Powered by Max Banner Ads  The Arts and New Albany Take Center Stage at the McCoy 2012 Center Stage Gala Gala Features Jazz Singer and Award-Winning Songwriter Anna Wilson By Mindy Hayward, Director of Marketing & Communications McCoy Center for the Arts, New Albany The McCoy Center for the Arts in New Albany is pleased to announce the 2012 Center Stage Gala, featuring jazz performer... 

The “Royale” Interview: RuPaul’s Drag Race Contestant Latrice Dishes on Drag Competition by Orie Givens She’s large and in charge, she’s chunky yet funky. RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4 contestant Latrice Royale is everything you see on TV and more. In a recent stop on her tour, Miss Latrice visited Columbus and performed for packed-to-the-wall crowds at Union and Axis. She worked... 

The Ohio State University Department of Theatre presents:  The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat  as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade By Peter Weiss Directed by Mark Mann   Program Note by Eve Nordyke, Dramaturg   In the 18th century, people with psychological disorders, neurological conditions, and disruptive social and... 

by Romeo San Vicente   GLEE AND TWILIGHT STARS LEAP TO WHITE FROG Somebody must have once given indie filmmaker Quentin Lee good business advice about keeping his overhead low and never giving up. Because while most of the world wasn’t looking, the gay director has racked up five well-regarded indie features, including The People I’ve Slept With, Drift and Shopping For Fangs, a couple of documentaries... 

Santa Maria Pirate Weekend by Mark Gist   On May 19 and 20, the Columbus Santa Maria replica will change from a 1490s ship to one from the 1690s, as pirates commandeer the vessel. More than 30 historical re-enactors are expected to come for the event providing demonstrations of how pirates really lived. There will be a battle both days at 2p when pirates attack the ship from open boats. Who were... 

Can-do Attitude by Erin McCalla   “We have become a disposable society,” Chuck West Carnahan says as he starts to explain his newest endeavor, Canned. Carnahan, an outlook design intern and community ally, has decided to embark on a two-part project that combines film, recycling and philanthropy. First, he plans on collecting 1 million aluminum cans, which will weigh a little over 16.5 tons.... 

Theater icon talks queer crushes, hubby’s gay tendency and her ‘Wicked’ nightmares by Chris Azzopardi   Idina Menzel doesn’t do anything halfway – even when she’s deciding on her gay faves. “It’s so silly,” says the homo-hearted theater queen, surfing Google for “hot gay male celebrities.” Her assistant even gets involved. “This is very important stuff,” Menzel giggles,... 

by Elizabeth Saltzgiver   Gypsy Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Jule Styne Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Suggested by memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee Original production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward Entire production originally directed & choreographed by Jerome Robbins April 25-29, May 3-5 (April 25 is a school matinee performance) Fritsche Theatre at Cowan Hall, 30 S. Grove St., Westerville If... 

by Erin McCalla “Mambo!” The Sharks and the Jets are rumbling and taking over the Ohio Theatre until April 22nd. West Side Story first debuted on Broadway in 1961 when Arthur Laurents readapted the Shakespearean story of Romeo and Juliet, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was revived in 1980 and most recently in 2009 with the contemporary... 

by Romeo San Vicente   Tom Hardy as gay rugby star. Yes, we buy it. It wasn’t bad news to hear that Mickey Rourke wanted to play Welsh gay rubgy star Gareth Thomas in a new film about the athlete’s 2009 professional coming out process, but it was, admittedly, odd news. After all, Rourke is in his late 50s and Thomas in his mid-30s. How would it work? And then came news that even Rourke wasn’t...