Interview with Harvey Fierstein, by Michael Portantiere
A gay icon talks about his reconceived role of Uncle Winston in the new Broadway musical A Catered Affair, for which he wrote the book.
A gay icon talks about his reconceived role of Uncle Winston in the new Broadway musical A Catered Affair, for which he wrote the book.
It's an ironic tribute to Laurents the writer - and to Styne, Sondheim, and Robbins - that the work of Laurents the director cannot completely mask the greatness of Gypsy. But one can't help wonder how much better this production might have been with someone else at the helm.
Sometimes, you have to take a step "backwards" to move forward. That's the lesson of Broadway Backwards, the annual concert in which the men of Broadway sing songs traditionally sung by women, and vice versa. Here are photos of some of the highlights from this year's event, held on Monday.
The recent Broadway stagehands' strike briefly cast a pall over the Big Apple, but before that happened, there was lots of great theater going on in New York—much of it involving openl…
The Ritz is one of the gayest comedies ever written, even though most of the central characters happen to be straight. The Roundabout Theatre Company's current revival demonstrates further that this is Terrence McNally's masterpiece.
Nicholas Rodriguez is best known as Nick Chavez, the out-and-proud soap stud of ABC's One Life to Live. For his role in the first gay love triangle on American daytime TV, he was honored wit…
AfterElton.com interviews Spencer Liff about his Broadway career and his Emmy nomination for ''So You Think You Can Dance.''
First off, huge congratulations to Cheyenne Jackson and his boyfriend husband Monte Lapka, who just got married in a beach ceremony in the Hamptons. As Cheyenne tweeted, "It's official, afte…
Jon Stewart took on the Bachmann ex-gay B.S. last night on The Daily Show, and had a comedic meltdown with all of the easily-mined gold.
Claybourne Elder discusses playing a male hustler in Tennessee Williams' ''One Arm"; working with Stephen Sondheim on ''Road Show,'' and going shirtless as the Wolf in ''Into the Woods.''
One of the highlights of summer in New York is undoubtedly Broadway Bares, a raucous, steamy night when throngs of the sexiest bods on Broadway join together for their shared love of charity…
The Tony Awards this year kicked off with quite possibly the funniest (and, well, gayest) opening number for a mainstream awards show that I've ever seen. It left no doubt that self describe…
A little over two years ago, AfterElton.com brought readers a list of the 37 Hottest Guys in Theater, and since then, the New York Stage has only become increasingly sexified. The lines betw…