"So You Think You Can Drag" Winner Juicy Liu hosts New York Shakespeare Exchange's raucous spin-off of its popular ShakesBEER Pub Crawl -- the re-dubbed ShakesQUEER Pub Crawl -- on Saturday June 4, from 4pm to 7pm.
Blasting out of the Shakespeare canon with classic scenes performed not just in drag but gender-flipped (or otherwise intriguingly queered up) will be Matt Shingledecker ("Wicked" "Spring Awakening"), Vince Gatton (Drama Desk nominee "Candy and Dorothy"), Amy Jo Jackson, Justin R. G. Holcomb, Quincy Ellis, Kim Krane, Eleanor Handley, Nathaniel P. Claridad, and Elizabeth Neptune. The directors are Ross Williams, Carey Van Driest, Cristina Lundy and Kim Crane. The pub-specific and highly interactive crawl makes its way to four Hell's Kitchen bars -- the starting point at Boxers HK, 742 Ninth Avenue, followed by The Gaf, Industry, and Therapy. NYSX's special edition of their community-building, immersive pub crawl benefits NYSX and immigration rights organization Immigration Equality, to support their valuable legal aid services for LGBTQ immigrants, a uniquely cross-challenged community. "ShakesQUEER" brings to new life classic scenes from "Romeo & Juliet," "The Taming of the Shrew," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Henry IV, Part 1," and as a special bonus, a para-sexual "Hamlet."Videos