Cynthia Erivo – What Makes a Voice Legendary?
by joel martens Best known to U.S. audiences for her performance as Celie in the 2015 Broadway musical revival of The Color Purple, Cynthia Erivo took New York by storm, winning the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical as well as the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Her journey […]
SHUT UP! IT’S GREYSON CHANCE
PORTRAITS OF A YOUNG MAN ~ by joel martens ~ The world is as different as it can be, but when you get down to it, what makes us all human and connected, really has not. We are emotional beings who love, feel pain, have successes and suffer losses, eventualities that have forever driven writers […]
Todd Gloria & The EQCA Equality Awards: Striving For a Healthy, Just, and Fully-Equal World
~ by joel martens ~ Equality California (EQCA) is the nation’s largest statewide civil rights organization. Its nearly 800,000 members work to bring the voices of LGBTQ people and our allies into the institutions and power centers throughout California and across the United States. They do this by “electing pro-equality leaders, passing pro-equality legislation in […]
Recognizing Our Strengths at The Stonewall Humanitarian Awards
by tony reverditto – Fifty years ago to the month on June 28, 1969 there was a moment at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall bar in New York City that would change LGBTQ history. When the police raided the bar, Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans-woman, was present and resisted arrest by throwing a shot glass at […]
Murray Bartlett & Tales of The City: Michael Tolliver Lives Again!
~ by joel martens ~ Murray Bartlett went to acting school in Australia and successfully worked there for a number of years, though he felt restless. The industry there is small, so there’s not many opportunities and a lot of actors who want to work. In his 20’s Bartlett, like many of us, was asking […]
Brown & Out Fest V: Celebrating The Latinx Experience
by joel martens – What do the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, the 50th Anniversary of the passing of gay icon Judy Garland, and National LGBTQ Pride Month have in common you might ask? Well, for CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, each of these events represent a part of […]