Now in its 21st year, Hell in a Handbag Productions has a ridiculously hilarious new show playing at the Center on Halsted in their The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes series subtitled The Obligatory Holiday Special. With the holidays looming, December is a time to see happy, funny shows, and Golden Girls does not disappoint. […]
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Flying feathers
There are a lot of substantive and weighty criticisms to be levied at the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise and its global juggernaut influence over drag culture. Then there are petty ones, like mine: the series sucks at showcasing scripted camp. Nothing hushes even the most raucous, shoulder-to-shoulder packed bar viewing parties quite like the competition’s […]
Joan-sing for the holidays
Hell in a Handbag Productions’ campy spoof of A Christmas Carol replaces miserly moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge with hard-hearted Hollywood icon Joan Crawford, played by author (and Hell in a Handbag artistic director) David Cerda. In Cerda’s reworking of Charles Dickens’s behavior-modification fable, Joan—a tyrannical, tough-as-nails diva who abuses everyone around her, including her loyal personal […]
Yule be home for Christmas with Manual Cinema and Hell in a Handbag
A Dickens chestnut and a spoof of 1970s celebrity specials join the online holiday theater lineup.
The Christmas Foundling mines Bret Harte for holiday inspiration
The unconventional family structures of 19th-century mining camps widen the lens for LGBTQ history.
The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes presents a special Valentine Edition
Sophia, Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy find love.