August 20, 2024
Before wrapping up her run as Roxie Hart on Broadway, the “Vanderpump Rules” star talked to Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth about learning to avoid the comments section.