Pride Film Fest showcases LGBTQ+ shorts and features a diverse mix of riveting stories told across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
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The onstage season was short, but there was plenty of drama in 2020
Getting back to normal isn’t going to happen. And in many ways, it shouldn’t.
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The founder of Pride Films and Plays is gone. What happened? What’s next?
PFP’s story contains lessons about board oversight and artist empowerment.
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Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist is introspective and interactive
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit offers an illuminating look at casual hookups.
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Dex & Abby goes to the dogs
Two gay men and their pooches try to build a life together in this tepid play.
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Stop Kiss still feels (sadly) current
A brutal homophobic assault tests the love between two women in Diana Son’s drama.
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America’s Best Outcast Toy is heartfelt and funny
Some familiar cast-offs get a chance to show off their reality-competition chops in this new musical.
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The Christmas Foundling mines Bret Harte for holiday inspiration
The unconventional family structures of 19th-century mining camps widen the lens for LGBTQ history.
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A closeted gay man finds love and community onstage in A Man of No Importance
Pride Films and Plays provides an emotionally engaging production of this set-in-Dublin musical.
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All That He Was plucks the heartstrings
A musical about the darkest days of AIDS shows its student-effort roots, but provides a stirring score.
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Now and Then loses its place in time
The stakes are too low in this musical about the life span of a gay relationship.
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For a good time, come all over the dating satire Grindr the Opera
Pride Films and Plays’ new musical gleefully skewers the modern gay-dating scene.
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Desire in a Tinier House is a poetic queer love story—despite the shirtless-boy marketing
It envisions a queer domestic space we don’t normally see onstage.
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Buyer & Cellar explores Barbra Streisand’s (make-believe) basement shopping mall
It’s only pain and darkness there.
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Despite the legally mandated nudity, there’s no happily-ever-after in Afterglow
“No one ever wrote a fairy tale about polyamory!”