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The Trouble With Harry

Gay playwright Jon Marans tackles the Mattachine Society — with the help of Ugly Betty star Michael Urie — in his new play, The Temperamentals.

An Advocate.com exclusive posted May 1, 2009

Before Stonewall and Harvey Milk there was Harry Hay. Pulitzer-nominated gay playwright Jon Marans resurrects this fascinating figure and his daring cohorts in The Temperamentals, which opens May 4 at the [...]

Merce Keeps It Going

Nonagenarian Merce Cunningham still wows the crowd in Brooklyn with his latest show, Nearly Ninety.
An Advocate.com exclusive posted April 20, 2009

George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham are the two greatest choreographers of the 20th century — yet polar opposites in method, style, and relation to music. But Cunningham is still alive and making new dances in the 21st [...]