Eugene Dizon Archives - Chicago Reader

The cast of Mercury Theater Chicago's Priscilla Queen of the Desert stands in front of the prop tour bus. The three drag performers who are at the center of the show are in the center of the photograph wearing bright sleeveless jumpsuits and exaggerated wigs, striking poses. They are surrounded by "tourists" in shorts and camping shirts, taking their photographs.

Queens of the road

by Kerry Reid July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

In 1994, an Australian road comedy about three drag artists heading off in a beat-up tour bus across the Outback felt like a breath of fresh air in a cinematic landscape that tended to focus stories with “gay themes” on the tragedy of AIDS, and that still tended to view being trans as a punch […]

From left: Christopher Chase Carter, Shane Murray-Corcoran, Eugene Dizon, and L. Walter Stearns

Mercury Theater rises from the dead

by Kerry Reid April 15, 2021August 18, 2021

The Southport corridor venue gets new life and new leadership.

An engaging revival of Company explores the theme of marriage as partnership

by Albert Williams April 18, 2018August 18, 2021

No man, especially a 35-year-old bachelor, is an island.

Hair, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and six more new stage shows to see now

by Chicago Reader August 10, 2017August 18, 2021

“The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week’s best bets.