Gay broadway shows

We asked you to rank your fave LGBT pride-centric Broadway productions to celebrate the community that holds a special place in our hearts. Here’s the full list of LGBTQ+ musicals, sorted by time period. Contents: Pres LGBTQ+ Musicals. Of course the expression’s double meaning could be literal, as illustrated by recent coming-of-age shows in which the narrators are both gay and, well, artistic.

The theater shutdown of may have denied A Strange Loop the speedy Broadway transfer it deserved, but hopefully there will soon be space on the Great White Way for this challenging, exhilarating tour de force. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions.

Gay-themed Broadway musicals have come a long way in the past fifty years. Musical-theater auteur Michael R. Jackson turns himself inside out in this shatteringly honest metamusical about queer Black identity, which premiered Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

It’s here, it’s queer, get used to laughing yourself silly at it. Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city. From Tony Kushner's Angels in America, to Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop, to the bubbly jukebox musical & Juliet —below Playbill spotlights 25 shows that showcase the many aspects of queer.

We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Seriously. But it is only in the past fifty years or so that tuners have actually featured openly gay characters onstage—and the result has been some of the best Broadway shows of all time.

Looking for a musical that brings LGBTQ+ stories to life? Here are some of the best LGBTQIA+ shows that have graced the Broadway stages and left a mark for the ages. Here is our ranking of the very best. Running off Broadway now at the Orpheum Theatre, the show and its mostly queer cast and creative team puts a loud-and-proud, LGBTQ+ twist on classic musicals on Broadway and on screen.

Fight AIDS! More than two decades after it blasted onstage at the Hotel Riverview in Greenwich Village, Hedwig and the Angry Inch retains its electric currency. s LGBTQ+ Musicals. The first half, which premiered in as the one-act March of the Falsettos , is a jagged, yappy exploration of toxic masculinity; the extraordinary second half, written as Falsettoland in , concerns the more literal toxicity of HIV.

Finn rises to the challenge of the subject matter with a tremendously moving collection of songs: sparky, wrenching and sweetly romantic, with frequent enough twists of melody and phrase to resist the maudlin. While representation in film and television has been a struggle, especially after the passing of the Hays Code, theater has been an arena where the queer community has always shone.

We've limited the list to ten, which means that some very good shows did not quite make the cut. But her own life story resists easy lines. By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions.

s LGBTQ+ Musicals. Think again, my friend. Been there, done that? From journeys of self-discovery to the fight for equality, these shows celebrate the resilience, joy, and spirit of the queer community. A headlong blast of queer energy, Hedwig is the ultimate antibinary musical, dissolving boundaries—between male and female, cis and trans, rock and roll and musical theater—in a messy, cathartic and ultimately joyful public struggle with questions of acceptance, control and self-love.

Laughing is exactly what the new musical The Big Gay Jamboree is all about. Today, the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, seems an apt day for my annual census of gay characters on Broadway. At a time when LGBTQ rights,.

Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox. Thanks for subscribing! Adapted by Harvey Fierstein from a French stage comedy and film, La Cage depicts the lovingly tempestuous relationship between the manager and star of a Saint-Tropez nightclub that specializes in glitzy drag shows.

But there's an awful lot here to be proud of. Tuneful, touching, tacky and bedazzling, La Cage aux Folles is what it is, and what it is is a sensation.