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Pillion: Most of Us Are Slaves; Some of Us Are Honest About It
Gay men are the vanguard of consumer culture. It’s not just our fondness for fine goods and expensive vacations, the luxury tastemaking that filters down from the A-gays to the bargain bin of the straight world like so many cerulean sweaters. It’s also our willingness...
Did You Not Expect a Traitor to Double-Cross?
The latestest episode of The Traitors went down about as I expected. Lisa Rinna was already wounded when she took the big risk of wearing the amulet and performing a murder in plain sight at the black banquet, a somewhat perverse gathering vaguely inspired by the 1440...
The Traitors, the Ideal Game Show for the Age of Elite Disunity
I’ve heard good things about the Peacock reality competition The Traitors since its debut. Alan Cumming has long been one of my favorite actors (his performance as the Emcee in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret, which I first saw on The Rosie O’Donnell Show, is one...
A New Place for My Thoughts
Welcome to my new blog! If you’re a regular reader of TheaterMania, you’ll know that I write well over 100 reviews a year, and I’m very good at sneaking my opinions on all manner of non-theatrical subjects into them. For this I must thank my magnificently patient...