Ahead of the release of her highly anticipated Cowboy Carter, the almighty Beyoncé said in a detailed statement about the album, “This ain’t a country album. This is a Beyoncé album"... and it certainly is. For some, that is good news and for a minority of others,...
A couple of things about this year’s Sundance Film Festival… First off, shout out to Eugene Hernandez on being thee man in charge. The newly minted Director and Head of Public Programming headed the 40th edition of the Park City fest. Secondly, this year’s fest...
The Mean Girls movie musical is out today and it is… fine. It’s been 20 years since the original; 6 years since the musical opened on Broadway; 22 years since Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes (the book on which it was based) was released; and 13 years...
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes specific details from Spring Awakening. You've been warned. Spring Awakening is one of my favorite musicals -- easily sits in my personal top 5 next to problematic fave Miss Saigon, the synth campiness of Phantom of the Opera,...
In the weeks, days, hours, minutes leading up to Beyoncé's September 23 concert in Houston, Texas, I made sure everyone knew I was going. I wore it like a badge of honor that said, "You can't fuck with me because I am going to the hometown stop of the RENAISSANCE...
When it was announced that Here Lies Love was making its Broadway debut, I went from celebratory to awkward to questioning to "Now wait a goddamn minute here..." all within 60 seconds. Part of me wanted to go to the premiere of Here Lies Love in New York to...
After watching Oppenheimer, I asked some friends, "Did we need that movie?" and it was a resounding "No" from the chorus. I agreed. I appreciate what Christopher Nolan's film did as a completed piece of cinematic work. It was remarkable to tell such a dense story...
Film festivals are fun. They are also a lot of work and wildly exhausting (listen to the episode of Problematic Fave with Valerie Complex to hear us talk all about film festival life). Surprisingly, I have never been to the Tribeca Film Festival. It was my first...
Earlier this year in April, I was attending CinemaCon. It was my first time at the trade show and event for the world of theater owners. It was a fascinating experience -- mainly because I spent almost a week in Las Vegas and that is five days too many. During the...
