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Incoming Harvey Fierstein as the New Zaza

helenboyd — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:42:07 +0000

Harvey Fierstein takes over as the new Zaza in NYC’s La Cage production:

La Cage on Broadway

helenboyd — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:02:52 +0000

They’ve got cheap tickets & a sassy door girl: what more could you want?

Lady Painter & Hunger Striker

helenboyd — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:46:52 +0000

An old friend of mine wrote a cover article for the Times Literary Supplement about the first hunger striker, Marion Wallace-Dunlop. What interesting about his research is that it’s not about her alone, but about the way she understood media – in her case, at the time, painting – and its relationship to politics. He writes:

Wallace-Dunlop’s innovation was to create a kind of political theatre in a prison cell, its impact more dramatic than any she could have made on the image of women in art.

Very cool article about a very cool woman – whose life occupies a nice intersection of colonialism, feminism, suffrage, political strategy, art, and theatre.

Benefit Performance

helenboyd — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:28:39 +0000

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund and PFLAG New York City invite you to Christine Jorgensen Reveals: A very special benefit performance supporting the work of Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund and PFLAG New York City

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street (Between 9th and 10th Avenues)

Tickets are $40, and you can buy them here.

Coraline

helenboyd — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:41:48 +0000

Coraline – Neil Gaiman’s horrifying children’s story – is coming out on February 6th. It better be coming to a theatre near me.

Boulder: TRANSforming Gender 2008

helenboyd — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:47:40 +0000

TRANSforming Gender 2008, the third annual trans themed conference here at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is happening tomorrow, November 7th. (This is the conference me & Julia Serano & Matt Kailey & Dylan Scholinksi spoke at last year.)

This year’s lineup includes Monica Roberts (keynote speaker), Krista Scott-Dixon, Michelle Dumaresq, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Andrea Gibson, and Katastrophe. You can find the schedule below the break.

SCHEDULE
Friday, November 7, 2008

6:30PM – 7:30PM “Keynote Address,” Monica Roberts (UMC 457)
7:30PM – 9:00PM”Local Panel,” various local trans-identified speakers (UMC 457)

Saturday, November 8, 2008

9:00AM – 10:15AM “Trans101,” Katastrophe (UMC 457)
10:30AM – 11:45AM “Slam Poetry Workshop,” Andrea Gibson (UMC 457)
12:00PM – 12:45PM “Transfair,” information from multiple organizations in (UMC 417)
1:00PM – 2:45PM “Sports Panel,” Krista Scott-Dixon and Michelle Dumaresq (UMC 457)
3:00PM – 4:15PM “Artist/Activist Workshop,” Ryka Aoki De La Cruz (UMC 457)
4:30PM – 6:00PM Panel of speakers, various participants (UMC 457)
7:30PM – 9:30PM Performances: Ryka Aoki De La Cruz, Andrea Gibson, Katastrophe (Old Main Theatre)

All workshop sessions will be held in Room 457 (Dennis Small Cultural Center) of the University Memorial Center on the CU Boulder campus.The show on Saturday night will be held in the Old Main Theatre. For more information, please go to www.colorado.edu/glbtrc.

“Non-Essential Services”

helenboyd — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:20 +0000

A friend of ours works with a theatre out in IA that’s lost almost everything as a result of the recent floods, and like many others – they had no flood insurance. Worse yet, FEMA considers theatres “non essential services” and so they will receive no funding whatsoever to help them rebuild.

If you’re a theatre person, and you can help, you can contact them:

Riverside Theatre, 213 N. Gilbert St., Iowa City, IA 52245

(319) 338-7672

www.riversidetheatre.org

to see if you can make a donation, of money or stuff, to help them out. Right now they’re performing out of the local high school’s auditorium, as of course, the show must go on.

TRS

helenboyd — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:16:49 +0000

In case you’ve never heard of it, The Tranny Road Show is a traveling troupe of trans identified writers, performers, and musicians, organized by Jamez Terry and Kelly Shortandqueer.

The remaining dates of the 2008 Rocky Mountain Tour include:

the Gay and Lesbian Center in Colorado Springs (Tuesday 4/22),
University of Denver (Thursday 4/23),
University of Colorado at Boulder (Fri.day 4/25) and
Backroad Pizza in Santa Fe, NM (Saturday 4/26).

My students at Lawrence saw the TRS last year & loved it. http://www.trannyroadshow.com/ for more information.

10 Years Ago Today…

helenboyd — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:01:46 +0000

… I put on a dark green leather jacket and my favorite pair of trousers and, with a copy of The Sun Also Rises in my bookbag, I went to my friend Peter Dee’s apartment where he was hosting a monthly reading group I’d started with a friend a few years before.

Unbeknownst to me, Peter had invited this actor who’d been living upstate who’d recently moved to NY with the intention of working at a repertory theatre and exploring his gender stuff.

The rest, as they say, is history.

(Happy Anniversary, beautiful!)

CEO & Cinderella

helenboyd — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:42:00 +0000

Our friend Angela Madden is opening a play she wrote – and performs in – tonight at the Connelly Theatre. It’s called C.E.O. & Cinderella. We got to see it before I left for Wisconsin, and I’m glad I did. It’s interesting, it’s funny, and it’s moving.

It also only runs until February 19th, so do get tickets as soon as you can. It’s being presented by the theatre company Betty helped form a couple of years ago, and their website has all the info you need.

Angela, break a leg. We love you.